Writing a smashing good jacket blurb, or, How to Talk About Your Book At Parties.
Category: Warden of the Lost Way
In Due Time
Things are quiet here at The Lost Way, and not only because the world outside has been immobilized by a crippling ice storm. The silence has arisen from my deliberately withholding the new content I've been working on, in anticipation of 'opening day', if you will.
Updates from the Writing Desk
Looking back at my last post, I realize now that I chose a poor place to leave my blog hanging. I could have at least written, drums, drums in the deep. They are coming. Or perhaps in the Castle of Aaargh! But at the time I had other concerns...
Where The Work Happens
NaNoWriMo Day 15. Novel Day... well, that's a tough one to peg down. I've been working more or less full-time on Warden of the Lost Way since August of 2015. Back then I was still calling it The Maiden War, but even then I wouldn't have called it the beginning. I wrote the novel's first words on January … Continue reading Where The Work Happens
NaNo Gets Underway
If nothing else, participation in NaNoWriMo has motivated me to create a public face for this book, in the form of a cover and synopsis. For the cover I chose a sketch that I created earlier this year. I'm rather fond of it. And while it does not specifically illustrate any part of the story per se, it does symbolize a number of themes and concepts that underpin much of what I've written. Just what those themes are I will keep under my cap, but I present the cover itself for your contemplation.