Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Pirates are “go”!
So, have you enjoyed our little break from All Things Laurie? Or did going cold turkey disturb your world too much? I hadn’t actually intended quite such a long break without Muttering at you, but it took me nearly a month after getting home from Portugal/Morocco/France/England/book tour to get my life in some kind of…
Read MoreWriting a god
The God of the Hive was not the book’s original title. My working title (and I won’t be giving any spoilers in this post, so don’t worry) was The Green Man, but how we got from one to the other makes for a long and complicated explanation that is best boiled down to: My editor…
Read MoreThe Language of Bees (cont.)
This is the final Tuesday of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and (appropriately) continues last week’s post concerning the nineteenth novel. However, I shall be putting up a bonus post next week on The God of the Hive, entitled, “Writing a god into being.” You might want to read the book first… The first Russell…
Read MoreThe Language of Bees
This is the nineteenth Tuesday of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, when I post remarks about the writing process of a different book each week. This week we’re up to the 2009 title, The Language of Bees. One of the drawbacks of writing a series, especially for those of us writers who have a low…
Read MoreGod of the Hive, day one
Today is publication day for The God of the Hive. More than a year of labor from a lot of people, beginning with the author and going through a dozen departments in Random House, branching through a whole bunch of fabulous and committed volunteers who just love the books, the source of worry and the…
Read MoreTouchstone
Each Tuesday during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I post about a different one of my twenty novels, giving some bit of insight about the process of writing that particular book. This is week eighteen, so we’re talking about Touchstone, published in 2007. It’s called intuition, or ESP, or lucky guess. Malcolm Gladwell calls it…
Read MoreThe Art of Detection
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I post about a different one of my twenty novels, talking about how I came to write that book. This week, The Art of Detection, published in 2006 and winner of the Lambda Award. meets Sitting in a BoucherCon hotel suite with my editor, talking about…
Read MoreLocked Rooms
Each Tuesday of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my books, with remarks, reflections, and bits of information about how the book came to be. This week I discuss Locked Rooms, published in 2005. It started with a dream. I was giving a tour of a house—my house,…
Read MoreForeign airs
So the way it started was, last year I had a conference in Hawaii and my family badly needed a break, too, so I flew them out for ten days following my conference, even though I had a book I needed to work on. I told them—I told myself—that I would be working on the…
Read MoreCalifia’s Daughters, by “Leigh Richards”
Each Tuesday during our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’m posting about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about writing it. I’ll be discussing Califia’s Daughters this week, which was published as Leigh Richards in 2004. A lot of crime writers start out in the science fiction realm.…
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