Dear BDH, We love you thiiiiiiis much. Please stop offering to hire mafia hitmen. Also, please do not perform rituals cursing the unnamed paint contractors. That is not good for you. We had to lock the comments. Love, Your Hosts. In the end, it’s paint. Yes, it sucks, but it’s only paint. It can be
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I Wish We Hadn’t Done This
A month ago we decided to renovate the house. We needed to resurface 25 years old pool, which was leaking, we needed to replace an upstairs rail, which was not to code, and we needed to put texture and new paint on the walls. Our house started out as a builder house, constructed as the
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The Secret Formula
I asked in the last book (and I will keep asking till I get an swer) House Andrews or the mod. Please please what do I need to research on to get good understanding on how to develop such complex unique worlds and beings? I have narrowed it down to Xenobiology, Evolution and anthropology. Am
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Quiz: Name that thing
Things I was supposed to do today: get up early, work out, write like the wind. Things I accomplished today so far: I made a cup of tea. RUBY FEVER is going into proofread, and I need to handle that too, but I do not have the energy. I think all of my stress decided
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On Follow Up Questions, Unexpected Nature Of
“We both want to work at our own pace and take our time. We don’t want the stress of not meeting a deadline. If we don’t meet one, nobody has to know. When things are ready to be published, they will be up on the Release Schedule. We will announce them on the blog and
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On Being Difficult
When you start out in traditional publishing, you are very eager. You’ve heard rumors about this other Big Name Author who is “difficult” and is “a bitch” and you don’t want to be difficult. Then you gain experience and realize that bringing a story from the manuscript to the book isn’t the smooth road you
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The Problem of Publishing
Didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, so let’s hope I will make sense. Can you explain how the publishing industry has changed in the past two years? I keep hearing about problems and issues and I don’t understand what’s going on (except the obvious toll on authors, but that doesn’t seem to be
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Guilt Free
When I was a child, Christmas holidays were magic. It was New Year rather than Christmas in USSR, but everything about it was the same. Snow would start falling in the second half of December, and my Dad would bring home a Christmas tree, and I would be so excited. I was also born on
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Things!
We have fun news. If all goes well, we should have some free fiction available for you on the blog soon, hopefully before the month’s end. We’ve received edits for Ruby Fever. They are extensive, as we expected, so Ruby Fever will be ready for the beta read in late January/ early February. We also
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Earning Out and Other Questions
Mod R has sent over November blog prompts. We will be starting with some industry questions. Why do they pay celebrities these giant book advances? They can’t earn out. You don’t have to earn out to be profitable for the publisher. We’ve covered this before, but a quick refresher, so you don’t have to flip
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Writers After Finishing a Draft
This will only be funny if you a gamer. We are trying to get some leisure in after finishing Ruby Fever with mixed results. We are very fuzzy right now. That would be a neat trick Gordon is playing Might and Magic VI, an old remastered RPG. He is stuck in the Mire of the
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Talent
I promised Mod R this post. Talent, what is it, why is it, how much does it matter in writing? Short answer: I don’t know. Longer answer: I think talent exists. The exact definition of it is harder to nail down. When I wrote my first novel in Russian – I was 14 and I
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