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Posts Tagged "Lunatic Fringe"

Trick or Treat!!! (Excerpt time!)

Posted on Oct 26, 2010 in Writing | 6 comments

In honor of the awesome and worthy project Book or Treat, I've decided to post a first-ever public excerpt of Lunatic Fringe. I mean, it IS about werewolves, after all. While I was tempted to post part of a sex scene (I mean it IS about lesbians, after all), since this is a family holiday, I'm going to post gore instead. (See what I did there?)

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Ruh-roh

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I will be back tomorrow with a brand-new mini-excerpt from Lunatic Fringe in celebration of BlogorTreat. It will include werewolves. Excited?

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My Infinite Wisdom

Posted on Oct 14, 2010 in Publishing, Writing | 2 comments

The single thing that got me from point A in 2008 when I thought "lesbian werewolves, OMG totally!" to today when I'm combing my prose and switching out unnecessary n-dashes, getting ready to submit to a formal proposal, complete with market research and publicity plans, was to find that story.

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Eviscerate Your Darlings

Posted on Sep 20, 2010 in Publishing, Writing | 0 comments

I've found I'm pretty ruthless at cutting out clever turns of phrase. However, I've run into some major darlings that need themselves a good murderin'. I should have realized at the time, but I made a very silly mistake of switching POV deep into the book.

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Beta Reader Update

Posted on Sep 16, 2010 in Publishing, Writing | 3 comments

For the most part, all my beta readers lived up to my expectations. Everyone liked it, even those who didn't tend to read my genre. I got some really excellent notes from each person. Some notes confirmed my suspicions (sex scenes are too long, feminist dialogue is too didactic) and some of them surprised me (my antagonist is perfectly terrible, places where I thought I was overwriting were actually unclear).

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