Author Archive
Friday, August 15th, 2008
How Not to Sell a Book
ost people sell because they write a great book, write an awesome query, and then land an agent and an editor. Now, I won’t say anything about the book (at least not now), but I sold because I can’t write queries.
This is the story of how that happened.
After literally months of struggling with a […]
33 Comments » - Posted in publishing by CM
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Pele pictures!
ook, it’s a puppy! Most of the pictures go after the jump so that those who are uninterested in puppies do not need to observe. Many thanks to all my wonderful friends who threw me a puppy shower in San Francisco. It was the last thing I expected at RWA–and as you can see, […]
21 Comments » - Posted in fur by CM
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
First sale!
uppy pictures will follow soon–but I wanted to announce here that my awesome agent, Kristin Nelson, has just finished my sale to HQN at auction. PROOF BY SEDUCTION will be released in Fall of 2009, and the second book–still working on that one–will follow shortly.
I will have a longer post–with all the many […]
23 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, publishing by CM
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Tuesday!
ight now, the only thing I can think about is next Tuesday at 11 AM central. For years and years–since I was barely eight years old–I have dreamed of getting a dog. My very own doggy–not one shared by brothers and sisters, but MY dog. But I have also tried to be […]
12 Comments » - Posted in fur by CM
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Delicious Release
hether you are traveling to Nationals or staying at home, there is something you should do today.
Yes, you.
Go to your store. Go to Amazon. Go anywhere that sells awesome books, and buy one of the best historicals available. That would be, for those of you who don’t know yet, Sherry Thomas’s incredible Delicious. I was […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Reviews, Romancery by CM
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Movie Logline Pitch
s conference rears its mighty head in the not-too-distant future (days?! When did it become mere days away?), loops and blogs have gone haywire as people practice pitches. There are the short-paragraph pitches, designed to capture the conflict in the book and boil it down to its essence. There are single sentence pitches. And then […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Contest, Ornithology, Random by CM
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My Workshop!
‘ve been meaning to flog my workshop–uh, I mean, tell you how much you really want to go to my workshop at the Beaumonde/Hearts through History conference on July 30th.
It’s entitled Women, Property, and Personhood (not the title that’s showing up on the Conference List), and it’s a short look at the legal development of […]
8 Comments » - Posted in History, Legalese, Workshops by CM
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Huzzah!
y good friend and sometime CP Sara Lindsey just sold her debut novel, Promise Me Always. This is just in time for her to get a pretty pink ribbon at Nationals (and to accept a lot of drinks from those of us who are buying).
NAL is going to publish her trilogy in 2010. […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Friends, Writing by CM
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
oday, I was forced to think about methods of authentication. I have a scene or two in my book in which my heroine heads to a bank to make a withdrawal from an account. When I originally wrote them, I did a little bit of research to see where banks were and what […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Random, Reading, Real Life by CM
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Perfect Books
don’t demand perfection from my books; I read because there are enough truly magical books–transportive and transcendent–out there that one out of ten or twenty really rocks my world. At the rate that I read, that means I get one or two a month. And of the books that don’t hit the magical mark, […]
