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December 7th 2007
Has Plot, Can Pants
I’m working on a middle-grade traditional fantasy. I wrote the entire outline (a habit that my adult paranormal editor got me into, damn him), so it’s really a matter of connecting the dots to write the first draft. But even with the plot laid out in front of me in neat rows, sometimes the most [...]
November 7th 2007
The Cipher is released
So yesterday, actually, my latest book The Cipher was released. I can’t tell you how much fun this book was to write. I wanted rompy, fun adventure and I think I nailed it. It’s getting fabulous reviews and I couldn’t be happier about it. But. Well, you knew there had to be a but, right? [...]
October 17th 2007
I am back in highschool
Okay, not really. But it feels like I’m a 16-year-old goober waiting by the phone for a prom date to call (because, yanno, I couldn’t have the boobs to call some guy myself.) So anyhow, the problem is my next book, The Cipher, comes out on November 6th. Why does that make me feel like [...]
August 31st 2007
Something Clever or What I Usually Name My Novel
Do you know my least favorite part of writing? I mean, besides the sitting on my butt for hours on end trying to rub two synapses together long enough to have a coherent and interesting thought? Titles. I hate having to come up with titles. In fact, I’ve never successfully come up with a title [...]
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Diana Pharaoh Francis
Diana Pharaoh Francis has written the fantasy novel trilogy that includes Path of Fate, Path of Honor and Path of Blood. Path of Fate was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Recently released was The Turning Tide, third in her Crosspointe Chronicles series (look also for The Cipher and The Black Ship). In October 2009, look for Bitter Night, a contemporary fantasy. Diana teaches in the English Department at the University of Montana Western, and is an avid lover of all things chocolate. Visit site.
Diana Pharaoh Francis
Diana Pharaoh Francis has written the fantasy novel trilogy that includes Path of Fate, Path of Honor and Path of Blood. Path of Fate was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Recently released was The Turning Tide, third in her Crosspointe Chronicles series (look also for The Cipher and The Black Ship). In October 2009, look for Bitter Night, a contemporary fantasy. Diana teaches in the English Department at the University of Montana Western, and is an avid lover of all things chocolate. Visit site.
Lyda Morehouse
Lyda Morehouse is the author of the science fiction AngeLINK series. She's won the Shamus and the Philip K. Dick Special Citation for Excellence (aka 2nd place). Her books have also been nominated for the Romantic Times Critics' Choice and preliminary Nebula ballot. She lives in the deep-freeze of Saint Paul, MN with her partner of twenty-odd years, their son, and lots and lots of cats (and fish!) Visit site.
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