Bob says we’re not going to talk about this book while we’re writing it.
So forget the demons, the succubus, the pizza delivery hooker, Dreamland, Albert, Mary Imogen, Ethan, Screamland, and any anything else you’ve already read on either of our blogs. Wipe it from your mind.
I already have.
Oh, and my notes […]

I’m in a motel with internet access that is lousy. Therefore this will be fast.
I emptied the coffee strainer.
We drove for ten hours. Bob said, “We could have made it in nine if we hadn’t stopped to eat and go to the bathroom.”
Bob spent the time I was driving playing […]

I caved on the demons. But no soul-eating.
Veronica and Bob regarded each other with deep suspicion upon meeting and avoided each other after that. Milton follows Bob around like a . . . well, a puppy. I can’t keep him out of the upstairs. Bob sat with Lucy on his lap […]

I’ve been obsessed with this Liz Danger stuff, probably because I’m at the point in my real book where I want to club it over the head and make it go away, but I can’t let go of it until it’s done. I’d almost rather clean the house than work on it. Almost. […]

And thank you all very much.
I didn’t want to use a color twice but I did anyway because I had such good covers for Blue Blood and Blue Suede Shoots. So Rosie just uses blue twice. And the last one had to be called Bet On Black for story purposes, so even though […]

So I’m thinking about a new book, REALLY far down the road because I have four I have to do first, but it’s about this mystery writer. She’s had some success writing a series about a character whose name I do not have yet, but she’s done twelve now and she’s ready to scream. […]

This is the 12th Day of Shar and I’ve actually gotten a lot done. This is the first time the 12 Days thing actually worked–well, it worked pretty well cleaning my office–and I think it’s collaborating that really makes the difference. As long as we give ourselves lots of space, we can really […]

Lani posted her first scene for Act Three and made me applaud. It’s so sad how much she needs reinforcement. Krissie printed out the book and did rewrites on hard copy which makes a huge difference. I’m trying to hold off on the hard copy edit until we have the whole book […]

You know, I worked all day and I don’t think I got anything done. Well, some laundry and I went to the grocery, but I didn’t write anything. I did do a lot of research on Mesopotamian kings and death, but I fell asleep and lost the afternoon. Just a weird day.
But […]

After patting each other on the back for the good job the three of us did on the first two acts, Krissie had to go out–and where she lives that means out–so Lani and I brainstormed for three solid hours in Campfire, doing the act arcs of Shar, Sam, Daisy, and Jamie.
It’s an easy concept: […]