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From WIP – Queen of the Fireflies

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Cat

Was fiddling this for a writing retreat I’m doing in September. This is from the beginning.
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Teaser: Another Excerpt from A New Board is Elected at Villa Encantada

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Cat

Here’s another chunk from “Elections at Villa Encantada,” a darkly humorous story about a very odd condo complex. It’s been fun filling out the complex’s roster a little in this story, and I’m going back to revise one of the unpublished ones with some of these details. Like the talking cacti.
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Teaser: First Excerpt from A New Board is Elected at Villa Encantada

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Cat

I’ve just started roughing out a new story, “A New Board is Elected at Villa Encantada”. I’ve written several Villa Encantada stories now, including “Eagle-Haunted Lake Sammammish,” “Events at Villa Encantada,” and “The Threadbare Magician.” In this one I’m trying for dark and funny, and thinking it will end at 4-6k words.

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From the current WIP

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Cat

(This is from the yet untitled steampunk-new weird-horror piece which I’m thinking will be the first week’s Writeathon story and which I also think may end up at novelette length.) Doctor Larch has a pet crow named Jonah. He says … Continue reading →

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What I’m Currently Working On

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Cat

The rewrite of the first book, whose tentative working title is Beasts of Tabat, is off to Seth the fabulous agent, so I’ve started messing with the second book. It’s got the love triangle I mentioned in an earlier post, and I’m contemplating the somewhat odd strategy of having it start, chronologically, at a time point somewhere in the middle of the first book, and show some of that action from a different viewpoint. Crazy? Maybe, but I think it’ll be interesting to try.
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Another Teaser From the Glitter & Mayhem Story

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Cat

Summer wound down, and we entered heat-mad August, days of sweat and sunshine, so hot you didn’t really want to move. But somehow, when evening started falling and the air cooled off a little, your energy would return. And sometimes … Continue reading →

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Teaser from the Glitter and Mayhem story

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Cat

I’m finishing up a story for the Glitter and Mayhem anthology, involving the Midwestern town I grew up in and lesbian were-seals. Here’s what may be the opener. Here’s Anna and I all through high school: a geeky Hispanic theater … Continue reading →

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Teaser: The Threadbare Magician

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Cat

Still revamping this, since it insists on struggling from novelette length towards novella. Here you go. Friendly Village loops and winds, tiny roads scattered among the trailers. Every patch of landscaping is different – cacti surrounded one mobile home, followed … Continue reading →

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What I’m Working On

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Cat

I have a couple of stories that were requested, so I’m picking away at those. One’s a military fantasy piece that I’m setting at Hadrian’s Wall, right around the time it was built. Another’s for the Glitter and Madness anthology, and it’s a fun structure I’m playing with, through which a murder gets told, revolving around a lesbian were-seal. I’ve also got some nonfiction stuff.

And if you’re interested in the editing class that starts today, 4-6 PM PST and runs today and two additional Sundays, drop me an e-mail or a comment, because I’ve still got openings. It’s a class that’s useful not just to editors, but to writers wanting to enhance their own self-editing skills. Continue reading →

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Teaser from the Current WIP

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Cat

Honestly, I have no idea what this thing’s title is anymore. But I’ve been working on the beginning today. Some of you will recognize the pov character as the gladiator Bella Kanto, although this is the first time I’ve tried first person with her. I like it. Anyhow, here you go.
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