This morning, I checked my author contact email and found three new messages. One was spam delivered through the contact form — a daily occurrence — but two of them were query letter replies from agents. I sent my latest batch of queries out just over a week ago, so it wasn’t a surprise to…
In this third installment of the only series I seem able to actually keep up with on this blog (you can catch up on the others here), I’ll be sharing my thoughts for the first time on a recently published work. As part of my continuing effort to immerse myself in the genre I intend…
I didn’t do any writing last month, so I thought this would be a good time to greet the new year by just sort of generally putting my thoughts in order on everything I’m doing. Writing Stuff The Shadow of the Ruin trilogy is complete. This latest rewrite was the final one I’m going to…
I ended my October roundup by reporting that I’m getting ready to begin a fresh set of queries, and that’s where I still am. My last querying experience (2019) did not go very well — I received very little in the way of replies at all, and those that I did receive were rejections —…
There’s not a lot to report in terms of writing from the month of October 2022. I spent the middle of the month traveling for my photography (www.dylanleesphotography.com), visiting the Pacific Northwest regions of Columbia River Gorge and Mount Rainer National Park. I love the Pacific Northwest, and felt rested and inspired as I stood…
There wasn’t a giant amount of actual writing that took place in September: rather, I spent pretty much the whole month (minus one weekend where I flew to Florida to compete in electric karts) doing editing and revisions on the second and third volumes of my (still untitled) trilogy to bring them into line with…
First off, I didn’t get around to posting the new Writer Reaction I had planned. Since the book in question is part of a series, I’m just going to wait until I’ve read the second volume and react to both, while pretending this was my plan all along… On the subject of my primary writing…
After a slow month in June, I was mostly back on schedule in the month of July. I took a few days off to compete in the iRacing 24 Hours of Spa (we finished 7th, but had a disconnect that cost us a potential win), but otherwise I didn’t miss more than one day in…
June was a pretty slow month, so it’s fitting that I’m getting to it so late. I only managed to get in four productive days of writing in the month of June. I traveled in the middle of the month (Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal!), and after returning I sort of took the last week…
Writer Reaction: The Kingkiller Chronicle
This is the second installment of the series I started back in May (you can see the first one here, covering Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy). I view it as an important part of any writer’s job to keep up with their genre, and that’s how I came up with the idea of reacting to…
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