Our latest book
Stars Uncharted. Character-oriented space opera. A chase through space. All Nika and Josune want to do is survive, but the Company is after them, and in this universe, the Company always wins.
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Why does everyone have to die?
Spoilers here for Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series. If you don’t want to know how it ends, don’t read on. Well, not so much how it ends, but who survives. Jim Butcher’s first book in the Codex Alera was on sale for US99c (about A$1.50). I bought it, and even though my TBR pile is... Read more →
Bad writing habits
I’m making changes to Stars Beyond, based on our editor’s feedback. A few changes to the first chapter. Well, let’s be honest, more than a few. (It’s okay, not a total rewrite, we did leave some words the same at the end of the chapter.) Sherylyn is following along behind, unmaking half of them. “But... Read more →
The dream versus reality
Where I’d like to be … Where I really am. Sigh. Read more →
How long does it take to write a book?
One piece of writing advice I’ve heard is that if your book takes more than a year to write, then you should dump it and start another one. I can see some merit in a very small part of this, but no, if we dumped our novels after twelve months, we’d have a string of... Read more →
Progress report
We got the edits back for Stars Beyond early this week. The changes our editor asked for weren’t too bad. Although, I have been rereading the story since, and some of the word choices in the first four chapters sound flat. It doesn’t take much to fix. Little tweaks here and there, but I’m relieved... Read more →