Here it is! This week we're back with another familiar character, Eric Latimer, former prince of Huldre and now king. In case you need a wee refresher, Latimer was the incredibly handsome troll pri...
2024-02-16 17:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post
You know how I said last post that I was having a hard time concentrating and finishing what I was reading? Well, it's worse. So that's fun. I'm about to go to Maine to visit friends and family and...
2024-02-08 20:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm behind on the BTLN epilogue because I've been revising another book in the hopes that my agent can sell it. (I'm almost done! Weee!) However, since I didn't want to leave you all high and dry, ...
2024-02-06 20:45:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Cast of Characters from Curses, updated for Gifts (some of these characters may or may not appear, but I thought I'd leave them for now.) Will update as we go.
DuMont Family: 2024-02-06 20:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been having a hard time reading. Wait, that's not entirely accurate--I've had a hard time reading one book and finishing that book. Basically, I've been all over the place. And for the most pa...
2024-01-26 22:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
...We made it to the last chapter? WE MADE IT TO THE LAST CHAPTER! (Except there's an epilogue.) This is a long one for you, too. I'm feeling really weird about closing up Sam's story. Weird, but g...
2024-01-23 01:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I like snow--I was hoping for snow. Instead we got freezing rain, so Smalls has been home from school for two days, which has made working difficult. I'm glad the kid is curious and has lots of que...
2024-01-19 00:33:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finishing up my copy edits today, which means me fussing over small details but also laughing because I've created a book that makes a copy editor have to put in comments like, "I'm assuming th...
2024-01-12 21:12:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I dropped it in the chat earlier (I think you can only access chat on the mobile app of Patreon? Which is weird.) but I wanted to share it here, too. We've got a cover for Red in Tooth and Claw, a ...
2024-01-11 18:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes I get annoyed with my pace and irritated that I don't get these chapters up as fast as I want. Often, though, something happens to remind me that creativity takes time and those waits are...
2024-01-08 21:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently signed up for StoryGraph--I'm not one who usually pays attention to how many books they read in a year (I know it's a lot. I don't need hard numbers.) and I never particularly enjoyed Go...
2024-01-08 00:58:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Should have had this picture up Friday, but I got into a bit of a funk and then it was Man Friend's birthday. But finally, here it is! The picture above is not mine, but one snagged from the intern...
2024-01-01 00:58:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Man Friend dubbed this our "Sad Christmas" not because we are sad, but because our holidays, for various reasons, involved a lot of sad people. It made for a kind of strange holiday, especial...
2023-12-26 20:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on the next Sam chapter, but the holidays have hit hard and my MIL broke her spine, which has thrown a wrench in a lot of things. (She's doing great--had surgery to fuse her spine, is i...
2023-12-24 20:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the holidays, which means I'n buying books for other people (and okay, maybe a few for myself because no one buys me books anymore). Since all I've been reading is Alice Coldbreath's medieval ...
2023-12-15 02:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This image has literally nothing to do with the chapter. However, if you put "possum cowboy" or "opossum cowboy" into shutter stock, you get almost nothing. If you put "raccoon cowboy" for some rea...
2023-12-15 00:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't have a fun theme for this one. Mostly, it's just been great for my brain to be recovering from it's the extended period where it was impersonating a bowl of overcooked pasta. I've been watc...
2023-12-03 00:23:14 +0000 UTC View Post
FINALLY. This chapter took a long time for some reason, and I had to ask Editor Mel if it made any sense when I was done. (I had to edit another thing HAHAHA my brain is tired, friends.) We still h...
2023-12-02 22:46:52 +0000 UTC View Post
(Fair warning, I ramble a lot in this post.)
I write about death a lot. I mean, my first two books were literally about people who could bring them back. Red in Tooth in Claw is a lot about g...
2023-11-22 23:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been pecking away at the next Sam chapter but words have been either slow or nonexistent. I think I killed my brain in October. The last six-seven weeks have been, frankly, brutal. I keep forg...
2023-11-22 22:39:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Editor Mel actually got this back to me on Saturday and usually I get it out the same day, but I got sick for the first time in like four years. Mel has also stated that, with the schedule and work...
2023-11-06 23:20:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week was honestly the busiest week ever. It looked like this:
Monday: Edit 80 pages, go see Suzie Izzard with my mom (our birthday presents to ourselves)
Tuesday: Edit 120 pages, t...
2023-11-02 23:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Editing is eating my brain and I'm still super behind. Wee? Wee. But I needed to write something fun to get my brain back on track, and since I didn't feel up to working on a whole chapter, I figur...
2023-10-20 20:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been deep in the edits for my next YA, Red in Tooth and Claw which are due in...nine days. *winces*
I'm trying really hard not to think about it. It's a tight turn around deadline-wise, ...
2023-10-10 00:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This last week involved me driving a lot (12 hours en toto, I think?) to visit friends and get to my book event in Portland, which was a lot of fun. (Special shout out to Patron Kat, who c...
2023-10-08 22:08:56 +0000 UTC View PostI got slammed with a bunch of edits due ASAP last week, plus moving my MIL out of her house. (HAHAHAHA, she has so much stuff. It's a nightmare. She's lovely, but this is going to be exhausting.) A...
2023-10-03 20:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post
You've all been so patient, thank you! I've been freakishly inundated with work lately and every time I clear off my plate, more lands. Oof.
Happy Friday, friends!
--Lish
2023-09-22 21:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I had to drive 4 hours to an event last weekend. Driving from where I live to the tricities area of Washington is long, but a fairly straightforward drive and quite pretty in some places.
Unl...
2023-09-19 19:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It was my birthday! I told one my of friends I was "eld" and she said, "eldritch?" and that's my new favorite way to describe myself. I am becoming the eldritch being I deserve to be.
B...
2023-09-14 02:55:21 +0000 UTC View PostI do have an image for this one, but I'm posting it from a boat and it won't upload! I'll repost it later. Until then, enjoy!
2023-08-28 04:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post