Xandra | October 3, 2006
Something beautiful happens to a book when it gets a cover. Cover art is often the last thing on a book’s production cycle, and if not the very last, then at least it becomes the point of critical mass, where a book goes from the potential of a manuscript to the reality of a [...]
Xandra | July 12, 2006
I love starting out new stuff. It’s dangerous, in that I can easily fall into building new worlds and starting new stories only to never quite get around to finishing them (an ugly, all-too-common habit of many, many writers). But in this case, it’s okay. It means I’ve got fodder.
I started building [...]
Xandra | June 22, 2006
If you’re a writer, what’s your writing process like? Do you write, and pronounce it golden, having plotted out, hashed and rehashed your ideas before typing “Chapter One?” Or do you start from some arbitrary point and write whatever emerges from your subconscious, and then when the dust settles, you tear it apart, [...]
