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I was going to put this behind a cut, but then I realized I didn't have to as there is nothing resembling a spoiler.

What follows are what are very likely to be the first four lines of Crossroads 4 (although I'm not specifically writing it at the moment).

"The lad has been nothing but trouble from the day he could walk. That’s why we sent him to apprentice at the temple. We hoped the gods’ discipline might make him less rash and restless. But you can see how that turned out."

I write fantasy and science fiction novels. I tend to write epic in length and scope, and would call myself a writer of Epic Fantasy.

Many have attempted to define “epic fantasy” as a subgenre, most recently in this extensive roundtable at Clarkesworld Magazine. Obviously I am not one who agrees with those who dismiss epic fantasy as “consolatory fantasy” or the last great hope and refuge of reactionaries secretly in love with the aristocratic system. I think epic fantasy ought to defy definition. Certainly, I see a great many differing sorts of “epic” being written, especially these days as I see a more diverse group of writers emerging who are playing with the landscape of epic.

With the understanding that I don’t identify one pure and true definition, or think that epic fantasy can or should be boiled down to one thing, I do rather like Adam Whitehead’s (The Wertzone) discussion of epic fantasy being an examination of power.

He writes: "At its root, a lot of the subgenre seems to be about the possession and distribution of power and authority, whether that is power over a family, another person, a business, a religion, a kingdom, an empire or a whole world. The clash of those people with different agendas seeking (or avoiding) power drives many works in the subgenre." [His entire post is well worth reading]

I consistently examine power and authority in my novels. One element in the “possession and distribution of power and authority” across the centuries is the predilection of human groups to engage in armed conflict and warfare to achieve their aims. Another is the way in which hierarchy supports entrenched power and in what circumstances entrenched power structures are overthrown or destabilized. Most of these societies historically are patriarchal, which I will simplistically define here as societies in which legally and by custom men have a superior societal position to women purely because of perceived or created gender hierarchies.

Like most people, I really don’t like to read about rape.

I tend to dislike when sexual violence is portrayed as a vehicle through which the female protagonist becomes scarred and/or stronger because she survives it, or when a rape victim “just gets over it” almost as quickly as if she had stubbed her toe.

I get tired of depictions of rape being endemic in much epic fantasy even though I myself argue in this post that there is a reason for its inclusion. I suspect my dislike stems from much of the sexual violence in epic fantasy being seen through a male gaze. While this can in theory and occasionally in practice be done well and realistically, it tends to define the victim as the object of rape rather than the subject of rape, which for me is a crucial distinction in terms of seeing women (especially) as people rather than as plot tools or sexual receptacles.

Obviously, men can be raped too, although I see such depictions far less often and am more likely to notice points where the writers chose, say, to beat up men rather than rape them (as in Battlestar Galactica the Reboot) whereas in a similar situation female characters would have been raped. I confess: I’m guilty of making this choice myself.

Despite my dislike and my unease, however, for me to write about war, slavery, and entrenched hierarchies maintaining their power and NOT to include how rape figures into that cycle and those institutions is to look away from, to make invisible, the horrifically real experiences of both living and long-dead people.

This doesn’t mean I feel I have to or want to write about rape in every story I tell.

I don’t, and I won’t.

But when I’m writing about war and hierarchy, I feel I can’t ignore the reality of how rape is used as a form of social and gender control, of terror in war, as a human rights violation in the specific context of war and armed conflict (something people are still struggling to get rape defined as), or simply unthinkingly in the dehumanizing shackles of slavery, where a person’s body is property to be used as the owner wishes.

Rape remains persistent in most cultures, unfortunately, and as always the most powerless are most at risk.

Shadow Gate, the middle novel of the Crossroads Trilogy, deals in part specifically with rape as a tool of oppression and social breakdown. It’s a grim book. I was driven in part by current events, the truly awful and heart-rending reports from regions broken down by civil war like the Balkans and the Congo. I can’t bear to look away from these truths because they are so bitter and because we have too often shamed the victims, not the perpetrators or a system that leaves such perpetrators in power or lets them go unpunished.

The story of Liath in Crown of Stars begins with her inability to escape from debt slavery and the attentions of a man who intends to control her and her burgeoning power. I based my portrayal of the man in question, Hugh of Austra, in part on an account of an abusive, controlling husband whose behavior one of my sisters had witnessed because the wife in question was an acquaintance of hers.

I have on occasion been taken to task for writing about rape. It has been suggested or implied that I have written the story the way I do for the cheap dramatic punch rather than because I have something to say about the way hierarchies oppress those without the power base of kinship or wealth to protect themselves, or the ways in which people look the other way when abuse is going on because the structure of society protects the abuser, not the abused.

I posit that it is exactly this degree of assumptive judgment--the assumption that there can be nothing but lurid and shallow dramatic consideration behind such a choice--that is part of what creates lesser visibility for female writers in the field.

For one: Why are the larger thematic and analytical elements within the story ignored so easily in favor of seeing the shallowest level?

For two: Why should these stories remain invisible?

I think we can’t get past the disjunction, the privileging of the male gaze and the unrelentingly patriarchal male vision of so much epic fantasy (not to mention other literatures as well as the visual media) when it comes to the portrayal of women and sexual violence, until the uncomfortable stories told from the women's perspective are seen as important and worthwhile and not as offensive or whiny or trivial.

With Liath in Crown of Stars, with Kirit/Kirya and the unnamed women in Shadow Gate, I am in part trying to give visibility to experiences we would prefer to look away from especially as we--and we do--glorify the nobility of war and warriors and the inevitability of violent conflict.

But I’m also trying to suggest that what has happened to these women (and children) is part of the fabric of the societies in which they live and therefore only one part of their greater lives as human beings. That is, the rape is not the story nor does it define them. Their suffering is not The Story. It is part of their story. It is something that happens to them, and there are reasons it happens and reasons it should never have happened in a more just world, the world they don’t live in which is also the world we don’t live in but which maybe we strive to move toward.

ETA: I wanted to add this link (via

fjm on Rape as a weapon of war against men [warning: graphic and disturbing] and how rape of men is also used as a weapon of war and why it is so rarely discussed.

For some reason, I find these word clouds utterly fascinating.

Here's the word cloud for Traitors' Gate.

Hope springs eternal. Mostly.

If I had infinite energy and time, here’s what I would accomplish in 2011:

Spiritwalker:

-- Revise Cold Fire. Followed by copy edits and page proofs. Publication in September (mass market of Cold Magic available in August).
-- Draft Cold Steel (and preferably a first draft shorter than Cold Fire's first draft).
-- Make a decent North American/Caribbean Basin map for this Earth.
-- Write a novelette from the point of view of Bee (which would need illustrations).
-- Write up excerpts of journal entries by Daniel Hassi Barahal.

Crossroads:

-- Finish a draft of Crossroads 4
(I’ve written 45,000 words, but the story needs some re-visioning because the 45,000 words I’ve written constitute perhaps one quarter of the story and possibly less, so obviously I need to rethink how I’m approaching it)

Crown of Stars Universe proposal:

Write up a proposal for a short trilogy (<==don’t laugh!) set in the Crown of Stars universe, possibly with a YA focus, set 450 years after the events of the septology.

Jaran Universe:

Sketch out more of the “political” (as opposed to emotional) plot for Jaran #5 in preparation for actually writing it.

Research: A ton.

Read more fiction, by wasting less time online.

Posts:
I have a set of posts I’m working on, surrounding issues of craft and the writing process, that I would like to complete and post throughout the first half of the year together with, I hope, a dedicated blog that will be mirrored on lj.

Travel to Spain in October (for research for Cold Steel).
(I had hoped to make a short trip to the Dominican Republic this month--January--but other necessary things have eaten my time and $$ and so this will not, unfortunately, be happening.)

That’s all, but only because I’m not even touching on any potential new projects, of which there are always some churning in my head, including a side project set in the Cold Magic universe.

The chances I can manage all the above are, as we say, slim to none.

As part of my year end effort to organize myself for the big push next year, which will involve revising one very long novel and writing two others (if I can manage it, which I kind of doubt, but hope springs eternal), I am re-organizing files and folders within my Work folder.

I found this partial of a (as yet unposted) post, which I quote here in full:

another stroll along the writing process

I have two minor characters, let’s call them A & B, one of whom is going to have to die. I’m having a spot of trouble choosing which one.

I have had an extended minor plot line in mind for A, which will be cut short, to say the least, if he gets offed now. However, if I kill B, who at this point is a fairly minor spear-carrier character, then a somewhat more important minor character, C, will be truly grieving, and I don’t want to deal with that character’s grief at the moment as I have too many other fish to fry.

Therefore, and because his death actually fits the inevitability of the situation better, I fear that A is about to cross the divide. Which is too bad, because he was going to be so useful in the other minor plot I had in mind, which cannot function in the way I had planned, without him.

So it goes, another day in the writer’s life.

Back again in Dec 2010, I note that this was last saved in January 07. I have NO IDEA which two characters I am talking about, but I think I must have been writing Shadow Gate at the time. There are two obvious people it could have been, but at this remove I am not sure it entirely fits them because for the life of me I can't recall what the "extended minor plot line" was, to which I refer.

I can keep a lot of information in my head about my books, but I do find that once I have completed revisions and sent the book off into the cold cruel world, I tend to forget a lot of the twists and turns that went into creating it.

It's amusing, though, to read this entirely out of context, and to wonder what else I had intended to write on this venerable theme.

Hungarian SFMag features a review of the Crossroads Trilogy.

It appears to be a positive review of the trilogy, as far as I can determine from running the page through Google Translate. Which is a translation feature that only goes so far, as you may imagine.

Because Google Translate (Hungarian to English) also includes puzzling lines like: Bones are found only in a white shroud screws and The Commissioner had a stroke (which as a sentence makes sense but does not make sense in the context of the story).

Still, I'm quite thrilled to get a review in Hungarian.

And I'm pretty impressed that Google Translate even exists, however inaccurate and amusing it may be.

I have gotten many emails in the last six months asking about the availability of Traitors' Gate on Kindle.

It is now available on that platform, together with the first two volumes of the Crossroads Trilogy, Spirit Gate and Shadow Gate.

Because I hit a roadblock about 2/3rds or 3/4rds of the way through COLD FIRE (not sure of length yet), I was forced to go back and do a revision from the beginning forward to make sure my ducks were all in a row.

Interestingly, I have done nothing major structurally, just detail and set up work. So this either means I am totally on the right track, or else I am headed for a hugely major rewrite. Who knows? Me, at this stage, I know nothing. And the only person who has read the first draft (partial, since it is not finished yet) is Twin A, who points out that he is biased in favor of enjoying it no matter what, so he can't guarantee it's actually good. (I trained my children to be critical--not negatively so, but constructively so. They're actually pretty good, if I must say so myself.)

So I have nothing new and interesting to say, nor have I a single interesting question to ask at the moment nor discussion to open.

Therefore, behind the cut, you will find links to a number of reviews, if you find such things of interest. If not, then feel free to just move along, nothing to see here . . .

( Reviews behind the cut. )

Sometimes my mind becomes so full of thoughts churning away that I stop reading fiction because there is no space for it**. I stop posting because I have too many posts I want to write that I can't settle on starting with one, and after all you have to start with one. You have to start somewhere.

I am working on Cold Magic #2, currently titled Cold Fire (as Cold Steel is now being saved for book 3), and it is going so well that it is almost impossible to start writing each day because my head is surging with images and scenes. Also, quite honestly, the plot has catapulted me into a landscape whose contours I am so supremely not knowledgeable about, and which is so complex (and politically charged) that I could never be knowledgeable enough about it, that all I can do is shake my head over the paths my daemon (I don't have a muse; I have a daemon because, I gotta tell you, he is one hot dude) drags me down and be grateful that my protagonist will be traveling through these climes as a foreigner and know that at least I am not writing historical fiction but a form of alt-history which I am calling "Earth in a different universe." Never a dull moment. It's also why I love writing. And hate writing. And love writing.

A couple of weeks ago I had hit what I call mid-book slump.

Let me digress a moment, although this digression should be its own post.

When I talk about writing, I talk in a code that other writers understand but which people who don't write may not always understand.

When I say "I wrote two crap scenes today" I don't mean that I don't take my writing seriously, or that I am not taking the particular book seriously that I am referring to. I take every word I write very seriously, and every book I write seriously, and I never do less than my best. Besides that I do feel I owe the readers my best work, quite honestly I can’t bear not to do my best no matter what because that is how I am wired. I am very self competitive, as it were. As long as I know I have given it everything I have to give, I can live with the outcome. I may and always do hope to improve, but the moment, in the moment, I can nod, accept that I’ve done the best I can, and move forward.

What I mean when I say “I wrote two crap scenes today” is that the words don't look good to me at the moment, or that I am in a period of doubt about whether anything I write is good and so it all looks bad, or it may even be that the scenes aren't particularly good but are more or less placeholders that I have to get down in order to move forward and to which I will come back and fix/trim/rewrite/sharpen once I have finished the first draft or gotten a better handle on what needs to be in them. And etc and so on.

These ways of looking at my own writing are so predictable that if I stomp into the kitchen and say to my spouse, "oh gosh, this book is awful; it is simply unworkable, and I think this time I have finally lost my ability to write" he will usually say: "Oh, are you 2/3rds of the way through?" To which I will reply, in vast surprise, "Why, yes, how did you know?" and he will say, "because that's what you say every time."

Every damn time. Seriously.

So, when I say I had hit mid-book slump what I mean is this: after my usual struggles getting started on Cold Fire (agonizing), and then hitting my stride through a long opening sequence as the overall shape of the plot began slowly to cohere, I had hit that place in the middle where I knew what I had to do over these 2 or 3 transitional scenes that are of crucial importance to the plot but which I would not be able to fully fill in at the depths I wanted until later in the writing process due to the way I work. So I hit a kind of sag where my mind began wandering. I had my little demi-outline of the three scenes and what they needed to do and snippets of dialogue fit in and comments to myself about background and description to heighten tension blah blah blah . . . . stare at the wall . . . . god, when can my character have sex already? . . . . gee, any new reviews online? no, no, of course not I am already consigned to the trash heap of history . . . oh, wait, I have to make sure that Character X still has her knife . . . did I fold that laundry?

Two things happened. A friend of mine, here in Hawaii, had just read the Jaran books. And Desert Book Chick reviewed Jaran (I've already linked to this post twice, so just for you, I have linked to it again). The confluence of these two things caused me to develop a sudden powerful urge to re-read a bit of The Sword of Heaven (published as the two-parter An Earthly Crown and His Conquering Sword) which led to me re-reading parts of The Law of Becoming.

And my brain . . . well, she didn't explode so much as just start upwelling on a particular plot line that I have long planned but not thought about much.

Now, I have to tell you, that as I go into detail in this post over here, there are economic and professional reasons I have not yet written Jaran #5. This is my job, not a hobby. If you want those details, read that post.

But the dirty secret that I don’t share, because honestly there’s a lot in my thoughts I don’t share because it’s really no one’s business but my own, is that the Other Reason I have not pushed harder about writing Jaran #5 is because of a major plot problem on which I was Stuck. And not just kind of Stuck, but Major Stuck. Literally, a situation I did not know how to resolve. And it was so major I couldn’t skate around it. It had to be dealt with.

That Stuck Plot Issue was not the plot line that started upwelling. That was another plot line entirely. And for four days my brain did nothing but spew forth (not meaning this to sound like the horrific Gulf oil disaster, but unfortunately everything reminds me of that these days) scenes, dialogue, and back-story for one of the major plot lines that would be present in Jaran #5.

I gave up trying to work on Cold Fire. Sometimes you just have to let go.

I wrote twenty five pages of single spaced notes on the plot line in question, and a peculiar thing happened. When I had worked through that plot line, its resolution solved the Stuck Plot Issue. I can’t tell you how (because it would constitute a spoiler), but it was the oddest damn thing and yet, I see now, inevitable both in terms of the plot and in terms of the characters.

I thought: Whoa. I can write Jaran #5 now. Working title: The Game of Princes.

Well, I can write it after I’ve finished the Spiritwalker Trilogy, and completed Crossroads #4 (of which I have about 45,000 words written but whose plot spine isn’t quite straight enough yet; once it is, Crossroads #4 should be a piece of cake to write). But I now know how to write Jaran #5.

How bizarrely the mind works.

Because after the upwelling slowed down, and I could step back from my compulsive and obsessive thinking on that one plot line, I turned around and sat down in front of Cold Fire, and the mid-book slump had vanished. I charged right back in, got to the turnover (that’s a plot turnover, not an apple turnover) and the transition, and so onward.

I mean, I’m now stumbling forward into a landscape I don’t know, but what the heck. To some degree, I’m always writing into a landscape I don’t know because to some degree, as I hope this long post has made clear, it is the way I work. I can see the path, or part of the path, or glimpses of the path, but each twist and turn and ridge and hollow can still bring me to an entirely unexpected vista. This is thing that makes writing deadly awful to suffer through and yet also like being transported into an altered and ecstatic frame of mind. I mean, besides the dull, slogging mud-sticking-to-your-shoes parts in between the two extremes, which is also part of the day to day routine of writing.

Yesterday I managed to get a shark and a zombie in the same scene. Maybe today I can finally get to a scene with some sex.

** except the one book I’m reading as a beta reader!

Because I received so many entries, including one third of the total from outside the USA, I decided to choose 3 winners: 2 from the USA and 1 from outside the USA.

Each winner will receive a signed set of the Tor Books paperbacks of the Crossroads Trilogy.

And the winners (chosen by random draw) are:

Evan E of Canada
(hmm, a Canadian won the Traitors' Gate Advance Reading Copy contest . . . I wonder if it is a conspiracy, or if Canadians are just fortunate).

Katrina K of Pennsylvania

Susan R of Colorado

Congrats to the winners!

Next month I will be holding several contests to win advanced reading copies of Cold Magic (due for publication Sept 2010).

Look for the first contest in mid-May.

CONTEST! GIVEAWAY!

The winner will receive a complete (signed and personalized if you wish) set of the Tor Books (USA) mass market paperbacks of the Crossroads Trilogy (Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate, Traitors' Gate).

Here's the deal:

1) Send an email to Kate.Elliott@(no-spam)sff.net with the header "Crossroads Giveaway". Remember to remove the (no-spam) part.

2) In the body, your email needs your full mailing address (snail mail). Without that, I can't enter you.

3) One entry per person, please. Multiples will be DQd.

DATES: April 7 (today) to April 18.

I will choose the winner by blind lottery drawing on April 18 late in the evening, my time, which is pretty much the last hours of April 18 anywhere in the world.

I will be having a second contest, but the terms will be different. More on that later. This one, however, is purely enter to win by following the directions, and no other elements apply.

In a day or two I will announce two contests for complete sets of the Crossroads trilogy mass market paperbacks (the Tor Books USA edition, as the Orbit UK mass market paperback edition--they have a specialized name for it--isn't yet out). So if that is the kind of thing that seems of interest to you, keep your eyes open.

I have completed my work going through the CEM (copy-edited manuscript) of Cold Magic. As I said on Twitter and Facebook (where these days I post a bit more often than I do here), this was a very clean and smart copy edit that was a pleasure to work with.

And speaking of Twitter and Facebook, I am KateElliottSFF on Twitter and Kate Elliott on Facebook. This information may be of interest to those of you on those social networking sites. For those who avoid such sites, I totally understand. There are other social networking sites I have so far avoided because I can only stretch so far and have only so much time.

The Tor Books paperback edition of Traitors' Gate is available in the USA, as of March 2.

I'm still back, and still processing our fabulous trip to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Paris. But as it happens I unexpectedly have to make another quick trip, so my brave attempts to start posting regularly again will fade into the necessity of Family Obligations. For the time being.

March 2 marks the publication of the Tor Books paperback version of Traitors' Gate. I just got copies today in the mail, and the physical book looks very nice. I particularly like the way the typeface pops, especially on the spine for some reason. (The Orbit UK paperback of TG comes out in August.)

But that's not why I'm posting.

I'm posting because Twin A reminded me about TV Tropes, the excellent site (which never takes itself too seriously, and yet does take itself seriously, if you see what I mean) about . . .

well, here's what they say about what they're about:

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

I knew that the Jaran books have been mentioned with reference to tropes "Benevolent Alien Invasion" and "The Moorcock Effect."

But what Twin A pointed out to me was much better than that.

Crown of Stars (the series) has its very own page..

And it is so funny, and so wonderful in the choices highlighted, that it has the salutary effect of reminding me why I loved writing that series and that I had so much fun with it, besides the serious parts, and even with the serious parts. Although I'm sorry about the Depraved Bisexual. It just worked out that way, given the character involved, but it did make me cringe as I was writing it.

Anyway, if you've read Crown of Stars and enjoy the whole TV Tropes thing, check it out. I particularly enjoy the Bulkezu love going on.

The response on the SFNovelists post has been great.

Meanwhile, although I realize I have not been posting here much at all this month due to Life, Deadlines, and Life and Deadlines, I will be scarce yet again, probably even more so.

Happy New Year!

BOOK NEWS (addendum):

The paperback of Traitors' Gate is due out in March 2010. w00t!

And I feel relatively safe in announcing that I am currently being told that COLD MAGIC will be published in Sept 2010. So, mark your calendars.

Nicholas Kristof on why, yes, we do need health care reform. Gacked from

suricattus

From Tehran Bureau, Fariba Pajooh--Still in Jail, lest we forget. You know, the more I think about it, the more I reflect on how condescending toward the Iranian people those early "reports" and suppositions were that the whole post election protest (and its subsequent manifestations, which I try to follow) was merely a CIA deep cover operation, as if Iranians are some kind of dupes rather than educated, civilized, sophisticated people perfectly capable of speaking out at last on their own behalf. Their courage is astonishing, heart-rending, and a lesson for us all.

Now for something completely different:

I love this review of the first two books of the Gate trilogy and can't wait to see what the reviewer makes of book three. (There are mild spoilers.) (The reviewer totally "gets" Mai, to which I say: "Squee!")

Grinding to Valhalla interviews Katharine Kerr about her shady past as a gamer.

I do have one more deverry15 post, but for the last few days I've been unable to access my laptop, which is where the post resides, so I hope to post it tonight, perhaps, or else tomorrow.

Tonight's is a variety post

1: who is attending WFC?

2: I just saw this fabulous jacket quote from David Drake, writing about the Crossroads trilogy:

Kate Elliott's Crossroads series has the feel and color of a John Ford western. The characters are both believable and larger-than-life, and there's plenty of action.

I gotta say, I don't at all mind being compared to a John Ford western.

3: Good readings:

Lamentation, by Ken Scholes. Just finished this and fortunately, since I'm touring with him, I won't have to lie and say "omigod I just didn't have time to read your book, dude." (well, okay, usually when I say that it's because I didn't actually have time, but you know what I mean . . .) Instead, I can quite truthfully say how much I enjoyed Lamentation, a solid and entertaining fantasy novel that deftly tackles some difficult subject matter and which is particularly impressive as a debut novel with strong, assured writing and no seams showing as some first novels have. I'm looking forward to the sequel, Canticle.

The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds. Science fiction, kind of space opera, kind of not. This is just plain a good novel, by a good writer, who knows what he is doing and who makes the journey engrossing. Also: the entire story in one volume! I'll definitely read his next book, House of Suns, when it comes out in paperback.

I read a couple of other books, too. I think I mentioned them already. I have missed several. Oh well.

Let me know if you'll be at WFC. I need to know who to look for (and who to avoid! *g*)

If anyone wants to discuss Traitors' Gate or the Crossroads Trilogy, here's the place to do it. Or you can ask spoilerific questions. All this in the comments section, if you want. Those who haven't read, aren't going to read, could care less, or aren't finished yet and don't want spoilers: Avoid.

Ken and I have threatened to brawl, but you'll have to come see.

I'll post this next week again.

Meanwhile, here is the Facebook Event page for those on Facebook (it's open, which may mean that anyone, even non Facebook subscribers, can see it, although I *don't actually know*).

For those not:

Mon 26 Oct
7 pm
University Bookstore, Seattle WA

Tues 27 Oct
Powells - Cedar Hills
(note: not the flagship store on Burnside)

Wed 28 Oct
6:30 - 8 pm
Borderlands
San Francisco, CA
(this is a huge multi author signing as prelude to World Fantasy Convention)

29 Oct - Nov 1
World Fantasy Convention - San Jose, CA
(I'll be there. So will Ken)

Mon 2 Nov
7 pm
Mysterious Galaxy
San Diego

Tues 3 Nov
7 pm
Dark Delicacies
Burbank, CA

Sorry if this is a bit spammy. I'm trying to get to word out, so ignore if you've seen before. My thanks.

Here's another very nice review of the Crossroads trilogy. (by our own

mayakda

If you've posted a review of the trilogy or one of the books, feel free to let me know and I'll compile more linkage. My thanks.

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A snippet from Crossroads 4
In which I write about why I write about rape
Word Cloud for Traitors' Gate
2011: Looking forward at work
another stroll along the writing process
Crossroads review + the perils of translation
Traitors' Gate now on Kindle
A Brief Comment on Revisions & Review Linkage
My Mind is Full of Thoughts: Spiritwalker, Jaran, and the Wellspring
Crossroads Giveaway - 3 Winners
Contest #1: Crossroads Trilogy
April is Here: Crossroads, Cold Magic, Twitter, Facebook
Traitors' Gate: USA Paperback is out
TV Tropes: Crown of Stars
Happy Holidays + Book News
Seemingly Unrelated Things Make a Post
WFC, John Ford, Lamentation, The Prefect, and ?
Discussion (Spoilers): Traitors' Gate & Crossroads Trilogy
Ken Scholes/Kate Elliott Smackdown and West Coast Book Tour
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Entries tagged with crossroads

A snippet from Crossroads 4

In which I write about why I write about rape

Word Cloud for Traitors' Gate

2011: Looking forward at work

another stroll along the writing process

Crossroads review + the perils of translation

Traitors' Gate now on Kindle

A Brief Comment on Revisions & Review Linkage

My Mind is Full of Thoughts: Spiritwalker, Jaran, and the Wellspring

Crossroads Giveaway - 3 Winners

Contest #1: Crossroads Trilogy

April is Here: Crossroads, Cold Magic, Twitter, Facebook

Traitors' Gate: USA Paperback is out

TV Tropes: Crown of Stars

Happy Holidays + Book News

Seemingly Unrelated Things Make a Post

WFC, John Ford, Lamentation, The Prefect, and ?

Discussion (Spoilers): Traitors' Gate & Crossroads Trilogy

Ken Scholes/Kate Elliott Smackdown and West Coast Book Tour

And while I'm at it