Author: J.L. Gribble
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Snow Day Special: STEEL VICTORY deleted scene!
Since we had another snow day here at Casa Siamese, or Limani HQ, or STEEL EMPIRES central, or whatever I feel like calling my house today, I figured it was time for a treat to break us out of the winter doldrums. Or at least while we take a break…
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Snow Day Odds & Ends
I hope everyone (like me) in the Mid-Atlantic is staying safe and dry during Snowzilla! I didn’t actually have a snow day, but it is officially snowing out, so here are some small bits to keep entertained. STEEL VICTORY was Geek Syndicate’s Elevator Pitch book today! They’ve included their one-sentence description…
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Updated Web Site!
I’d been letting some details languish, so thought I’d spend a few minutes today updating some of the sections of this blog! Chronology page: Updated some progress notes and added a story I’m brainstorming, the coda to book 2, STEEL MAGIC. Theme Songs page: Half the reason I’m writing a…
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Infinity Dreams Award Tag
I was tagged a few weeks ago by Nicolette Elzie of A Little Bookish, A Little Writerly to participate in the Infinity Dreams Award Tag. I’m not really sure what the award part is, but basically I share some more about myself as a writer and person (because if all…
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Permission to write: why a writing retreat offers 4 great benefits to your creativity
I could write a post about Raw Dog Screaming Press’s new writing retreat at Broadkill but K.W. Taylor beat me to the punch!
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December Wrap-Up & January Goals
December was both a slow and hectic month for me. Slow in that I was out of commission with a nasty cold for the first 1/3 of the month and hectic because the holidays coincided with the deadline for the final draft of STEEL MAGIC. (But it was submitted on…
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7/7/7 Challenge + Mention in Alumni Magazine!
Two small updates today, because my life has been consumed by preparations for the holidays and edits to book 2, STEEL MAGIC.
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Review: LOST STARS by Claudia Gray
My husband and I were really surprised to learn that this novel was marketed as Young Adult after we’d read it. We both thought this novel was better than many adult STAR WARS books we’ve read over the years!
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NaNoWriMo Follow-up: Part 1
Sorry for the silence for the past 2 weeks. I picked up a cold on the last day of November and it took me down hard. But I’m feeling much better now! Unfortunately, my days have been wrapped up with working on STEEL MAGIC edits, and my NaNoWriMo novel is…
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November Wrap-Up & December Goals
November Wrap-Up: Participate in NaNoWriMo (successfully): Done! I wrote 50,000 words in 30 days over the month of November, bringing my word count for book 3 to 70,014 words. December Goals: Incorporate my editor’s notes and complete the full line edit of STEEL MAGIC before deadline on 12/31/2015. Start working…
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NaNoWriMo Update: WINNER!
NaNoWriMo for 2015 is finally done, with a few hours to spare. This is my second year “winning” in a row, and just like last year, I definitely still have a lot of work to do. This time, it’s writing about 8 more scenes (including the epic dragon battle while…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Week 2
I’m still plugging along, kids! Sort of. This update was supposed to go up on Monday, but I burned one of my free days and drank beer and caught up on the DVR instead. No regrets! As of last night, I’m at 29,086 words (49,086 for the STEEL BLOOD total).…
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Interview with Deanna Dee
The third novel in “The Games of Love” series by Deanna Dee comes out today! I’m so happy to participate in her release day blast for FINISH HIM by interviewing her about a topic that is also near and dear to my heart: gaming. Though gaming has always been a…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Week 1
I am on a roll with NaNoWriMo this year! Tonight I hit 16,000 words (36,000 total for the manuscript), and I’ve been consistently writing every day. The only exception has been 11/7, because that’s my husband’s birthday–instead, we had a great day watching the new James Bond movie and eating…
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October Wrap-Up & November Goals
October Wrap-Up: I made it to 20,000 words in STEEL BLOOD by October 31. So I will definitely have at least 5k to 10k words to complete in December, but I am okay with that. I finished all of the Kitty the Werewolf books and wrote up my review of…
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SF Signal hosts my blog post about vampires in popular fiction!
I took a film genre course in college, and wrote an entire research paper on the evolution of vampires in film. No knowledge is ever wasted, so with a little more work, I was able to write a (much shorter) essay on the evolution of vampires in popular fiction. SF…
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STEEL BLOOD: My 2015 NaNoWriMo Novel
It’s that time of year again, kids. That time when a significant number of the writers in your life hibernate with their computers for hours on end, alternately spamming social media with words counts or angsting about how this is impossible and they will never get it done.