by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 28, 2019 | Blog
So everyone made it safely to the house. Cordelia Willis gave me one of her bound books of their trip this past summer. Cordelia is a wonderful photographer. George and Parris gave me a darling Dr. Who purse. Considering I was just texting with a friend about whether he was the Doctor and I the Companion or vice versa it felt very apt. I overcooked the stuffing, and burned rather than toasted the top because I forgot about it because the damn bird would not get done! I blamed the turkey (and I...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog
So I wrote these three urban fantasy novels under a pseudonym — Phillipa Bornikova because I didn’t want to risk reader confusion and these were really different from the Edge book and the Imperials books. For one thing they are in first person and they have vampires, and werewolves and elves, Oh My! After my beloved editor was taken ill the books fell into a black hole and the third book didn’t come out for several years. When I finally got a new editor both he and the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog
I wanted to give folks an update on getting Imperials back into print and the final two books available to readers. First the good news. I’m making really good progress on book 5 thought I’ve had to set it aside briefly while I revise the third Linnet Ellery book. (More on that in a separate post). Now the bad news. The publisher we had hoped would pick up Imperials didn’t bite because they don’t do reprints and wouldn’t put the first three books back into print....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Okay, confession time. I’ve been really, really bad about posting here. Partly because I’ve been super busy with the Wild Cards writer’s room, but also because writing blog posts starts to feel a whole lot like work. I want to keep my website so people can see the books I’ve published, etc., but if you want to get in touch with me, or just generally hang out I recommend you friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. I do have an Instagram account but I kinda suck at...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 10, 2019 | Blog
First an abject apology to the person who wrote me about the publication date on the fourth Imperials book — The Currency of War. I’m an idiot and in moving it from the spam file (I have no idea why my mail program regards emails to me from this website as spam but it does). Anyway, I somehow managed to lose the email. So again, apologies for not answering directly. But here is the answer — due to circumstances beyond my control the publication of the final two books is going...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog
I am very aggravated this went out into the world without Andrew’s, mine or George’s approval but it happened so rather than curse I want to get ahead of the news. There was an unfortunately leak from the set of Wild Cards.You can read about it here on George’s blog and see the stolen video, http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2019/04/01/a-little-leak/ and also read about it here https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/george-r-r-martins-soapy-new-adventure/. I’m really...
