April being April, what could be better than a story about The Fool? Thanks to Clarkesworld for publishing “The Cuckoo”, a Twinmaker story about yet another threat to everything we hold dear. D-mat is a powerful and dangerous tool, and so are memes. Put the two together at your own peril. Here’s the opening: April […]
(This scene took place on Clair’s original walk to school, where she planned to confront Libby about using Improvement. Instead she ends up confronting Jesse, not knowing that today is the anniversary of his mother’s death.) The crowd was becoming louder. An eye-in-the-sky drone was watching, in case things turned ugly. No one liked being […]
Twinmaker went through a lot of drafts. I have nineteen different files stashed away, plus three different openings, three different endings, and numerous alternate takes on individual chapters. Characters came and went, names changed, themes rose to the surface or were trimmed back . . . yet somehow, through it all, the book stayed the […]
In the weeks ahead I’m going to be concentrating on two things: writing Hollowgirl (aka Fall) and touring Spirit Animals 3: Blood Ties and Troubletwisters 4: The Missing (aka Missing, Presumed Evil) with Garth Nix. I’ll also be editing the final pages of Crashland/Crash, when they come through. But that doesn’t mean this site will […]