Earlier this week, I touched on the central touchstone for the tone of my books: life is routine. I think most everyone knows what I…
When it comes to writing, I think we all have things that we think we’re pretty good at and enjoy doing. Our comfort zone, where…
Hi, I’m Kate, and there are a whole lot of authors that I love! But that’s kind of a loaded statement. Because to me, loving…
[tweet http://twitter.com/KateMcBooks/status/571478222996574208] Grr! Is there anything worse? It’s one thing when you realize that everything you just wrote is terrible and you have to delete…
Today I’m just going to talk a bit about my own work. My first book, The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, offers a lot of things that I…
All right, writers; stop me if you’re heard this one. You’re planning a new book. It’s got an interesting setting, something you’ve always been interested…
(Short personal note! I’ll be trying to make a couple of posts today! I’m on a trip and not even 15 hours in, I fell…
One of my favourite authors is Scott Lynch, writer of The Lies of Locke Lamora and its sequels. Lynch is often considered more pulp than…
I was about three quarters of the way through my first draft of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant when my best friend linked me a song. “I…
Am I the only one who’s just enamoured with publishing as an industry? I know, I know. It’s flawed. It’s a business. It turns art…