Here’s the cover art for my book, Waking Beauty, coming out this May. Continue reading
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Writer’s Resolutions: The 6-Word Diet Plan
I usually forego New Year’s resolutions, but in 2015, I’ve decided to go on a writer’s diet. That doesn’t mean cutting calories, but words. I have always struggled to contain my verbosity on paper. In the last month, I have cut 11,000 words of prose and 100 lines of poetry out of various projects, and … Continue reading
What Kind of Camel is Your Story?
An update on my contracted epic fantasy novel, Waking Beauty: this past weekend I got the recommendations for areas to edit back from my awesome publisher, Steve Laube of Enclave Publishing. And now, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages, we are going to perform a show-stopping literary magic act. Turn … Continue reading
The Ethics of Wonderland
So I’m reading Frank Beddor’s book, The Looking Glass Wars, based on Lewis Carroll’s famous 1860s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Looking Glass Wars is an interesting and creative book, full of action, and certainly worthy of a book review. But this is not going to be a straight-up book review. It’s a discussion of … Continue reading
Writing Update, and the art of the small
This month seems to be about the art of the minimal. First, my manuscript for the sequel to my book, Waking Beauty, is due to Enclave Publishing Nov 1. It is 85,000 words right now and needs to lose 5,000. Question of the day for those of you out there who write: Do you find it … Continue reading
Brierly’s Theme
Welcome to my blog! Here’s my first video about my book Waking Beauty. Enclave Publishing will release it in Spring 2015. To be clear, the music here is my original composition. Sometimes books I read–or write–create a soundtrack in my head. These are sketches about Brierly, which is my name for Sleeping Beauty in my story. She’s … Continue reading
Sarah E. Morin 