Moving to Wordpress

It's not that I don't like Blogger, really. I just can't figure it out. xD I'm sure that it works just as well as Wordpress and does the same cool things, but that does me no good if I can't figure out how to do them.
Therefore, Qui Est In literis is now located here.
Anyway, Always 1895 is there, too, and it just seems easier to manage multiple things from the same platform.

Art Love!

The Siren is coming along, which makes me happy. My goal is to be done with the rough draft by November. The last rough I did took me seven years, so getting this one done in one seems like a vast improvement. Maybe I'll be able to whittle it down even further for the next project. It seems like rough drafts should take considerably less time than they take me. 

What makes me happier, though, is Nahrain. 

I mean, seriously. How awesome can you get? All of these are my characters, drawn much better than I could ever hope to. She's wonderful and amazing and makes me smile so much. All my thanks. <3

Writing List

Since I've got so many projects in the works, I may as well organise them somewhere.


Judge Not:

Judge Not: querying (need a new title)
The Lions' Den: first draft stage
The Sparrow's Fall: outline stage
The Cold: outline stage (with a few blurbs; provisional title)

The Siren: first draft stage (current project)

Cassandra: simultaneously outlining and drafting (which is probably a bad idea)

The Road to Damascus: outline stage

Swordmaiden: re-outlining

The Vigil: re-outlining

Bells: idea

The Incredible Voyages of Juliet and Verne Voyager: first installment outlined

Pastiche: first installment outlined; title needed

To Read!

The Summer Reading List:




Keep in mind that this is in no particular order, and I welcome recommendations, though time constraints (and luggage capacity, in some cases) restrict the amount I'll actually be able to consume...

*A Dance with Dragons (GRR Martin)
*The Difference Engine (William Gibson/Bruce Sterling)
*The Eyes of the Seer (Peter Dawes)
*The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
*Carmilla (Joseph Le Fanu)
*Sonnets from the Crimea (Adam Mickiewicz)
*The Deluge (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
*With Fire and Sword (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
*Psmith, Journalist (PG Wodehouse)
*Morning Star (H. Rider Haggard)
*Soldier Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
*Captains Courageous (Rudyard Kipling)
*A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
*Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
*Fly by Night (Frances Hardinge)
*Fly Trap (Frances Hardinge)
*A Madness of Angels (Kate Griffin)
*Storm Front (Jim Butcher)
*Sophie's World (Jostein Gaardner)
*the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon)
*Aztec Rage (Robert Gleason/Junius Podrug)
*Watership Down (Richard Adams)
*Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
*Beekeeping for Beginners (Laurie R. King)
*The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
*The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde)
*Mr Churchill's Secretary (Susan Macneil)

*Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Susan Macneil)
*The Father Brown Mysteries (GK Chesterton)

Give me more!

Introduction

It must be a certain madness which compels a comparatively private person to write a blog. That, or the incessant urgings of persons anonymous.

I'm not even strictly sure about the purpose of a blog, at least one written by me. I have no immediate plans of working my way through a cookbook, and if I tried, I suspect the fire department would eventually just stop coming to rescue me.

I'm just a writer with dreams of publication, like millions of other writers out there on the 'net. I've been told that I'm good, but it remains to be seen whether I'm good enough. Between seven o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening, I am a teacher. I know for a fact that I'm good at teaching. My training is in archaeology, though, and during the summers, I am a shovel bum. The plan is to obtain a few more degrees before I die.

I could list interests, hobbies, and so on, but I have a feeling those will come out quickly if I keep up with this thing, so I'll wrap it up.

I am the Magister.
I can also be found online as Judge, JNN, MRGraham, and Inconstant Planck.
Find my writings at Judge Not Novels.