About Me
Hello, my name is Steph. I’ve been writing and publishing since 1988 and I’ve been in the games industry since 1996. I wrote a little bit more on the About Me page. This is my sometimes-updated website. Enjoy.
Short Stories
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hooked by the nose
A good chunk of my creativity is automatically eaten up by work. I am building a world and cultures from whole cloth, and while a genre writer can temporize and finish the culture when she gets to book three of the trilogy, a creative team actually needs to know what’s going on in my brain… Continue reading
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proof
I packed page proofs to read over, and they’ve sat in my luggage for the last week, completely untouched. Yarrgh. I have been writing, but not updating here. I am a bad person. And I have another Valdemar story to write by the end of the year. Hurray! More Lelia. ♥ Continue reading
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next up: i take my iPod on a dinner date
Dear Story, You are off. Please come back as a big fat check with which I can pay off my furnace. If you don’t, then please don’t wake me up when you come in. You know I don’t approve of those late night parties you go to. Love, Mom P.S. I am contemplating your next… Continue reading
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hard copy edits
Done, mostly over a Guinness while the man played virtual golf and I fretted over adjectives. Tonight the type-in, and then first readers get to be malicious. Continue reading
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first draft donity done
Now I play Soul Calibur until I puke! (Not really.) Continue reading
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forgot!
Wrote this morning. Still one scene left, and then I do some vetting and handing out to first readers. I hate that this story took this long to write. Continue reading
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cutting things close
…too close! Not really. I have taken care of the speedbumps. One more scene to write, and it’s ready to print, vet, and send to my 24-hour first readers. I’m even liking it again! yay! Continue reading
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first draft
First draft is more or less done. I already know what needs to change. Yay. Continue reading
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how my night went
Cut. Add. Cut. Add. Shoo cat. Cut. Add. One more night of this, and I should have a first draft. No, really. People are either going to hate this format or blithely accept it. I am not questioning it. Much. Bed now. And life leads me here It shows me, I have never really loved… Continue reading
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he said I will always comfort thee
Stopping early tonight. Still haven’t resolved or, in my opinion, appropriately set up the conflict. Working on that. Too many words. May have to drop one of the story threads to favor the main thread. Arrrr. I should just write novels. It’s easier. I did leave this helpful note to myself: Screaming kids! Ghost stories!… Continue reading