Category Archives: The Unexpected Thing

housecleaning

A good deal later, I have finally brought the designs portfolio up to date. Also reordered it in reverse-chronological order so you don’t have to scroll way down to see what’s new. What’s new? Eleven books designed, laid out, and sent to press over the fall, winter, and into early spring. (There were twelve, actually, […]

4 April 2012 – 7:21 AM | By AX | Posted in design, fantasy, fiction, short stories, spec fic, The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)

the year that was

Well, it’s a tradition, I suppose, the year-end sum up, hardly subverted by being posted on the first day of the new year instead of the last of the old. So. In 2011, I published two books, a marvel of unprecedented proportion. The New People (and its companion-between-the-covers, Brandon Bell’s Elegant Threat) made little impression […]

1 January 2012 – 1:17 AM | By AX | Posted in BrazenHead, fiction, novelette, SF, short stories, spec fic, The Abode of Bliss, The New People, The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)

oh happy day

Today, 8 May 2011, is the eighteenth birthday of my closest companion (bar the cats) of the last two years. Or would be if, you know, he were an actual person rather than an imagined construct, a character in a novel nobody but myself has yet read all the way through. As of today, Nathaniel […]

8 May 2011 – 11:12 AM | By AX | Posted in The Unexpected Thing | Comments (0)

the unexpected draft

Today ought to be one for celebration, except I feel as though I’ve been run over by a truck. Massive, massive headache, nausea, compromised balance. Bleargh. Also I’m too broke to buy Champagne. Maybe when the income-tax refund appears in my bank account. Around 7:30 (EDT) this morning I wrote the last line of the […]

19 April 2011 – 3:53 PM | By AX | Posted in fiction, spec fic, The Unexpected Thing, work in progress, YA | Comments (0)