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Category Archives: Ethan Kaille
Ethan Kaille’s Diary: 1 February 1765
On Monday, I shared with you the first in a series of entries from a day journal belonging to Ethan Kaille, thieftaker and conjurer, whose life in Colonial Boston is the focus of the upcoming Thieftaker books (beginning with Thieftaker, … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Character, Ethan Kaille, History, Mystery, Short Fiction, Thieftaker, Urban Fantasy, Writing
Tagged Boston, Ethan Kaille, free fiction, free samples, history, short fiction, Thieftaker, writing
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Ethan Kaille’s Diary: 30 January 1765
As I noted in a post on the first of this year, I recently came across a day journal belonging to Ethan Kaille, thieftaker and conjurer, whose many adventures in Colonial Boston are the subject matter for the upcoming Thieftaker … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Character, Ethan Kaille, History, Mystery, Short Fiction, Thieftaker, Urban Fantasy, Writing
Tagged Boston, Ethan Kaille, free fiction, history, short fiction, Thieftaker, writing
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Writing Tips: More on Dialogue — Conversations As Narrative
The other day, in my first Writing Tips post, I wrote about said-bookisms and the challenges of dialogue attribution. Just to reiterate, the key to effective dialogue attribution is showing readers the emotions and thoughts of those characters who speak … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Ethan Kaille, Friendship, Novels, Publishing, Short Fiction, Thieftaker, Writing
Tagged dialogue, Thieftaker, writing, writing advice, writing dialogue, writing tips
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Writing Tips: Said-Bookisms, the Obscure Sin that Can Doom a Manuscript
I’ve been writing professionally for more than fifteen years, and I’ve been reading avidly for far longer. Over the years the publishing market has seen sea-changes in almost every respect, with ramifications for the business, the very act of reading, … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Ethan Kaille, Novels, Publishing, Reading, Short Fiction, Thieftaker, Writing
Tagged dialogue, how to write, said-bookisms, writing, writing advice, writing dialogue, writing tips
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Researching New Thieftaker Books
One of the things that often strikes friends and family as strange about my work is the distance in time between “what I’m working on” and “what I have coming out.” We are still six months away from the July … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Ethan Kaille, History, Novels, Publishing, Reading, Research, Setting, Thieftaker, Thieves' Quarry, Writing, Writing Life
Tagged Boston, Boston Massacre, D.B. Jackson, fantasy, history, magic, research, Thieftaker, writing
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Ethan Kaille’s Diary: January 1, 1765
In researching the life and times of Ethan Kaille, thieftaker and conjurer, whose many adventures in Colonial Boston are the subject matter for the upcoming Thieftaker books (beginning with Thieftaker, book I of the Thieftaker Chronicles) I have in the … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Character, Ethan Kaille, History, Politics, Thieftaker, Writing
Tagged Boston, character, D.B. Jackson, Ethan Kaille, fiction, history, Thieftaker, writing
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