OUR LADY OF SORROWS (OLoS) is the story of Sapheda, a Nephilim supersoldier serving a totalitarian, post-apocalyptic regime. A mission to kill a rogue Nephilim thought to be responsible for the assassination of a senior Party official leads to discovering secrets she was never meant to know – information which eventually leads to the extermination… Continue Reading
Author Archives: M. James Blood | @MJamesBlood
Blunt Metaphor: A Writer’s Tale
Last week, I committed to joining a writer’s group. I figure that if I am aiming to be published, I need to get used to relative strangers tearing my novels apart. The prospect of exposing my soft, meaty belly to a pack of relative strangers was not an especially pleasant one, but hey – that’s… Continue Reading
The novel writing process
I am eyeing my book, and my book is eyeing me back. Like: “Come on, motherfucker. Write me. I dare you.” 7500 words to go on this draft. If I’m roleplaying, or chatting, or doing things for my editorial job, I can do that in two hours. With my novels, though, the words always seem… Continue Reading
MEAT CAKE: The Reckoning
After 5 months of adventuring around the world (adventures I hardly ended up writing about: but I lived in Ireland for 3 months and Germany for 1 1/2), I return to my adoptive city of Seattle. One of the House members had her birthday on the 6th December, and so I decided to bake her… Continue Reading
Jana Volotsya
Jana Volotsya: Crooked lawyer and security fixer. A hardcase centre in a white, pristine shell, she’s almost the lady of Alexi’s dreams Name: Tetyana (Jana) Ivanova Volotsya DOB: 4/4/1958 Height: 5ft 5in Weight: 132lb Eye Color Bright blue Nationality: Second generation Russian-American Hometown: Boston, MA Current Residence: Sheepshead Bay, NYC Siblings: Like Alexi, Jana is… Continue Reading
Building a plot: using ‘key action points’
Developing plots for your novels is actually one of the hardest parts of writing a book for most people. On a good day, the story seems to spool out from our mind-brains. On a bad day, it can feel like chipping at a huge block of ice with a wooden spoon. This post is relatively… Continue Reading