L. E. Sterling

Tag: writing

  • Book drop news!

    Starling’s Weave to drop 10/21/24 In an abrupt turn of fate, the release date for Starling’s Weave has been moved up to October 21, 2024. That’s right – you heard me – less than three months away. Over the next few weeks I’ll be unveiling the cover and book blurb here first, because you people…

  • The Wizards at Work

    The third and final round of edits for Starling’s Weave (back to you all soon regarding the new Fall 2024 release date — stay tuned!) are now in (cue applause), and I have to say, this was a particularly gruelling — and rewarding — set of edits.  For those of you not in the book…

  • To Plot or To Pants, That is the Question

    When I first started doing press for True Born, one of the questions I was most surprised by (which became ubiquitous, by the way) was this: Are you a Plotter, or a Pantser?  If you’re a little lost, allow me to translate. The interviewers were asking if, during my writing process, I liked to ‘fly…

  • My Weekend With Ken

    It’s taken me a few days to wrap my head around my experience at the LA Times Festival of Books and to come back here and write about it for you. Needless to say, the weekend was mind-boggling, potentially life-altering (in a good way), and all the good stuff in between. Here are just a…

  • On Dystopias

      For me, a good dystopian world follows the logic of this Leonard Cohen lyric: There’s a crack / there’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in By their very definition, dystopian worlds are deeply flawed, dangerous, extreme and upsetting.  One thinks of the lottery system in Hunger Games, or the siloed…