From Twitter 06-13-2010

• 13:43:59: Got doritos, got dip, got Bad Dogs open and am ready to go! #amwriting
  
• 14:44:54: Loving the wereanimal retconning going down in Bullet. Lycanthropy isn't a disease after all, it's something the vampire created?
  
• 14:45:22: At least, that seems to be the implication as far as the magical elemental-power wielding weretigers go. Who knows?
  
• 14:48:03: Anita is also queen of the weretigers WTF?
  
• 14:49:11: @wtfbrain It's probably better to wipe as much of this book from your head as possible, I've decided
  
• 14:51:51: @wtfbrain Ah, I haven't read ST. I'm trying not to worry about how tigers don't live in social groups in the wild (or leopards either)
  
• 14:52:06: @Scarimonious Lol, I would read a book where Anita became queen of the megazords
  
• 14:59:37: "All else is just toys" or "all else are just toys"? Grammar drama!
  
• 15:06:24: "OH HAI, the evilest vampire evah is coming to get us and she's really very bad indeed. Let's stop to discuss sex."
  
• 15:10:01: @Scarimonious I feel so bad for all the werelions in the Anitaverse. I want to open a sanctuary for battered, emasculated lycanthropes
  
• 15:20:36: Anyway, Su Halfwerk is blogging about her new release from Damnation Books for me today http://naomi-jay.livejournal.com/259010.html
  
• 15:20:49: If you like demons, curses, horror, and urban fantasy, check it out!
  
• 15:26:55: @Scarimonious Lol, Anita can't actually remember anyone's name, so she just calls them whatever pops into her head. Explains Hannah/Candy
  
• 15:30:39: @Scarimonious Richard probably left town years ago! The new alpha is a dude called Mike and he has no idea what this "triumvirate" is
  
• 15:36:51: "I was still hoping to save this from becoming a clusterfuck." Ha ha, about ten books too late, LKH, my dear...
  
• 15:37:15: Female lions, or "lionesses" as some would call them
  
• 15:38:24: And who the hell dresses the men in this series? It's like they're all extras at the Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• 15:42:02: The phrase "female lions" is quickly becoming irritating beyond all measure
  
• 15:42:56: "OH HAI, a nasty mean nasty ol' lion is coming to maybe start some shit. Let's stop and discuss our outfits!"
  
• 15:45:31: @Scarimonious Redundant biology degree is redundant, more like...
  
• 16:31:34: This book is so much WTFery it must break some laws somewhere
  
• 16:37:26: @Scarimonious I would pay to edit this book. I could cut about two hundred pages from it, easy
  
• 16:54:48: @Scarimonious Yep. And a lot of that could be cut too. Basically I want to turn the entire book into flash fiction
  
• 17:00:45: RT @SuHalfwerk: If you like demons, curses, horror, and urban fantasy, then read my blog today at Naomi Clark's Livejournal http://tinyu ...
  
• 17:00:55: @SuHalfwerk You're very welcome!
  
• 17:08:49: Oh, and another discussion about sex in the middle of an international crisis involving scary vampires! What perfect timing
  
• 17:09:57: Anita doesn't understand what something means. I am not surprised. I could write a book on what Anita doesn't understand
  
• 17:18:15: @thetheoryof Yes, apparently we can talk about sex for the rest of our lives and still not be done with it
  
• 17:35:05: @Scarimonious I think she does it on purpose so she can always blame other people when the bad things happen
  
• 17:45:06: @Scarimonious Let me test my understanding: You're saying it's never her fault? What does that mean? I'm making this a question
  
• 17:45:30: Somewhere amongst all this snarking, I've managed to write over 3k on Bad Dogs today. Huzzah"
  
• 18:59:36: @thetheoryof Yes, my multi-tasking abilities know no bounds!
  
• 22:11:23: Just finished Unholy Ghosts by @StaciaKane - my god! Best book I've read this year!
  
• 22:15:59: The trouble with finishing a really excellent book is that suddenly none of your other books look worth reading
  
• 23:34:35: @yolandasfetsos I can honestly say that at this point. I'm reading them as cautionary tales
  

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Writing Meme Day 12 - Welcome to my world

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share?

It's a toss-up between SILVER KISS and AFTERLIFE. With SILVER KISS (and the other Urban Wolf stuff I've written so far) I've really tried to examine how werewolves living openly amongst humans would affect society. Everything from court cases (evidence acquired by scent is not admissible in court yet) to schools (Lupine Studies is taught alongside Maths and English) to hate groups (down with Alpha Humans! Boo!) to what happens when a werewolf needs to shapeshift in the middle of the street (there are special changing booths so people can strip off without being arrested for indecent exposure). There's loads more too, that might not necessarily make it into the books (God, I so want to write the story set in WWI when werewolves were forced into public awareness due to trench warfare!). I really hope it helped make the book more believable and compelling to readers, and since the reviews thus far have been good, I assume it did.

With AFTERLIFE, I built two completely fictional worlds - the city of Shoregrave which is just "somewhere on planet Earth," and the Pale World, which is the realm of ghosts, wraiths, vampires, and all the undead. Both drew inspiration from the works of HP Lovecraft. I wanted Shoregrave to be almost a character in its own right, with a deep, bloody history and a very real feel to it, like it was somewhere you might actually get to visit (if you'd want to). I spent a lot of time inventing streets, locations, histories, landmarks etc, most of which you can explore by clicking "The Small World Guide to Shoregrave" tag in my sidebar. To me, Shoregrave is utterly real. I can picture it perfectly as this drizzly, gothic city with lots of twisty turny side streets, crooked headstones in the graveyards, a few brave street cafes, and a bleak stretch of coastline. I'd live there.

The Pale World needed a lot of rules, as did the creatures that lived there, and I'm not 100% sure I got all those rules in order. Next book! But yeah, the laws of physics are different there. I'm pretty pleased with how I described it; hopefully readers got the image I wanted - a of foggy realm cast in bluish light where ghosts and wights flicker back and forth aimlessly, and ghouls lurk by every headstone waiting for their next meal. A lifeless place, a place that might make you think of purgatory. When I get round to writing Halflife, the sequel, I plan to explore a lot more of the Pale World and its denizens. Bring on the mad monks and necromancers!

( Questions under the cut )