Way back in the spring, before I had even finished edits, a lovely user on Goodreads gave Moth and Spark one star. The Goodreads people told me that sometimes readers used that as a way to mark books they wanted to read. I griped, and I notice now that they have a “Want to Read” button (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16239655-moth-and-spark). …
Went out with the camera today to get some action pictures of M&S:
So here’s part of the scene that I wound up writing to solve the aforementioned villain problem. I think it’s more interesting than chopping someone apart with a machete: Making the threat had given him back vitality that had ebbed with the long day. He took a bite of goat meat. He traced a pattern …
Right now I am a little stuck trying to think of villainous acts my villain can do that don’t consist of just killing more people. That’s not very interesting. (Or at least I can’t make it so.) The problem is that he’s a loner type so he doesn’t interact with many people, which means that …