Kris Millering

site changes!

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:50:00 -0700

I've spent most of the last two days either cleaning house (we had a party yesterday) or working on my Web site, which is now a lot more shiny. I have a blog engine running under the front page, which will make doing updates and changes a lot easier.

So, hooray for that!

I'm still working on Imryne and The Water and the Wild; I haven't had a lot of writing time lately due to various factors, but I'm hoping to start catching up soon. I'm working on releasing another book on Lulu, and I'll post here when it's done. I'm also writing an article or two for the new web site ImberCorvus.com.

And finally, you can add the feed for this site to your friendly newsreader--just click one of the RSS buttons to the right!

Imryne updates; The Water and the Wild launches...

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I'm over here busily working away; spring is getting close, and I'm trying to get a bunch of writing time in now because my time invariably becomes shorter when the days get longer. What's going on now:

Imryne, of House Melrae is moving along; I'm about halfway through book three, which is called Stone Sky. I'm enjoying this series immensely, and more so as I get to the place where the everything will change. I think after Stone Sky there are two more books, or maybe one longer one.
The Water and the Wild is also being written and posted; I'm having fun writing in a slightly younger voice and with the intention of keeping the book relatively brief. The chapters are about half the length of the chapters I write for Imryne, for example, but they take almost as long to write per chapter.
Storm and I have just finished plotting out the first book in a nonology that will take us a year or two to write, called The Nine Secrets. This book is called Silver and Opium, and it takes place in Hong Kong in the mid-19th century.
I recently went on a photo trip to Kauai, where I took a bunch of pictures and learned a bunch of stuff about travel photography. I have some portrait sessions scheduled soon, where I will attempt to look like I know what I'm doing and have all my models sign a release so I can use their pictures in this year's yearbook.

I'm learning a bunch of things about digital asset management and how to make pictures look like I want them to, both in camera and after processing. I have some money to spend yet on external hard drives, but other than that I've got a very sweet setup.

Travel plans at this point include San Francisco this month and probably again in June, Vancouver in May-ish, one or two of the San Juans when we start having more reliable weather up there, and possibly Victoria sometime in August.

So very busy! I love it.

Imryne, Water and the Wild, and Hunter's Shadow

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:01:00 -0700

So. After being rather devastatingly ill this week for a bit, I have come out realizing that I have fallen behind on sharing all the news that's fit to blog.

First up is Imryne, of House Melrae, which is an epic fantasy of politics, magic, and murder. I am about a third of the way into it, I think, and am about to finish up the second book in what will probably be a four or five-book series. One of the things I'm doing this weekend is to put the story so far up on an archive site, but for now you can read it here, or pick up the RSS feed.

I'm having a lot of fun with Imryne, in large part because the society I'm writing about is so cheerfully vicious, and the main character herself is always just a step away from falling into that viciousness and madness.

What I'm going to be doing once I'm finished with the chapter I'm writing is alternating chapters of Imryne with chapters of The Water and the Wild, which is a YA book about Ireland during the potato famine, a pair of pixies, and the girl who has to try to save Ireland--and then herself.

I'll post here when I start posting those chapters, but I'm hoping it'll be a couple of weeks from now.

I've also started writing another book with Storm, this one called Hunter's Shadow. Set in Romania in 1599, it's the story of Sabina, a Roma woman who has inherited the position of vampire hunter from her father. When she comes up against a vampire too touch for her, her life is saved by a vampire...who in the process of saving her life, makes her his servant, bound to him by his blood. Tainted by vampire blood, unable to tell anyone what's happening to her, Sabina descends into a spiral of lies and violence, using the powers granted to her by the blood to hunt Sabats.

But Sabina doubts the intentions of Lucian, the vampire who turned her, and is tormented by the secrets she keeps. The worse things get, the closer she gets to Lucian, and the more she loathes herself for what she is becoming. He is pulling her down into unimaginable sins, or so she thinks.

As their bond grows, and with every decision she makes that keeps her by his side, the question of Lucian's intentions becomes more and more urgent. Can a vampire, in Rom legend a monster of filth, be truly committed to killing off its own kind? Or is Lucian using her for his own ends?

I'll post more when Hunter's Shadow starts, as well.