Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
I’ve decided to take a little time off from some of the day-to-day writerly stuff. Just a wee vacation to rest my brain a bit. Oh I’ll still be around, of course, but I needed to relax and thought, hey, why not take a vacation? Used to be when we’d want a break, we’d take a quick weekend getaway to London or Amsterdam. Because of my current mobility issues, that isn’t going to... 
I did something the other day that I rarely do anymore: I wrote a letter by hand. Not a thank-you note either… A bona fide four page letter. I was writing to someone who doesn’t have access to a computer, and although I could have written it in Word and then printed a copy, it seems so much less personal to do that — less friendly.
I used to have rather nice handwriting, but boy-oh-boy,... 
With all the stress and work and worry that goes along with being a human being, it’s good when sometimes you have a happy moment. My favourite type are the small, but unexpected things.
Yesterday I was sitting in the car, waiting for a Certain Highlander to get the food from the local takeaway place, and I looked up and saw a hot air balloon. I can’t explain why, but hot air balloons always... 
My book addiction can be quite expensive, and sometimes it’s nice to get stuff free. Well, it’s nearly always nice to get things free, unless that thing is craptastic, in which case I end up having to pay someone to get rid of it. Such is life.
But! Free Books!
I have recently discovered that you can get free Kindle books! Long-time Kindle users may know this already, but for those who want to... 
Yesterday, I ran across an article in the Guardian called ten rules for writing fiction. The title was a lie, because it was ten rules proffered by a couple dozen writers, but that too was a lie, because some of them wrote one or three or ten. Some of the rules were self-indulgent and show-offy (these were famous authors, mind you) like “no going to London”, but a few were practical and... 
I’ve always gotten great feedback from authors when I’ve critiqued their manuscripts. I love to analyse, to edit, to proof and make suggestions. The whole process of crafting a story is enjoyable to me… but… BUT… it’s so much easier when it’s someone else’s manuscript. I think all authors and even editors have some kind of blinkers to our own habits,... 
No writing advice today! It’s Monday, and I’m having trouble getting started with anything productive, so you get funny stuff.
Lately the political scene (particularly, but not exclusively, in the US) has me feeling like most people are crazy, and not in a good way. But there is an antidote: the interwebs. While there are lots of people on the internet who are obviously off their meds, there... 
Last night, with Bear finally home from his three week trip to America, we sat down for a family movie. I picked Where the Wild Things Are. My boys tolerate my love of “baby movies” and watch with me, and make up for it later by watching man-movies where everything blows up, and there’s lots of yelling.
I loved the book Where the Wild Things Are, and had read it more times than I can... 
There is a whole world of the writer of which most readers are completely unaware. (That’s probably a good thing.) If they think of us authors at all, they might think we’re at swanky coctail parties or hosting charity auctions.TV shows like Castle (although I admit I love that show) don’t help.
But the reality isn’t tinsel and tiaras. I recently read this 2004 article of... 
As you may remember, last week I posted about searching for a new title for my epic fantasy novel, which is currently in serious edits.
The votes went something like:
(The) Bestowed = 7
Beguilers(ed) = 5
Inseers = 1
The Sibling Prophecy = 1
New Suggestions were: Mindfuck (hehe), MindSight, Touched, Cursed Ones, Augurs, Diviners, and Forbidden
Of the suggested ones, I rather like MindSight.
Just to be... 
I'm a lot of other things, but mostly I'm a writer. I like books with fast action, scary killers, fantasy worlds, and smutty sex. Maybe even all four at once. My novel Ordinary Angels debuts from Lyrical Press in April 2011. To read about my other projects, click the My Fiction page. To get in touch with me, click Contact India and send me an email.
