Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
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... 
Scattered update post today! None of these items seemed to warrant a post of their own, so it’s a casserole of updates, news, and funny bits today.
I’ve been editing my so-far-untitled epic fantasy novel, and having a great time with that. It’s been suiting me lately, as I’ve not been in the mood to compose something big and new. As those close to me know, I have a health condition... 
I avoid relationships that are heavy on mind games.Trying to figure out what people really want and if they mean what the say is tedious. Sure, folks are full of subtlety, but if you want something, I expect you to say so. The only mind games I like are games like Soduku, Hashi, Slitherlink. Oh, and writing.
Being a professional writer has to be the biggest mind-fuck of all.
Last month, author Nancy J.... 
This post is part of the Writing Adventure Group topic: Crimes and Misdemeanours.
My hair is now eight inches longer than it was in the profile pictures I use online, and I recently decided I needed bangs.
“Why didn’t you just go to the hairdresser?” a Certain Highlander asked me while observing the results of my “learned-it-on-YouTube” self-trim. A man in a novel would have... 
This weekend has been an utter whirlwind! I’ve spent most of it (so far… it’s a 3-day weekend here in the UK as well) either out, organising, and answering about 50x the normal amount of email, or on the phone. I wrote 500 words on Wildings today, and I was thrilled to have gotten that much done! Frankly, it’s been an exhausting three days. Wonderful, but man, I’m worn... 
So what do you think of this? I’ve heard of inhaling your food, but this is a bit extreme, isn’t it?
This sprayable chocolate (soon to come out in coffee, spice, cheese [WTF??], and liqueur flavours too) by Lemondrop UK is supposed to help your cravings by faking your senses into thinking that you’re enjoying something that isn’t there. The problem I forsee (because I have no... 
Blame Talli Roland for everything you are about to read. Apparantly I’ve been tagged, and I’m supposed to answer each of these questions 5 times. She said she’d stalk me if I didn’t do it, but I’m rather hoping she will anyway, mostly because I know if she did show up to peep into my windows and rifle through my mail, she’d bring donuts. I love donuts.
This is all... 
The dumbest stuff I see on the Internet and TV is obviously created by people with too much time on their hands and no real problems (or in the case of TV, people who think you have too much time on your hands). For example, who wants to watch shows about “The Boy With A Tumor For A Face” (real show, btw) or people whose houses are dirtier than one would have thought possible. (Okay, I do crack... 
When reading the story of a couple in Harriman, Tennessee today, I was struck by one thing. Wait. That’s a lie. By about four things, but the point of today’s Quick Tip is only one of them.
According to the Metro: “Officers responded to a call reporting a man on fire in Harriman, Tennessee on Tuesday, only to discover the couple severely burned and, apparently, drunk. The 62-year-old... 
I’m not Lara Croft. Nor Trinity (from the Matrix). I wouldn’t mind being Michelle Obama although my fantasy-me is more Amelia Earhart. I’m none of these. I’m somewhere, in reality, between crazy cat-lady and Mr Bean… with a laptop.
I came face to face with this reality when researching alternate (to plane travel) methods to get to the US from here. There are options, as it... 
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.
