Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
This has been a real week of ups and downs with my writing. The wordcount on Wildings is going steadily up, and its taking shape, but my characters are giving me hell and even though the plot is outlined, I am not entirely certain how I’m going to get them there from here.
I have added a page to the blog for My Fiction, where you can see what my current projects are and where I am. Will update as I... 
I have figured something out while I’ve been designing knit patterns, but I don’t know what it’s called, or if it even already exists in the lexicon of knitting.
I like a KFB increase, because it doesn’t leave a hole like M1, which seems to be what most people use. Also because I’m making toys, I use a smaller needle than is recommended for the yarn, so that makes things all... 
My folks are here from the States, and we’re having a great time. It’s always nice to see them and mom’s cooking just seems to make everything better. I’ve been spending as much time with them as possible, hence the lack of posting this week!
Meanwhile, I’ve been working on creating a little elf pattern for the past week, and so I had to come post now that he’s finished.... 
I’ve been working on trying to design my own knit toy, and I tell ya, it’s so much harder than I thought it would be. Who knew there was so much math in knitting?? I’ve knit and reknit, calculated and recalculated, sketched and graphed.. you’d think I was building an aquaduct with all the engineering that went into my wee moggie.
So, I’ve completed what I think of as a rough... 
I keep telling myself that I gotta quit filling up my blog with knitting stuff, because my reader probably isn’t that interested in my knitting therapy.
However, my spirits have been buoyed so much by the silliness of knitting clowns and sheep, that I really can’t help myself.
Deniz asked me yesterday how I did these so fast, but it’s really just because they’re very small. I can... 
I can’t tell you how therapeutic it is to knit little creatures. You just can’t make a tiny little mouse tux and be worried or upset at the same time.
I decided that I wanted to have a go at making a Highland Cow. For those who have never been here, they look something like this:
For my effort, I modified Barbara Prime’s Cowboy pattern, added the shaggy hair and made long horns from a... 
(If knitting talk makes your eyes glaze over, at least skim down to the uterus at the bottom. Or not. Depending on how creeped out you are at the possibilities here.)
I’ve been experimenting with various needle sizes, types of yarn and ways of assembling the Barbara Prime knit sheep pattern and I’ve been having fun with these. I plan to make others of her patterns, and can start now that... 
Well, our power was out for several hours yesterday. Holy crap, it was cold!
So, I practiced knitting for a while, trying to learn to get my stitches just perfect. My sweetheart was looking at my little practice swatches in a slightly puzzled way, as though completely unable to understand the difference between each one while I groaned, “But the rows are so uneven!”
I’ve been making quite... 
Just a quick little post today. I have been knitting to ease the boredom of being 90% restricted to the horizontal position, and I found a pattern that was just adorable.
This little lamb took me one Star Trek movie and two episodes of NCIS to finish.
You can download this pattern free from Fuzzy Mitten. If you’re a knitter, you really should check out her site. She has a ton of really cute figures... 
So, the way I’m supposed to write goes something like this:
(Table A)
1. Get a brilliant idea
2. Flesh out idea in a rudimentary outline
3. Name characters, decide on location, that type of jazz
4. Sit down every day and just flippin’ write it.
But…
Other than blog posts and emails, I haven’t written anything in months (and months and months). It feels wretched, but sometimes life... 
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.
