Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
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 hate the title of my current project. Really hate it.
Titles are funny for me. I usually change them several times as a project grows. Ordinary Angels was originally called Angel in Blue Shorts. I think the current title is much better!
My epic fantasy novel was originally called Farsight. But then in 1995 Robin Hobb published The Farseer Trilogy. I know there are often books with the same title out...
My Documents/Writing folder is reasonably well organised: Individual folders for each of the five manuscripts that could be considered active (five? wtf?), a folder for documents from my publisher, one for friends’ work that I’ve been asked to edit or review, another called ‘Mine-Misc’ for bits of projects that I’d like to work on, idea notes, or pages that I’ve started... 
Today just some quick news:
An interview! Find out some truly strange things about me over at Virtual Onion today! What would I tell aliens about my book? What if I were trapped in an elevator with a cupcake? Do my cats really have mind control powers? Yes, the answers to this and other pressing questions in a hilarious author interview with Ms. Onion.
Writing Update: I’ve finished the first batch of... 
I’ve started the editing process on Ordinary Angels, my new paranormal novel (out from Lyrical Press, Spring 2011), and people ask me all the time how it’s going. It’s difficult to describe in terms that would make sense to most people. I’m sure most publishing houses have their own processes, but for me, the first process was a thorough scrubbing.
I’m surprised at how much... 
I ended up having a great writing weekend, although it did leave me a bit brain-dead. I didn’t end up doing the official Write Your Ass Off social activity, mostly because I was so much in the zone that I didn’t want to socialise, I just wanted to write.
Then first thing Monday morning, I got an email from the editor I’ll be working with on Ordinary Angels. Oh boy… lots of... 
Some of you eagle-eyed readers have noticed I added word count meters to the My Fiction page to the blog. (I love word count meters. I can’t explain it. It’s akin to my love of office supplies somehow.) What you might not have noticed is that the status on my paranormal novel Ordinary Angels has gone from “Complete and looking for a home” to “Complete!”
That’s... 
This week has been a tough one! I’ve been thinking about this week’s WAG topic: “The Unexpected” since Friday, and I’ve realised that very little surprises me these days. The topic was: “So observe (or imagine) someone who is experiencing something they didn’t see coming. It can be something big or small.”
Determined to observe surprise, I saw the raised... 
Got a delivery from Amazon yesterday for books that I can’t get on my Sony eReader. (WTF is up with that? I want all books, right here, right now!)
So much of my weekend will be spent wrapped up on the couch (or in my bedroom when football matches are on) surrounded with a pile of books. (It’s not that I can’t read during football matches… it’s that I can’t read... 
My characters are tying me in knots this week, partially because I’ve been under the weather (they pounce when I’m weak) and partly because I think I’ve been trying to make them do things the story just isn’t wanting them to do. When it’s me against the story, the story always wins.
I had wanted my new sci-fi to be a sexy scifi romance, but … it’s just not. The... 
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.
