Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
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... 
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #32’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
Writing Adventure Group Topic #33: “Rescue Me”.Spendthrifts save money, princes save princesses, we save files, leftovers, and do our best to keep our children from harm. This week, write about saving something, anything, from a horrible fate. (Even if that... 
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... 
For the Writing Adventure Group topic: Altered States as well as the #fridayflash group.
“I think I have a fever.” Genevieve gathered up her long hair in a twist to keep it from tugging if she rolled over in the night. The heat behind her eyes and the sweat down her back didn’t worry her though. No, it was the little girl standing beside her bed that gave her alarm. Dressed in a tutu and cowboy...
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... 
For some reason, this week I’ve been hearing a buncha-lotta excuses! My cat died, I’ve been slammed at work, my secretary has been on vacation, the dog ate my homework….
I also hear authors making excuses about why they haven’t finished a manuscript or haven’t sent somthing out, why friends are getting published while they are still plinking around with an outline. It usually...
Note: With finishing up the current round of edits on Ordinary Angels and getting it back to my editor yesterday, I completely forgot about the WAG post. Oops! Mea culpa.
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #31’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
Writing Adventure Group Topic #32: “Altered State”. In the past week,... 
I wrote out a big, long, funny post about my miserable week, and then Wordpress ate it. Honestly I don’t think I have the wherewithal to write it again — my brain cells are fried from being, well, miserable for the past week (health issues, mostly).
So instead of trying to recreate the magic, I’m going to just give you a link to a good article about writing, which I had planned to share...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #30’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
Writing Aventure Group Topic #31: “Laughter”. There are many types of and reasons for laughter: twitters, titters, guffaws, snickers, snorts, belly laughs and bursts of inappropriate giggles at a funeral. Laughter can mean many things and be... 
The Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan is the first in the Black Magician’s Trilogy, although trilogy is perhaps the wrong word, since after the publication of the three, Canavan published a prequel and then a subsequent standalone novel. Regardless of the time frame, The Magician’s Guild is the one readers will want to take on first.
Canavan creates a wonderful fantasy world devoid of 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.
