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 more of my friends are getting published, I’ve become aware that I haven’t been a very good writer-friend! I never knew it, and they were too polite to let me know what more I could have been doing. Sure, I’ve been buying books from folks I’ve met on Twitter, blogs, and Facebook. Buying books is great, but there is more we can do, and now that I know, I thought I’d share it... 
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #26’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #26: “Liar, Liar”. Everybody lies. Evil characters and even good ones do it too. For us, it’s a fantastic source of conflict. So this week, consider deception. Your piece can be fiction or non-fiction based on observation or... 
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... 
I’ve been horribly slack this week about visiting blogs, I know! I keep hoping to have time to catch up, but between having a sick teenager at the beginning of the week and making a major breakthrough on my storyline for Wildings, I really haven’t taken much time at all to socialise. (Ahh, Twitter… I miss you!) I do hope to get back on track with my bloggy friends very soon!
Today will be... 
I’ve thought about writing some shorter works lately, but realised that it’s been a very long time, and I think I might have lost my touch. I haven’t really tried to do much in the way of short stories since university. It seems that all of my story ideas feel like they would take 250 pages to tell.
So it seemed perfect timing when Sally over at THE ELEPHANT IN THE WRITING ROOM...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #25’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #26: “Fish out of Water”. Sometimes it’s easy to tell when someone is out of their element. It can be their clothing, their manner, what they’re carrying with them… so many things give them away. This week, observe (or... 
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... 
I confess. I love measuring things. I don’t know if it’s a competitive streak, or it’s related to my word-meter + office supply obsession I mentioned yesterday, but ooooh how I do.
I found this little “test” for writers yesterday called The Wasteline Test. It measures the overall flab of your writing by checking out your use of passive voice, abstract nouns, prepositions,... 
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... 
When I first saw the write-up for Me and My Ghoulfriends, a paranormal romance by Rose Pressey, I wasn’t sure what to think. “There’s always fun to be had on a ghoul’s night out. By day, Larue Donavan is a down-to-earth bookstore owner. But by night, she’s a world-renowned psychic investigator dedicated to helping lost spirits find peace. Dead people won’t leave... 
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.
