Welcome to the official site of India Drummond – urban fantasy, sci-fi, and romance author. Ordinary Angels, her debut novel, comes out April 2011!
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #24’s participants (at the bottom of the post).
WAG Topic #25: “Crimes and Misdemeanours”. We all break rules from time to time (just look at past WAG posts to see evidence of that!) and our characters usually have to do that in order to experience change and growth and to add a little spice and... 
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... 
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... 
Today is my wedding anniversary. Yes, nine years with a Certain Highlander… and yes, that thumbnail is of our wedding in Coconino National Forest in Arizona. (If you’re reading via RSS reader, email, or mobile device, you’ll have to click through to see it.)
So, a quickie blog post with some links I’ve saved over the past week. (The Certain Highlander is not a morning person, so I... 
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...
Join the Writing Adventure Group! All writers/bloggers welcome. WAG Guide here. The full list of WAG #23’s participants! We had some really good ones last week!
WAG Topic #24: “Unexpected”. Surprise is the hardest thing to fake (in real life and in fiction), but something essential to a well-written story. So observe (or imagine) someone who is experiencing something they didn’t see coming.... 
Just a quickie post today, since I’m feeling somewhat motivated and I don’t want to ruin it by babbling here when I could be babbling in a Word file.
This week on Twitter there was talk of the Procrastination Monster, our stories motivating us… to do the laundry, and a lot of my friends seem to be either blocked up or so busy they can’t see straight. I saw this quote on The ... 
[This is for the Writing Adventure Group topic "Ripples".]
His words were barbed wire, shot out of his mouth at terrifying speed, aimed where I was softest.
I saw his profile on Facebook the other day. I’m not sure why I looked. Perverse curiousity? I don’t love him anymore. I don’t think about him unless something reminds me. But still I looked. I found his dad’s name first, then... 
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.
