Hormones, Caffeine, or Writing a Romance novel?
Right now my nerves are on fire, I’m jittery as hell, and yet I’m also so exhausted I can barely move. I might be about to cry, or scream, or maybe ...
Author: ctan
Daron's Guitar Chronicles Book Seven is here! Meme contest!
Tadaa! Here we are folks, with a new volume of Daron’s Guitar Chronicles finally out in ebook! Volume seven begins in January 1990 (whoaaa…. the nin...
Chat with Cecilia Tan and Daron this Tuesday!
To celebrate the release of Daron’s Guitar Chronicles Book Seven, I’ll be doing TWO chats this coming Tuesday: 8-9pm Daron and I will be in the new ...
Top Ten Ways To NOT End a Series: An #RWA15 Workshop
Just came from the panel/class on “How Not to End a [Romance] Series” at RWA 2015 and I am rushing up to my room to see if I can crank out a blog po...
Magic U characters took the Myers Briggs test: the results were startlingly accurate
So, Spellbinding launched yesterday. This is a collection of short stories in the Magic University universe–seven of them by me and ten by other writers p...
Web Serial Toolbox: everything you need to start a fiction serial
This is the handout for my Web Serial Toolbox workshop, which I’m teaching today at Readercon at 6pm. I’m posting it here as a reference document fo...
Spellbinding is launched! Write a poem, win an autographed copy!
It’s launch day for Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University! This collection of short stories include seven by me–two never before published a...
Win a copy of Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University from Cecilia Tan!
This giveaway is over now! But you can still enter the poetry contest until July 17 to win a copy here: https://www.ceciliatan.com/archives/2427/ Only four days...
Now Live: Golden Flogger Award Finalists List
I just got word from Doctor Charley with the books that made the finalist list in the Golden Flogger Awards and am excited to share them here! I see several of ...
I went chasing the aurora… and caught it!
Last night we went seeking the wonders of the world. And we found them. I had read on Twitter early in the evening that a “geomagnetic storm” was go...