(Dianne) Fox Writes

“Go watch him.” Cyrus glared at Dane. “Perhaps you won’t have to look after him, after all.” The door slammed and Dane was left in the hallway, shut out.
He wanted to punch something. Punching things was what he was good at, beating things, fighting, but not caring for things. He wanted to snarl at Cyrus [...]

Tatterdemalion is out now!
Deep runs the world of magic—and desire.
Lindsay Carrington is a prisoner of his life—first in the mundane world, then in the military testing facility where his parents sent him to have his magic dissected, studied and “fixed”. When he finally escapes, freedom comes at great cost. The man who rescues him from [...]

“TATTERDEMALION is a love story set within a deeper, much wider story about society and acceptance. I look forward to more visits to the world of the FOUNDATIONS OF MAGIC.”
4 KISSES
–Angelina, TwoLips Reviews (read the review here)
“If you are looking for an unusual paranormal story with a strong romantic plot then you can’t go much wrong [...]

I spent last week visiting Anah Crow. What’s a visit between Dianne and Anah like? A lot of work. I arrived Monday afternoon (after a rather long drive and a game of 20 Questions with the border guard) and, after lunch and some downtime, we got to work.
By 1am, we’d finished the final scene in [...]

Anah and I just finished up chapter 9 of Trammel a couple days ago and have a little bit of the last chapter left to go. Now, all these chapter markers are coming straight from the outline. They definitely don’t reflect where the chapters will be once we’re finished with edits, because 10,000 words is [...]

You won’t find any April Fool’s jokes here. I’m not that funny.
I’m just settling in to the idea of a new month. Next week, I’ll be visiting Anah Crow. Other than that, it’s just lots of dayjob and writing goals.
Right now, one of the big foci in my writing is setting details. The [...]

Today is the last day of March. Where did the month go?
*looks at Trammel file*
Oh. There. Right.
So the lovely Anah Crow did some checking and, since March 9, she and I have written more than 60,000 words on Trammel. It’s not quite finished yet (we’ve just started the last scene in Chapter 8 of [...]

Back in November, Anah and I wrote the outline for Trammel, the sequel to Tatterdemalion (out in May from Samhain). In February, we revised it, adding several more chapters to bring the outline to a better ending point. And a couple weeks ago, we started writing the first draft. The first chapter went quickly, and [...]

This morning, I got an email that brought an immediate smile to my face. Final cover art!
Not too long ago, our editor for Tatterdemalion sent us an early draft of the cover art, and then another, and another, each time asking for our opinions. We were pleased with the first draft we saw, but by [...]

Yesterday, I came home from a lovely visit with the lovely Anah Crow, in which we crocheted, watched the first couple days of the Olympics, and did tight outlines of the two books that follow Tatterdemalion in the Foundations of Magic trilogy. We also, with the help of our awesome editor (Anne Scott), picked out a back-of-book excerpt for Tatterdemalion, and received an early ARC of Tatterdemalion itself. No cover art yet, but the book isn’t coming out until mid-May!