C.M. Spivey's Blog

I was a clumsy child. My ankles were constantly sprained, my knees frequently bruised. I felt like I was always bumping into things. Clumsy, yet careful–unlike my brothers, I never broke a bone and never needed stitches. I went bouldering with my husband, rock-climbing without a harness. We climbed 14-foot walls and when we got to the…

What a whirlwind the past few days have been! As most of you know, on January 30th I hosted a fashion show book launch to celebrate the release of From Under the Mountain. This show was the culmination of more than six months of work, a project that was honestly more exciting and anxiety-inducing than my…

In case you missed it, From Under the Mountain is now officially published. *cue screaming* Now, I’ve published stuff before. But this is different. The “Web” novellas, as much as I love them, have been about exploration and experimentation with writing, publishing, marketing, the whole shebang. Mountain is better, more…permanent. And because it’s better, because this is…

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that a lot of my posts are art-related. Over the past year or so, I’ve been getting back into art and doing a lot of trial and error with character design and medium. The subject of almost all this experimentation has been Guerline, the main character of From…

Foz Meadows is absolutely my favorite SFF & fandom blogger/critic. One of the reasons I love her blog so much is that it raises questions and possibilities about things I love, like Supernatural, and things I haven’t read/seen, like The Traitor Baru Cormorant. I started watching Teen Wolf because of Meadows’ discussion of it. She’s an incredibly thoughtful and…

We’re just over a week away from the release of From Under the Mountain, which is pretty hard to believe. Readers of this blog may remember that this book is one I’ve worked on for over ten years, and I’ve been reflecting this month on what it means to put a final polish on something like…

I’m something of a serial hobbyist. This is true despite the fact that one of my hobbies, writing, is now my job. I suppose it’s a holdover from my high school days, when I did a lot of creative extracurriculars. I cultivated a lot of skills in areas I really enjoyed. Some of it persisted…

Happy 2016, everyone! One of my resolutions is to start blogging again. I think I managed six posts in the last year? A funny thing happened as I became more recognizable in my little corner of the internet (which isn’t very recognizable at any rate, but still). I’ve found myself shying away from the kind…

I am SO excited to finally be sharing this with all of you! It’s hard to believe that we’re just about a month and a half away from the day From Under the Mountain will be sent out into the world. I’m having all those gut-churning shifts between excitement and terror. But my feelings about this cover are ALL…

As I write this sentence, there are 15 hours left in my IndieGoGo campaign. The campaign was (is) to raise money for the production of a high fantasy fashion show to celebrate the launch of my high fantasy book, From Under the Mountain, this January. Mountain has been a guinea pig for me in many, many ways. When…