Book Club Takes on Amaskan’s Blood
The Sparkle Motion Book Club recently read Amaskan’s Blood as part of a special selection over the holidays. They met on January 13th to discuss my novel and invited me to join them virtually via Google Hangouts. We had quite Read More…
Scrivener Saturday – Importing Websites
This week’s Scrivener Saturday – Importing Websites. This is another one of those undervalued offerings from Scrivener, and one I find especially helpful when I’m up against a deadline and don’t want to get sucked in by the realm of Read More…
Flashback Friday: Magic Tree House
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m happy to have SF/F author, Stuart Thaman, here for a guest post on how the Magic Tree House series introduced him to the world of fantasy, and how those works influenced him as Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Dune
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Dune by Frank Herbert. What I Love about this Cover: A nice, old-style sci-fi cover. That’s what it is. Simple and yet it gets the job done. What I Don’t Love about this Cover: Based Read More…
Writer 2.0 Podcast
My “Top Ten Ways to NOT Write” was featured at the end of A.C. Fuller’s Writer 2.0 Podcast today. It’s quite the humorous list! You can give it a listen by going here: http://acfuller.com/episode-25-reporter-and-author-julia-park-tracey-2/ My list begins about 53 minutes Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Five Tribes
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Five Tribes. Five Tribes is a simple, yet complex game that we played with our friend Will. After a rousing game of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, we needed something simple to finish up our weekend visit to Cafe Read More…
Flashback Friday: Bellairs & Alter Egos
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m honored to have YA author, G. G. Silverman, here for a guest post on how John Bellairs‘ works influenced her as a writer and storyteller. When Raven Oak asked me if I’d contribute Read More…
Quick Poll for Live Stream Event
Since quite a few of you out there don’t live in the Pacific Northwest and can’t attend my Book Reading/Signing event in February, I’m planning a live streaming event with a reading, followed by a Q&A session. You’ll be able Read More…
Seattle Geekly
The wonderful folks of Seattle Geekly interviewed me about Amaskan’s Blood and various geeky topics like Dark Dungeons, Anne McCaffrey‘s Pern, D20’s, and more. Also on the podcast is an interview with author Kristi Charish and the normal “How Geek was Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: CYOAS
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: CYOAS, otherwise known as a Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In particular, Dragonfire by Jody Lynn Nye. The CYOAS folks did two such books set in the the world of Anne McCaffrey‘s Pern: Dragonfire and the Read More…
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