Scrivener Saturday: Backups to Dropbox
This week’s Scrivener Saturday is on Backups. If I had a dollar for every time an author lost their project/novel, I’d be rich. We’ve all lost something due to hard drive crashes or corrupt USB drives. One of the things Read More…
Flashforward Friday: Comets!
This week’s Flashforward Friday: Comets! If you’ve been living in a cave, you might have missed the wonderful news that we landed on a freaking comet. Imagine throwing a dart and hitting a bulls-eye over a million miles away. Yeah. Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: A Door into Ocean
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: A Door into Ocean. A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski is one of my favorite books in feminist literature, and I love the reprint cover from 2000. Here’s a nice close up of the Read More…
Novella Done!
Members of the mailing list will rejoice (as well as others) that I just finished the promised story, Class-M Exile. It morphed from a short story to an 18,000 word novella. I still have some editing yet to do on Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: All Things Munchkin
Ah Munchkin! That glorious game. The ultimate PvP (player vs. player) game that encourages bad behavior and foul language. What’s not to love? This week’s Monday Night Gaming is on All Things Munchkin. My husband and I are huge fans Read More…
Pre-Orders & Contests
Amaskan’s Blood is up for eBook pre-order over on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple (iBooks). I’ll post when print pre-orders go up. Also, you can win an autographed copy of Amaskan’s Blood before release, along with some swag, over Read More…
Dealing with Negativity
I’m a huge fan of confronting negativity with humor, especially smarmy sarcastic humor because that’s just my style. But writers often face a deluge of negativity by way of rejection letters, negative book reviews, hate-mail, etc. In the past week Read More…
Flashback Friday: John Bellairs
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m honored to have Maia Chance, author of the Fairy Tale Fatal series, here to do a guest post on what speculative fiction novel influenced her as a writer. If you haven’t checked out Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: The Last Unicorn
This week’s Book Cover Throwback is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. This is the cover on my copy of the book, and I absolutely love it. It reminds me of the art styles from particular artists during medieval Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Blue Sun
Last week’s Monday Night Gaming covered the Firefly Board Game and most of the expansions. We finally had a chance to sit down and play the Blue Sun expansion. If you thought this game took up precious real estate before, Read More…
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