Flashback Friday: The Hobbit
aka Greedy Little Midgets & Why My 12 Year-Old-Self Sucked I wish I could say that I enjoyed every science fiction & fantasy novel I ever picked up as a child, but I can’t. I’d be lying if I did. Read More…
Magnolia Chapter One
Being a local Seattle writer, I’m happy to announce the existence of a group for local writers who live in the Magnolia/Queen Anne neighborhoods in Seattle: Magnolia Chapter One is a place to network, get help and tips about writing, Read More…
Flashback Friday: Watership Down
Watership Down by Richard Adams was the first adult novel I read as a child where the main character wasn’t a human. When much younger, I’d enjoyed children’s chapter books such as Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe and Charlotte’s Read More…
The Day of Fools
April 1st…The Day of Fools. It also happens to be sci-fi author, Anne McCaffrey’s birthday. If she were alive, she’d be 88 today. I always remembered it was Anne’s birthday because she shared her day with my grandmother, who died Read More…
Post-Con Zombie-ism
In between my propping my eyelids open with copious amounts of caffeine and a pry-bar, I’ve seen an awful lot of people on social-media commenting on the zombie-plague that is affecting those attendees of the Emerald City Comicon. What I Read More…
Flashback Friday: The War of the Worlds
While you enjoy this Flashback Friday, I’ll be talking craft at Emerald City Comicon. I’m excited that wonderful SF/F authors such as Cornelia Funke, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Stephenson, Hugh Howey, Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, and Dave Farland/Wolverton will be Read More…
We All Start Somewhere
A wonderful bit of humor and…maybe “uuuggh” greeting me this morning as I continued organizing my writing office. (Once I finish it, I’ll post pics. I promise!) Everything in our home is unpacked, but we still have pockets needing organization Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Last Unicorn
Ah, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. I saw the movie first—in the theater in 1982 at age five. Another one of those wonderful films like The Dark Crystal that introduced me to the land of fantasy. (If you’ve Read More…
Gender’s Role in Literature
Author Joe Hill shared this and it’s been going around Facebook all weekend, but this article from the The Independent in the UK by Katy Guest brings up an age-old debate that really should be over and done with by Read More…
Flashback Friday: Mythadventures
Another Fine Myth, the first book of many in the Mythadventures by Robert Lynn Aspirin, and later, Jody Lynn Nye was my first journey into punny, comical fantasy. Most of what I read in middle school was of a more Read More…
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