Flashback Friday: Alas, Babylon
I’ve always held a healthy obsession with post-apocalyptic literature and dystopian novels. Everything from modern works like Wool by Hugh Howey, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, & The Giver by Lois Lowry, to older works like Alas, Babylon by Read More…
When Words Fail a Writer
As part of Magnolia Chapter One’s series on “Why Writers Write,” I posted an article entitled “When Words Fail a Writer.” If you get a moment, you should head over there and read it. It’s definitely a great article on Read More…
And soon…NorWesCon!
Later this week, I’m excited to attend NorWesCon, the largest Sci-Fi/Fantasy conference in the Pacific Northwest. While I’ll mostly be in the writing panels, I am ducking out a bit here and there to play some Munchkin, Magic, and whatever Read More…
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…
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