This week, Flashback Friday Goes Dark Fantasy. I’m back this week to cover Anne Bishop‘s dark fantasy novel, Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels Book #1). This book wasn’t published until 1998, two years after I graduated high school, Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn. What I Love about this Cover: There is so much going on in this cover by the always awesome Michael Whelan. Layers upon layers in this one. What I Don’t Read More…
It’s time for some reading updates, as well as updates to what I’m writing, watching, and playing. With the release of Amaskan’s Blood and the promotion that goes with a book publication, I’m woefully behind on my reading! I read Read More…
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Discworld Ankh-Morpork. Two years ago when we were just getting started in our exploration of tabletop games, we played another Discworld game called Guards! Guards!, which was overly convoluted and annoyingly complex in its rule-set Read More…
For this week’s Flashback Friday, I once again welcome back author, J. L. Forrest, here for a guest post on how dystopias influenced him (and others) as writers. Two weeks ago, from a science-fiction writer’s point of view, I explored Read More…
I’m the featured author over on The Oak Wheel today. I’ve also got a guest post entitled, “Dreaded Differences,” which talks about the prejudice I experienced growing up and how it influenced the writing of my upcoming novella, Class-M Exile. Read More…
To follow up last week’s Magician Apprentice, this week’s Book Cover Throwback: Magician Master, also by Raymond E. Feist. Both books were bound together originally as one book titled simply Magician, which I owned after I read them separately. (I Read More…
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Ticket to Ride (Base Game). This is one of those games that is loads of fun and fairly flexible for all level of players. It has a decent amount of strategy and luck, yet maintains Read More…
This week’s Scrivener Saturday: Meta-Data. Last week, we covered Keywords, which can be used to help track POV, setting, characters, etc. Scrivener Meta-Data can do the same thing, just a bit differently. I prefer Meta-Data for certain things and keywords for Read More…
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m honored to have author, Veronica Scott, here for a guest post on how Andre Norton‘s works influenced her as a writer. Thanks for having me as your guest today! The earliest influence on Read More…
