Book Cover Throwback: Astounding!
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. I just love this cover. Something about the human-like qualities on the face of the robot makes me wonder if it’s thinking, “I didn’t mean to crush him. Honest, I didn’t!” Read More…
Happy Birthday & Updates!
Today my wonderful husband turns 37. His grandmother asked us today how we got to that age already. Good question… 36 didn’t feel all that different from 20 really. So Happy Birthday to him! We’re having a fairly quiet day Read More…
Guest Post on Dialogue
I’ve got a writing/craft related guest post on dialogue over on Trollking.co.uk. The article’s called Siri-ous Dialogue & focuses on how dialogue can help push action forward. Quite a bit on show vs. tell as that goes hand-in-hand with dialogue Read More…
Flashback Friday: Rocheworld
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m honored to have educator and writer, CJ Record, here to do a guest post on what speculative fiction novel influenced him as a writer. I’ve been chewing on science fiction novels since I Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Doomsday Book
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Not only is this an EXCELLENT book, but it’s in my top five favorite books of all time. Love this book. Makes me completely rethink the bubonic plague. To see Read More…
Amaskan’s Blood Contest
Adelei–member of the Order of Amaska and main character in Amaskan’s Blood–invites you to face the trials. Test your contest entering ability now for a chance to win one of nine prizes! Open to US and Canadian residents only.Enter to Read More…
Class-M Exile Excerpt
The Class-M Exile Excerpt is now up in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats. You can download it here. If you like what you read, there are two ways to get the full 80 page novella: 1) You can Join the Read More…
Top 10 Text-to-Speech Fails
When I’m editing writing, what helps the most is to have Scrivener read out loud my novel. Having a computer read it, finds all those annoying typos or mistakes that my brain auto-corrects no matter how many times I read Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Howl’s Moving Castle
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Howl’s Moving Castle. Before it was an amazing film from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, it was an excellent novel by Diana Wynne Jones. This cover is from the reprint, but I love it so Read More…
What I’m… Updates
It’s that time of the month where I’ve updated the What I’m Reading, What I’m Writing, and What I’m Watching for those curiously inclined to check. 🙂 Lots of unique reading, zombies, and murder going on! I also added a Read More…
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