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…
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…

Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Tonight I will be getting my game on in costume, but in the meantime, I have some bits & goodies for you. It probably won’t mean as much yet without reading Amaskan’s Blood, which I know you’re patiently Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Death
This week’s Book Cover Throwback is from the book On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. The book’s main character is Death, who is featured prominently on the cover driving a snazzy sports car. I think what I love most Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Sandman
This week’s Book Cover Throwback comes with a twist: It’s the cover to Sandman: The Dream Huntersby the always awesome artist, Yoshitaka Amano. (Plus, there’s a second bonus piece after that–promotional art from the video game series, Final Fantasy, which Read More…
Flasbhack Friday: Ship who Sang
In all my years of conventions and conferences, I’ve never caught “Con Crud” –until Geek Girl Con. I’ve got a bit of a head cold this week, so my apologies if my Flashback Friday over The Ship Who Sang rambles Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: Windup Girl
This week’s Book Cover Throwback is The Windup Girl‘s cover art by Raphael Lacoste. I know this technically isn’t an old book, the cover art is an older style and just gorgeous. I love the contrast between the bazaar, the Read More…
Flashback Friday: Amber
Robert Zelazny. Talk about takin’ it back old school. Nine Princes in Amber to be exact–the first in the Amber series. This series was probably the longest series I read in middle school, having given up on Xanth with Ogre, Read More…
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