Flashback Friday: Gulliver’s Travels
The first time I read Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published in 1726), I was ten. My father and I were up in Michigan visiting my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember it was the holidays, and we Read More…
“It must be nice not having to work…”
In the 17 months since I retired teaching to write full-time, I’ve heard that sentence from more people than I care to mention. Some of them friends and family. Some of them people who want to be writers. The other Read More…
Flashback Friday: The White Raven
I read The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson in 8th grade, with no knowledge that it was a retelling of the Celtic legend about Tristan and Iseult. In fact, I’d never even heard the legend of Tristan and Iseult in Read More…
Real reality? Why I can’t stand some fiction…
I just finished reading Insurgent (2nd book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth) and enjoyed it enough that book 3 is on its way to my mailbox (thanks Amazon Prime!). Honestly, I enjoyed Book II more than Book I. Read More…
Flashback Friday: Crystal Singer & My Alter-Ego
Published in 1982, Crystal Singer was penned by Anne McCaffrey as a result from events in her personal life. If you don’t know a lot about Anne McCaffrey, she was a musician and opera singer for a bit of her Read More…
Siri-ous Dialogue
This is more of a craft-of-writing post than a post for the readers, but anyone is welcome to read it! Magnolia Chapter One is focusing on the craft of dialogue this month. Today, my article entitled “Siri-ous Dialogue” went up Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Mists of Avalon
EDIT: Since writing this post, I’ve learned about the author’s history of child molestation and abuse. I can no longer support MZB’s works or this book. You can read more on that here. 876 pages. That’s the length of Marion Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Time Machine
When I was a kid, I thought that traveling in something like a time machine would be fabulous. The ability to see history unfold–in my child mind, I was really thinking the ability to change history. My brain didn’t comprehend Read More…
Sleep? How’d that get here?
The day after a con is always wrought with copious amounts of caffeine (preferably intravenously!) and bleary eyes as one catches up in the backlog of email that has amassed while one was away. Writers are no exception to this Read More…
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…
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