Book Cover Throwback: Dune
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Dune by Frank Herbert. What I Love about this Cover: A nice, old-style sci-fi cover. That’s what it is. Simple and yet it gets the job done. What I Don’t Love about this Cover: Based Read More…
Writer 2.0 Podcast
My “Top Ten Ways to NOT Write” was featured at the end of A.C. Fuller’s Writer 2.0 Podcast today. It’s quite the humorous list! You can give it a listen by going here: http://acfuller.com/episode-25-reporter-and-author-julia-park-tracey-2/ My list begins about 53 minutes Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Five Tribes
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Five Tribes. Five Tribes is a simple, yet complex game that we played with our friend Will. After a rousing game of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork, we needed something simple to finish up our weekend visit to Cafe Read More…
Flashback Friday: Bellairs & Alter Egos
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m honored to have YA author, G. G. Silverman, here for a guest post on how John Bellairs‘ works influenced her as a writer and storyteller. When Raven Oak asked me if I’d contribute Read More…
Quick Poll for Live Stream Event
Since quite a few of you out there don’t live in the Pacific Northwest and can’t attend my Book Reading/Signing event in February, I’m planning a live streaming event with a reading, followed by a Q&A session. You’ll be able Read More…
Seattle Geekly
The wonderful folks of Seattle Geekly interviewed me about Amaskan’s Blood and various geeky topics like Dark Dungeons, Anne McCaffrey‘s Pern, D20’s, and more. Also on the podcast is an interview with author Kristi Charish and the normal “How Geek was Read More…
Book Cover Throwback: CYOAS
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: CYOAS, otherwise known as a Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In particular, Dragonfire by Jody Lynn Nye. The CYOAS folks did two such books set in the the world of Anne McCaffrey‘s Pern: Dragonfire and the Read More…
The First 30 Days
[important]I’m posting this two days before Day 30 because I have a guest author on Friday. I don’t like doubling up posts like that, so we’re going to pretend that January 28th is January 30th. I don’t feel like this Read More…
Monday Night Gaming: Fate Reforged
This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Fate Reforged, the newest expansion for the Magic the Gathering card game. Normally I cover tabletop games more than I cover something like Magic, but with the new expansion release, I had to tackle it. Read More…
Scrivener Saturday – Using Targets
This week’s Scrivener Saturday – Using Targets. With everyone covering keywords, snapshots, & other options, I feel like targets are easily overlooked, and yet they are quite powerful on their own. In Scrivener, there are two types of targets: document Read More…
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