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…
When Words Fail a Writer
As part of Magnolia Chapter One’s series on “Why Writers Write,” I posted an article entitled “When Words Fail a Writer.” If you get a moment, you should head over there and read it. It’s definitely a great article on Read More…
And soon…NorWesCon!
Later this week, I’m excited to attend NorWesCon, the largest Sci-Fi/Fantasy conference in the Pacific Northwest. While I’ll mostly be in the writing panels, I am ducking out a bit here and there to play some Munchkin, Magic, and whatever Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Hobbit
aka Greedy Little Midgets & Why My 12 Year-Old-Self Sucked I wish I could say that I enjoyed every science fiction & fantasy novel I ever picked up as a child, but I can’t. I’d be lying if I did. Read More…
Magnolia Chapter One
Being a local Seattle writer, I’m happy to announce the existence of a group for local writers who live in the Magnolia/Queen Anne neighborhoods in Seattle: Magnolia Chapter One is a place to network, get help and tips about writing, Read More…
Flashback Friday: Watership Down
Watership Down by Richard Adams was the first adult novel I read as a child where the main character wasn’t a human. When much younger, I’d enjoyed children’s chapter books such as Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe and Charlotte’s Read More…
The Day of Fools
April 1st…The Day of Fools. It also happens to be sci-fi author, Anne McCaffrey’s birthday. If she were alive, she’d be 88 today. I always remembered it was Anne’s birthday because she shared her day with my grandmother, who died Read More…
Post-Con Zombie-ism
In between my propping my eyelids open with copious amounts of caffeine and a pry-bar, I’ve seen an awful lot of people on social-media commenting on the zombie-plague that is affecting those attendees of the Emerald City Comicon. What I Read More…
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