Fantasy and horror books and blogposts
Writing Excuses is one of the only podcasts I listen to. I like to explain it to my friends thusly: "THEY JUST KEPT TALKING AND I WANTED THEM TO GET TO THE POINT." My friends usually roll their eyes. Most podcasts are about an hour long and make me want to tear out my hair.... Continue Reading →
It is a bittersweet season, because into this season has come the last of the Books of the Raksura.* I discovered these books several years ago, and they remain one of my favorites of all time. Shapeshifting? Check. Sweet aerial lizard-people battles? Check. Awesome emotional tension? Check. Gender-bending? Hells yes. Basically it's everything I'd expect... Continue Reading →
You may realize that I have a lot of things generally going on in my life. I suspect this is a personality issue. I get bored, so I sign on for more stuff, and then I get overwhelmed. It might also be just a life issue - everyone is busy, as far as I can... Continue Reading →
Remember how it was the S.O.'s birthday at some point recently, and he is a huge fan of The Fifth Element? Well, he saw the trailer for Valerian and decided he wanted to see it, so off we went to the theater. I didn't go into this movie with a lot of expectations, honestly. Thank goodness, because I... Continue Reading →
I've been really tied up with dayjob stuff recently, and I know that is hurting my ability to give you good blog content. Fear not! There are some interesting projects coming down the pike. For example, I'm working on putting together an IRL monthly reading group where we will read one book or novella a... Continue Reading →
Friends, as of two weeks ago we were halfway through 2017 and I realized that it's probably about time to check on how I'm doing with my New Year's Resolutions. So here they are, and here's some reflection on how well I've met my goals. To make this marriage thing stick. To get the wedding... Continue Reading →
To everything there is a season. A time for brainstorming, and a time for reading books. A time for scribbling in notebooks, and a time for typing. A time for writing, and a time for edits. It is my time for edits. You know that I have finished the DoM draft, and that I have... Continue Reading →
I've been waiting a long time to write this post, because I wanted to make sure that I was writing it for the right reasons. Reading this article by Tabby Biddle at Huffington Post helped me clarify that I was not just being a random crazy person, and that my feelings were shared by at least... Continue Reading →
So, honeymoon! What did we do? Where did we go? What did we eat? All important questions, obviously. For this post I'll tell you some cool overview stuff and for later posts I'll come back and dig into some of the experiences I think will be useful from a world-building/fact-finding perspective, just because there was... Continue Reading →
Friends, Romans, countrymen....we are back in the USA, and back at home! Which means I have so many things to tell you about, because I was gone for two weeks which is literally forever. Coming back this week has been crazy hard, what with getting back into the swing of things, and the next few... Continue Reading →
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