Great YA Contemporary Fantasy THE MOS...
When Chloe and Zoe Tozier, orphaned teenage twins growing-up in their grandmothers quirky but seemingly dull Kansas museum/mansion, follow a wayward sparrow down a mysterious secret hallway to a basement they never knew existed—odd things start to happen fast. They discover a huge mosaic, hidden in the secret room, but it’s half destroyed. Replacing just […]
THE MIDSUMMER WIFE in Final Edit
I ended last year’s posts saying I would be better at posting… and here it is early February. So much for promises, hmm? But I had a ton of family come visit, then I got the flu (coincidence? I think not), then this and that happened. And well, here we are.
Five Star Reads of Q4 2017
Let me wrap up some of the great reads of 2017. I have read some terrific books in the last quarter of this year, and realize I haven’t posted all of them. So here, in digest form, are the 6 terrific books I’d like to share with you!
Virtual Fantasy Con is ON!
It’s Day One of Virtual Fantasy Con! To celebrate, I’m giving away Book One of my Arthurian Fantasy novella series ANYA: HEALER OF CAMELOT.
Book Review: EDGE OF DOOM by E.M. Swi...
The EDGE OF DOOM is the second book in the Haruspex Trilogy, and it’s a doozy!
Writing Sexy Sex
What I’m listening to: “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt Insert Tab A into Slot B repeatedly until physical release is obtained. I believe I’ve just written the world’s most boring sentence about sex! But at the end of the day, that’s all sex is. It surely doesn’t feel that […]
Updates, Virtual Fantasy Con Announce...
Some exciting developments!
LIQUID GAMBIT
Bonnie Milani’s LIQUID GAMBIT is an outstanding piece of writing. Rarely does a writer give us the feel of an alien—their abilities to perceive (in this case smelling emotions), the way their bodies interact with their emotions (ears, fangs, paws/claws, their ruff), and so quickly establish a complex societal structure. The stakes are high […]
A Writer Writes
You become a writer by writing, the same way you become a trombone player by playing the trombone (tromboning?). One word after another, you pile them up until they are poems, flash fiction, short stories, novellas, novels, epics, serials…. you get the point.
What Does Your Character Look Like?
A recent post in the SciFi Roundtable Facebook page asked authors what their characters looked like. Many drew their characters. I can hardly draw a straight line, so I’ve never attempted that. Instead, I found pictures online.