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I’ve never attended an interactive play like this before!

Mini-me and I attended the show with Scott Banks, who was also there supporting the steampunk group he belongs to, The Artifice Club. They’re throwing a Grimm Gala Nov. 9, Steampunk Storybook and it looks pretty cool.

If you’ve never been to one of these—go!

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Are The Con Fiction Rules Gone Now?

That sounds weird, doesn’t it? Might be better to say, Rules against Con Fiction.

What that means is—before self publishing and the astoundingly awesome wave of freedom and popcorn kittens writers are experiencing in this decade, there were just certain subjects a writer didn’t write about. And I managed to bump into every one of [...]

Old Roads

I think this post is going to essentially echo a lot of what I’ve read on other writer’s blogs. The most important of which is that I, too, am slow getting my mindset out of thinking that 1 book a year is the right way to do things and that if while writing that book, [...]

A Salute

I’ve been trying to make my blog posts more frequent, especially having one every Tuesday. But given my self imposed schedule, that wasn’t happening. So maybe Wednesdays would be better. But today’s post falls on a very important day. A day for remembrance. So I think the best post I can make for September 11, 2013, is this:

We Will Not Forget

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Pen Names

Mmhmm. I’m beginning to think the subject of pen names sparks as much rawr as panser vs plotter (don’t get me started on this stupidity—they’re BOTH valid as a PROCESS).

Pen names, in my opinion, once held a much more vital role in writing and publishing than they do today. Oh I can see using a pen name if you’re a kindergarten teacher and writing Erotica . Seems like a pretty good idea to me.

But now?

I’ve been cultivating several pen names for the past couple of years—a few I haven’t even pub...

Deep Thoughts, Step’n Forward

So far 2013 has been a year of moderate highs and very, very deep lows. The worst of it being the death of my closest friend. Not having her in my life has been a hard adjustment—though I’m pretty sure my discomfort is very small compared to her family. I had a workshop planned in July and did what I could to make it there. I had very few funds and emotionally—I wasn’t ready.

Chi doing her well loved “Chi Roll”

I didn’t know I wasn’t ready until half way through. The closer the day came for me...

Back At It

Last week I returned from a week long workshop. It was more than an eye-opener. The workshop, given by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Allyson Longueira, Chris York, and Scott William Carter, with a WONDERFUL talk by Mark Lefebvre (this man is so much fun!) of Kobo’s Writing Life, was a Sneaker Wave of epic proportion.

Not only was it a coming together of over 35professionalwriters, but it was a reunion for a lot of us who started years ago learning together about writing.

It’d been...

Ever Get The Feeling…

Hotes Is Watching You?

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Everything’s Shit

Yeah….that’s not a very PG title. But it best describes the way I’ve been feeling for the past three weeks. It’s also something my best friend used to say. That and…“Time To Make The Widgets.”

That last phrase was something we came up with at some point during some conversation I can’t even remember now, as a way of telling ourselves we needed to get back to work. Lyn was a graphic artist, and I am a writer. We held insanity at bay as we, together with our husbands, raised two kids.

Our kids br...

So Quick…

I lost my best friend yesterday.

I’m not sure I’m going to recover quick from this one. I haven’t felt this kind of pain since my dad passed away. It’s raw agony. I’m going to be offline for a while.

I love you Lyn, and my life won’t be as full without you.

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