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Interview With Faith Hunter

Today, I present an interview with someone who has become one of my favorite writers, and one of my favorite people, in speculative fiction:  Faith Hunter.  Faith and I first met a couple of years ago at a writers’ conference.  We were both instructors at the conference, and we were introduced to each other by our agent.  It was like meeting a long-lost twin.  Not that we look alike -- she’s much cuter than I am -- but we just clicked in every way.  Our friendship grew quickly, and before long w

Twilight Visitor

 Last night, just around dusk, Nancy called us all into the family room that looks out on our back yard so we could see the young Barred Owl that sat perched on the edge of the swing set.  The bird remained there for quite a while, looking around, allowing itself to be checked out by a hummingbird that buzzed around it for several moments, and a pair of nesting Carolina Wrens that emerged from the forest to scold it loudly for coming near their home.  Occasionally the owl made a small screeching

A New Post About Point of View

Today's post, "Binding Character and Narrative:  Point of View Revisited," can be found at the Magical Words site, a blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with fellow fantasy writers Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C. E. Murphy.  I hope you'll visit the site and enjoy today's post.

More GOP Implosion -- What Fun!

Like so many of my LJ friends, I'm puzzled by the news out of Alaska today.  Sarah Palin's resignation is, as political strategery goes, pretty bizarre.  And her rambling, self-aggrandizing speech justifying the move was one of the worst I've ever heard by a Presidential contender.  At this point I think that the GOP field has been winnowed to Newt-Man, Romney, Huckabee, and my dark-horse pick, Haley Barbour.  They should all be sending Mark Sanford thank you notes....

Website Update

Did some work on my web site yesterday -- added a permanent link to Magical Words, the group blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with fellow fantasy authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy.  I also put in a new page.  Last year  I had a short story published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.  The story is called "Cassie's Story" and now that IGMS's 1 year exclusive on the story has expired, I've added it to my website.  So if you haven't read "C

EIGHT MEN OUT and the Game I Used to Love

We watched John Sayles' movie Eight Men Out last night.  Netflix, of course.  It's an old movie.  It came out in 1988, right around the same time as Field of Dreams, when  hollywood seemed to be in the midst of a mini-obsession with the Shoeless Joe Jackson story.  Hollywood does this -- remember when Tombstone and Wyatt Earp came out within months of each other, after we'd gone years without seeing a movie about Earp?  But I digress....

For those of you who don't know, Eight Men Out tells the st

A Post About Troubleshooting Your Book

Today's post, "A Writer's Troubleshotting Guide," can be found at Magical Words, the writing blog site I maintain with fellow fantasy writers, Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy.  Please visit the site and enjoy!

Lazy Bones and the Three Stars....

My daughters swam in a meet this morning.  They did great.  Their relay teams all took first place, and between them in their individual races they took three firsts, a second, a third and a sixth.  They also had a great time.

My wife couldn't be at the meet, because she was running (swimming?  Biking?  Doing?) what's known as a sprint triathlon.  She had a great time, too.

And me?  I cheered.  I encouraged.  I praised.  And then I took a nap.