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May 14, 2014
The Plunge – The Swan Dive from Big 6 to Indie Pub by Kai Strand #Writing #Giveaway
* Kai Strand is visiting today. She is awesome online, but more awesome in person. We live in the same town and see each other periodically for lunch and Guild meetings. She doesn’t share my love of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, … Continue reading →
May 7, 2014
What I Learned Teaching my First Workshop #Writing and White Hellebore by Nicole Zoltack #Fantasy
* The topic: the page turner – how to get the reader hung up and hooked. I decided on this topic after talking to several people in my writers guild. This topic interested them most. I gathered information and combined … Continue reading →
What I Learned Teaching my First Workshop #Writing and White Hellbore by Nicole Zoltack #Fantasy
* The topic: the page turner – how to get the reader hung up and hooked. I decided on this topic after talking to several people in my writers guild. This topic interested them most. I gathered information and combined … Continue reading →
April 30, 2014
The Old Frontier: The Notorious Black Bart, Hedge Witch Release and #Giveaway, Bella’s Point
* Black Bart aka Charles Bowles aka Charles Boles aka Charles Bolton aka C. E. Bolton, wasn’t always a stagecoach robber. In fact, he came to crime later in life. He’d been a 49er, a farmer, a husband, a father, and … Continue reading →
April 23, 2014
The High Desert Up Close #Oregon Discovery
* We moved to the high desert six years ago from the lush, green Willamette Valley. Moss grew on my car there. It’s what most people think of when they hear ‘Pacific Northwest’, rainy, very rainy and mudslides. The east … Continue reading →
April 16, 2014
April 2014 Lunar Eclipse #astronomy #photography
* This past Monday was a total lunar eclipse where I live. The only trouble is, I live in the Pacific Northwest, land of clouds. It’s not as bad here as in Portland or Seattle, but it became an issue … Continue reading →
April 9, 2014
Our Solar System Grows, Bright Spot on Mars, and Sand Under a Microscope – A Day of Discovery #astronomy #science
* Expanding horizons little and big. Our world is a marvelous place. Beyond the familiar solar system of the planets we all know lies the Kuiper Belt with dwarf planets and other frozen terrestrial bodies. It begins beyond Neptune and … Continue reading →
April 2, 2014
New Frontiers, Developing a New Series #Writing
* So far I have two series out in the world. One that sells and to which I keep adding [The Backworlds]. One that doesn’t that I’ll eventually add to but not yet [Hetty Locklear]. The Backworlds does all right … Continue reading →
March 26, 2014
What Attracts You Most to a Story? #Writing
* Surprise! It’s my favorite thing – unpredictability, an uncommon path, different, original. Those things call to me like a Siren. A story about mummy dinosaurs? I’ll give it a try. Have you seen The Killing? That show kept me … Continue reading →
March 19, 2014
Are We a Computer Simulation? Worlds on Edge, Backworlds Book 5 Now Out! #scifi
* Several years ago, I saw a news report that claimed something like there was a 33% probability that we were a computer simulation. Really? It’s something I’ve mulled over since. What if we are a computer simulation? What if … Continue reading →
