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Wednesday Whimsy Victorian Cards of Boys at Play

My brother’s birthday was fairly recently so when I looked through my box of Victorian trade (advertising) cards for this week, I decided to share the ones with boys and their games and toys.

Ido not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. SirIsaac Newton

I love...

Tuesday Teaser Interview with a D’nvannae Brother

For todays Tuesday Teaser, I thought Id do a character interview from WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM. Readers seemed pretty intrigued with one of my secondary characters, Khevan, a member of the Dnvannae Brotherhood, an order of assassin/bodyguards, serving a mysterious alien deity The Red Lady. (I get asked about a sequel featuring him all the time, and I do have the plot in mind, so itll be written at some point.)

Heres a description from the book of the first time Nick encounters Khevan, on th...

The Globe Shatters Weekend Writing Warriors

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Heres the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts todayA fun way to sample new books and find new writers!

Were onto a new story of mine, a WIP that still needs a lot of work. Mark, an ex-Special Forces soldier in the Sectors, has been hired by the Outlier Empress to rescue a kidnap victim whos been taken to the border planet Freemarket, where anythinggoes a...

Seven Fictional Women Who Influenced Me

I saw an interesting post by Katy Perry in Glamour magazineabout ten women who changed her life, which started me thinking that I should write a similar post for the blog. Only when I started making the list, I kept thinking about the women in various books who had an influence on me instead! Me as a person, not just me as a writer…So, here’s that post…in no particular order.

1. Jo inLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott – our next door neighbor in upstate New York gave me her copy to read when I...

Ships and Quotes for Wednesday

Today is the 103rd anniversary of the sinking ofTitanic, which isn’t whimsical at ALL, of course, but I decided to take ships as my theme for this Wednesday. Here’s one from a series of decorative plates I own, illustrating different famous areas of the ship. I thought the grand staircase was perhaps the most well known to share, since it’s seen in every movie aboutTitanic.

This Victorian trade, or advertising card, startled me when I first saw it, although of course the ship isn’t Titanic.Se...

Was Nebula Dream Jinxed? Tuesday Teaser

Today is the 103rd anniversary ofTitanic striking an ice berg (she sank at 2:20 AM on the 15th). Over at USA Today/Happily Ever After today, I’m talking aboutTitanic and how the events of that ill fated cruise influenced my science fiction novel Wreck of the Nebula Dream.

For the Tuesday Teaser, I thought I’d give you the deleted Prolog toWreck of the Nebula Dream from my Archived posts:

The heroine tells the hero at one point that there were rumors the ship had been jinxed by an accident du...

Did He Choose Wisely? Weekend Writing Warriors

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Heres the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts todayA fun way to sample new books and find new writers!

Were onto a new story of mine, a WIP that still needs a lot of work. Mark, an ex-Special Forces soldier in the Sectors, has been hired by the Outlier Empress to rescue a kidnap victim whos been taken to the border planet Freemarket, where anythinggoes a...

Victorian Insect Ladies Wednesday Whimsy

A few weeks ago I did a Wednesday Whimsy on Victorian trade card illustrations of people as flowers, in honor of Spring. Well, the obvious accompaniment to the flowers is the insects of the garden, so I’m sharing a few today. The Victorians seemed to derive much enjoyment from depicting nonhumans as people – wait till you see the Veggie People! But i’m saving them for Halloween because some of them are pretty scary.

I like the insect ladies on the Liebeg cards. They’re advertising for a meat...

Deleted Scene From Wreck of the Nebula Dream for Teaser Tuesday

This deleted scene is from my archived posts, shared it a couple of years ago on Weekend Writing Warriors.

(We do know there’ll be an HEA for Wreck of the Nebula Dream, right? so this isn’t a spoiler…)

This scene takes place on the Sectors battleshipAndromeda, after Nick has given his formal report to the Admiral and has been released to seek medical attention. He goes to sickbay but refuses treatment until hes seen Mara.

She lay sound asleep on the hospital bed, hair tousled on the pillow, s...

Pick For Us Weekend Writing Warriors

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Heres the link to theWeekend Writing Warriorscentral page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts todayA fun way to sample new books and find new writers!

Were onto a new story of mine, a WIP that still needs a lot of work. Mark, an ex-Special Forces soldier in the Sectors, has been hired by the Outlier Empress to rescue a kidnap victim whos been taken to the border planet Freemarket, where anythinggoes...