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March 10, 2017
Social, Civil, and Savvy: a new non-fiction book
So I’ve been working very hard, and I’ve dropped a few hints, and I’m finally ready to reveal it: I have a new training and behavior book coming out soon! (Animal training and behavior is my day job, when I’m not letting my imaginary friends irritate each other for fun and profit.) … Continue reading
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March 2, 2017
Look Over There
I’m guest-posting today over at Rhonda Parrish’s blog about her newest anthology — with 26 writers, including me — called D is for Dinosaur. Check out what I learned to write this story!
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February 27, 2017
The Songweaver’s Vow: The Wyrmhole
This entry is part of 7 in the series The Songweaver's Vow: Easter Eggs & BackgroundToday’s another entry in the Background & Research posts for The Songweaver’s Vow. When Thor goes to fight Jörmungandr, he seeks the sea-sized serpent at a place he calls the Wyrmhole, baiting him out with a bull … Continue reading
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February 25, 2017
The Norse Pantheon Family Tree
This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series The Songweaver's Vow: Easter Eggs & BackgroundAnyone who’s spent more than three minutes reading up on the Norse pantheon — or pretty much any polytheistic pantheon, really — knows it can get complicated in a hurry. So when I stumbled … Continue reading
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February 24, 2017
The Death of Baldr
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series The Songweaver's Vow: Easter Eggs & BackgroundSpoiler alert: Baldr dies. Okay, seriously, there be spoilers ahead. Mythology nerds likely already know some of what goes down in The Songweaver’s Vow, but if you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you … Continue reading
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February 23, 2017
Norse Mythology: What We Know
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Songweaver's Vow: Easter Eggs & BackgroundSo to start, we don’t know very much about Norse mythology. Oh, sure, we have quite a lot of stories, and we’ve made them into quite a lot more stories. But we don’t really … Continue reading
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February 22, 2017
Kennings
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The Songweaver's Vow: Easter Eggs & BackgroundI’ve loved kennings since I first learned what one was. My formal introduction, the first time I knew a kenning for what it was, was swan-road, a Norse kenning for the sea, and with … Continue reading
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February 21, 2017
Release Day! The Songweaver’s Vow & D is for Dinosaur
You know it’s been a busy month when you have three book releases in two weeks. Fortunately, two of those are anthologies. Covalent Bonds dropped on Valentine’s Day — because romance — and D is for Dinosaur hits the streets today — because dinosaurs. Covalent Bonds is collection of geeky … Continue reading
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February 20, 2017
The Beto-beto-san
If you’ve read Kitsune-Mochi, you might remember a scene where Murame hears footsteps trailing her down a mountain? That’s the beto-beto-san, named onomatopoeiatically for the beto-beto sound of walking in wooden geta on stone. Susan Spann, author of the Shinobi mysteries, talks today on Murder is Everywhere about her real life … Continue reading
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February 9, 2017
Guest Cover Reveal: Halayda
If you like Celtic magic and myth, you might want to check out today’s guest cover. A mortal alchemist. A faerie king. A bond that transcends death. Betrayed by a trusted mentor, Sylvie Imanthiya hides on the fringes of society, caring for half-fae orphans and trading her alchemical creations on … Continue reading
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