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March 19, 2015
Book Cover Throwback: Small Gods
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett.
What I Love about this Cover: I came late to the Discworld party, so I didn’t read this as a child. Despite that, I love the old covers for these because there is so much detail to them.
What I Don’t Love about this Cover: I wish Sir Pratchett was still alive to give us another 70 books with awesome covers. 
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March 18, 2015
Review of Cracked!
This past week I read Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story by Janine Southard, which is a bit of magic set in Seattle, WA.
In Cracked!, there are three main characters: Morena, who’s obsessed with an iPhone sent to her by her ex-boyfriend; Suzyn, who’s addicted to cocaine and Morena’s roommate; and Magic Guy, a near-immortal magical being who enjoys tabletop gaming with the two women.
At first glance, the book appears to be about a magic iPhone, but in reality, the story is really about three people a...
Review of My Sister’s Grave
A few weeks ago, I decided to give author Robert Dugoni’s books another go and picked up his newest, My Sister’s Grave. I’d previously read The Conviction, which was a decent enough read, but it wasn’t my cup of tea.However, My Sister’s Grave was nothing like The Conviction.
The main character, Tracy Crosswhite, is a cop. When she was a teen, her sister disappeared. Edmund House was tried for her murder, but even twenty years later, Tracy doesn’t believe he was the murderer. The evidence doesn...
March 16, 2015
Monday Night Gaming: Discworld Reprised
Back on January 19th, I reviewed Discworld Ankh-Morpork, which is not only an excellent game, but set in Sir Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld. This was before his passing, and postmortem, I wanted to post it again.
Image of Terry Pratchett from GeekTrench.
This past weekend, my husband and I played this game with a friend in honor of Sir Pratchett. I never had the honor of meeting the man, but being a geek, I know what he did for the SF/F community. It’s tough when we lose a great one, and when it c...
March 14, 2015
Scrivener Saturday: Full-Screen Mode
This week’s Scrivener Saturday: Unique Ways to Use Full-Screen Mode.
By default, full-screen mode in Scrivener is rather clutter free with basic settings at the bottom:
text scale–how large you want the text to bepaper position–left, right, or center of the screenpaper width–how wide the sheet of paper is displayedkeywords–toggles the keyword pop-up box on and off (click here for more on using keywords)inspector–pulls up the side inspector so you can display document notes, keywords, meta-data...March 13, 2015
Class-M Exile Cover Reveal!
It’s time to reveal the cover of my upcoming sci-fi novella, Class-M Exile. (BTW, if you didn’t know, you can get an eBook copy of this for free if you join the conspiracy — my mailing list.)
Click the image to view it larger–which you definitely want to do!
Pre-Orders will start soon, and before I know it, release day will be here. O_O Until then, enjoy the cover & check out a sample here.
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Flashforward Friday: Unknowable Innovations
For this week’s Flashback Friday post, I’m happy to have science-fiction author, G. S. Jennsen, here again for a guest post on Unknowable Innovations.
As I understand it, Flashforward Friday is about looking at recent technological advances or discoveries and considering how they will impact the writing of science fiction. It’s a relevant question, as many people say science fiction, no matter how far into the future it looks, is always about the time in which it is written. But the aspect of...
March 12, 2015
Book Cover Throwback: Myth Directions
This week’s Book Cover Throwback: Myth Directions by Robert Asprin. (I also did a Flashback Friday on this series, which you can read here.)
What I Love about this Cover: When I first saw it, I was 12 and very much in love with fantastical creatures like unicorns and dragons. This had both.
What I Don’t Love about this Cover: The main character (Skeeve) has an odd face–not the expression but the art style on it.
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March 10, 2015
We are Invisible
Today I’m over on the Hugo Award winning site, SF Signal for a guest article on writing with disabilities and writing characters with disabilities–in particular, the often invisible chronic pain beast.
You can read the article, “We are Invisible,” by clicking on the image below:
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March 9, 2015
Live Stream Event
If you missed the book reading & signing event in Seattle last month, catch me at the virtual event. I’ll be reading from my Amazon bestselling fantasy,
Amaskan’s Blood
, and my upcoming sci-fi novella,
Class-M Exile
. I will also do a Q&A so ready those questions!When: Saturday, March 21st at 6 PM PST
Where: Google+ and YouTube
More information is on the event page at:
https://plus.google.com/events/cm3ahtjoofor6cgqroub31ur0k8
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Google+ or YouTubeEvent will be reco...
