Updates

"Flying Kite, Crashing Ship" will be releasing in January now, not March. Yay! I'll be getting the links all reset and such in a couple of weeks.

I'm redoing the website and blog, so that it's the same theme. I love this blog theme, so I'll be moving the website to this style. The Engineer will be jazzing it up a bit and making it more customizable for me (he's helpful like that). We both have holidays this month, so you'll be seeing some changes closer to Christmas and the new year.

Also, I'm adding a new theme to the site for 2011. The Author Clinic was very popular in 2010, accounting for a lot of my visitors. In fact, it was second only to pictures of the dogs. Apparently, people love corgis. Who knew!

For 2011, I'll be combining my history degree, my love of recreating lost arts, and the world of fantasy writing into (hopefully) information that will help your imaginary worlds come to life. I get very frustrated by books that seem to have their heroes eating fresh meat all of the time, no matter the season or the weather – or income level. Or, sea setting where everyone eats fresh meat and keeps their salt on the table in a shaker.

I want to bring recipes from my life living in Newfoundland, tradition foods eaten at an isolated, sea port. I want to share the domestic crafts and activities I've learned through the years from my studies, and try my hand at doing them myself.

So, if you're interested in specific things, feel free to drop me a line at kristadball@gmail.com and I'll see if I can add it to the year's information. I certainly don't know everything, so I might not know how to answer your question. But, I promise to try.

And, since I can't figure out what to call this, suggestions are appreciated :)

Stay tuned!