Wild Day

This entire day feels like something is trying to break through. When I took the dogs out before dawn, the wind was blowing so loudly it sounded like we were at sea. Leaves and branches are whipping around the yard in a forced dervish dance. Our trash can–and all the neighbours’–is blown sideways and down. [...]

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What Are You Still Here For?

If you are reading this blog entry that means you are neither reading Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name Of The Wind nor are you reading Peter Brett’s The Warded Man. Since both of these are two of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time, I am sad for you. You are missing out. [...]

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Pocket Frogs

12/30/11–I am no longer trading frogs via this website. I still trade via the forum at TouchArcade.

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Nothing Happens

It seems that what I like in a Fantasy novel differs from what most other people seem to like. Still chasing that George R.R. Martin dragon, I’ve ventured into four or five other fantasy series. Most of them begin with some sort of dramatic prologue, designed to hook the reader by dropping them into an [...]

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When Hope Was High And Life Worth Living

I am in deep trouble. Trouble that is deeper than the rocky floor of the Marianas Trench. I just woke up from a brief nap–can we call it a Katnap? No. We cannot–and the dream in the midst of that nap was perhaps the most perfect skeleton of the most wonderful story I’ve ever had [...]

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Tiny Stonehenge

There could be a better name for this post, but I didn’t have one. So much for ‘creative writing’. Let me just say that last night was awesome. Why? Well, because I went to my friend’ book release party. It’s pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime experience to sit on a stone porch in the James Gang’s [...]

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Mozart’s Sister Brings Baked Beans To The Potluck

I have this new toy burning a hole in my fingers and I want to use it. But I’m fresh out of good books, having decided that Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time just isn’t for me. (If you want people to believe in the largeness of your magical world, you have to write better than [...]

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What’s New, PussyKat?

It’s been an interesting five days. BEGIN: Self-pity rant; if you’d like to skip to the really interesting stuff, please feel free. If by “interesting” you mean “I wouldn’t mind if my life ended right here, right now.” You know, you have to be careful with how you say such things. Because the last thing [...]

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Dear Other Blogger

I know that you’ve had works published “for reals”. But every time I go to your blog I find myself wondering “by whom??” and “why?” and “is it all as bad as this??” Every time I read something you’ve written in your blog I find myself overcome by the urge to skim…right around sentence number [...]

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Between

I’m learning that fall and spring are hard times for the arthritis stuff. All the ups and downs in the barometric pressure wreak havoc on my system. When you get right down to it, this is a really odd way to live a life. I’ve been having good progress with my fiction writing, though. As [...]

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