Thursday’s Tour Stop!
Today, I get a little bratty over at Daniel Ausema's blog, talking about music. Check it out here: http://danielausema.blogspot.com/...
Wednesday Wanderings – Books Within Books
Books – physical books, stories contained within pages and ink – play a small but vital role in Scylla and Charybdis. This is, admittedly, a product of personal bias: as a reader, I am devoted to the book you can hold, the tactile sensation, the subtle scent. I am...
Tuesday’s Tour Talk!
Visiting Joanne Hall today to talk about culinary nonsense! Check it out: https://hierath.wordpress.com/...
Today is the Day! Scylla and Charybdis out (ebook)
Today is the day! My space opera / soft science fiction novel, Scylla and Charybdis, is now available! Check it out HERE!...
Wednesday Wanderings – What’s In A Name?
Some writers use placeholders in their works instead of character names, using Find-Replace when the right name comes to them. I can’t even imagine being able to do that. While I’m not a writer who gets clever with hidden meanings and inside jokes, to me, a name becomes inextricably...
State of the Pembroke
So…. Pilgrimage to Skara, my second completed novel (the first shall never see the light of day), continues to garner, uhm, “stellar” reviews. See here, here, and here, for the latest reviewer feedback. Muse: You did earn all those reviews, you know. It’s your own damn fault. By the...
Touring To …
Well, hey - I'm over at Marco's blog today, talking about worldbuilding! Check it out....
Goodreads Review: Did You Say Chicks?! ed. Esther Friesner
Did You Say Chicks?! by Esther M. FriesnerMy rating: 3 of 5 starsI really wanted to love this anthology: parodies of sexist sword and sorcery stories are right up my alley, and I've always enjoyed Friesner as both an author and an anthologist. Some of ......
Wednesday Wanderings – How It Started
I never intended to write a novel. Scylla and Charybdis was supposed to be a short story. In hindsight, I’d never written a “real” science fiction novel before: I’d dabbled in it, but they were all terrible, straight up fantasy-in-space, or both, written when I was too green a...
Guest Author Interview: Frances Kay
I'm not the only excellent author at Grimbold Books, and today, fellow author Frances Kay visits, interviewed by the titular cats, Grim and Bold. (As a person owned by two fluffy white dogs, I cannot endorse cat supremacy, but cats are sometimes as wonderful as dogs. Sometimes.) Here's Frances'...