Janus — Happy New Year
Those who know Roman mythology will remember that January is named for the god Janus, patron of beginnings and endings. Here’s a story I wrote some time ago about the shenanigans he might get up to today.
Janus
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Excelsior! Part 2
(Part 1 was my last post of last year.) So … It’s been a wild year, writing-wise and otherwise. Writing was tough, and touch-and-go at times. I ran into some stress late in the year when things went wrong, and for the first time in five years, I did...
GoodReads Review: Between The Lines – Master The Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing by Jessica Page Morrell
Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing by Jessica Page MorrellMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis book has a lot of insight to offer for editing fiction and filling in the blanks that we sometimes take for granted. It's great in parti......
Merry Everything!
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Fantasy #Writers Dot Org 4th Annual Weird Christmas Entries
Craig over at Weird Christmas hosts a flash fiction contest for the Christmas holiday. A group of us at Fantasy-Writers.org enter en masse to try...
The state of the Feyrlands – Part 3: Clothes
In this series, I take you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. Today, we’re taking a look at what people w......
The Hidden Lessons of Moving Product
So … I spent some time this year (local pandemic restrictions permitting) at a handful of live events (craft fairs, holiday markets, etc), where I had a chance to do a little book selling. I’d not done it very much before; I mean, getting out and trying to sell...
Reading Native American Literature
I’ve been teaching my American Literature class for a number of years, tinkering with it, switching out texts, and trying to find the right balance of stories. Originally, the only Native American stories in the curriculum were some myth retellings from the first chapter of an old literature textbook....
The state of the Feyrlands – Part 2: Weapons
In this series, I take you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. This time, we’re looking at one of my favou......
"A Chance to Breathe" published in Zooscape!
My story "A Chance to Breathe" is in the latest issue of Zooscape. This is a story I wrote years ago and could never find the right market for--until now. There are three main inspirations for the story: 1) My grandma's family immigrated to ......