This past week or so I’ve sold two more poems, and I’m ecstatic about it! First, I “The Forbidden Path to Forgetting” to Fantasy Magazine. Fantasy! Magazine! I’ve been sending them since (I just checked) December 2005, and I love the feel of the …
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake SnyderMy rating: 2 of 5 starsSo … I feel as if I should preface this by stating I’m not really the audience for this book. I am a novelist, not a screenwriter, but I’ve hear…
The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster BujoldMy rating: 4 of 5 starsSet in a small Italian town in the Renaissance era (there are references to Lorenzo de Medici, so let’s call it late 1400s), but a version where magic and metallurgy run together, The Spirit…
Heartbreak … it’s inevitable in this life. Muse: Unless you’re a pyschopath. Are you implying something? Muse (whistling innocently): No, not all. When I think about heartbreak, I think about disappointment, but magnified. Most folks have experienced it at some point, whether it’s the job you didn’t get, the prize you didn’t win, or that … Continue reading When Your Children Turn On You
Words only hold meaning in context. Speak any word in a place where no one else understands that language and it holds no meaning. That is true for the denotation (a word’s literal or most common meaning) as well as for connotation (whatever else it signifies along with its denotation). English is such a rich […]
My poem “The Pelagic Colossus” has just sold to Star*Line. That’s a nice bit of news to get during National Poetry Month. Look for it in one of the next two issues.