During my college years (back in the 90’s), I was big into zines. You know, those hand-made, hand distributed, mostly photocopied magazines that focused around a singular topic. I had two of my own. Mirror Imyaj, a personal zine that…
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Presenting Wine Inspired Writing Workshop
A few weeks ago, my good friend Anna and I decided to “do something together.” We weren’t sure what we wanted to do, so we brainstormed ideas. We listed things that we wanted to do (writing, design, divination arts, creative…
Midnight Musings
Songs and movies affect me in weird ways. We just finished watching Jackson’s version of The Lovely Bones. It was hauntingly beautiful and weirdly done. Towards the end of it, an all too familiar song (Song to the Siren by…
Gotham Writers’ Workshop Contest Winners Announced
Last November I entered TOUCHED into the Gotham Writers’ Workshop YA Novel Discovery contest. They announced the winners today. I was not one of them. However, they had about 1,700 submitted entries which is pretty impressive. I’m not bummed, I…
2010 Intensions
With 2009 all wrapped up, I wanted to announce my intensions for 2010. On new years’ eve, me and a few friends got together to do a small ritual honoring the good/bad that last year wrought and to write intensions…
2009 Wrap-up
2009 has come and gone and I wanted to do a nice wrap up post on all that I accomplished. While I didn’t post goals I had for the year publicly, I did have a few of them. Click on…
Ravens in the Library Going Out of Print
Haven’t snagged your copy of Ravens in the Library yet? It may already be too late! Ravens in the Library will be going OUT OF PRINT this month. The current print run is the last. Thank you all so VERY…
Good Advice from R.A. Salvatore
Kender’s read more Salvatore than I have; he was recently interviewed by the Willamette Week. I read the interview and really liked what he had to say about writer’s block and writing (click “read more” to see the passage I…
If it Works… Do It; or How I uncovered my 2009 nano idea
“If it works, go for it,” became this year’s motto for uncovering my central idea for NaNoWriMo 2009. I fretted over the past five days about how “late” I was in getting an idea for my story. Kender and I…
Into Seattle once more…another RAVENS signing
Looks like I’ll be back in the Emerald City (Seattle) this Friday. The RAVENS IN THE LIBRARY crew flock at Norwescon. We join s00j and Catherynne M. Valente for a concert/signing/gathering. The fun starts at 3pm and goes until whenever.…