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Blog postI am nearly done with the first draft of “The Silk Empress”, my first foray into steampunk misadventure. She says its my best book so far, though “Camp Arcanum” is still her favorite. That is no surprise since the whole trilogy is something of a love letter to her dressed up in a horror/comedy with undead skinless bunnies.
I generally suck at theme. Lois McMaster Bujold read the first few chapters and told me she thought the theme was about guilt and its corrosive power. I hadn’t seen -
Blog postToday is the Celtic festival of Imbolc, known to some as Candlemas, or St. Brigid’s Day. Large North American rodents also figure in celebrations of the day. It is a day for renewal in darkness and prophecy. Being the first to draw water from a well or start the fire on the hearth was reputed to give a young girl a vision of the man she was to marry.
As my gift to you, here is an excerpt from “The Ren Faire at the End of the World” which shows an Imbolc meeting in a graveyard.
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Blog postI unfollowed & unfriended another writer early this morning. From all her proclamations, she is a white, cis-het, conservative thinker pretty much identical to people that raised me and did my brain the most damage. She had a habit of starting a thread on Facebook with a question that sounded like a push poll from a McCain opposition survey. (You know the one: “Would you think any differently of John McCain if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?”)
I too often lea -
Blog postHere’s a little bit of the pagan vegan Thanksgiving seen in “Power Tools in the Sacred Grove” After the kind of year we’ve all had, Warriors of Every Stripe, we should all be thankful for all we’ve got, and those parts that haven’t been removed yet.
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Brenwyn glided in with the last two trays of vegetables and set them in front of Eleazar. As she returned to the kitchen, he squeezed a black olive from the tray onto his pinkie. He waved that at Michael like a finger puppet and -
Blog postLast week, my indie author buddy Sheldon Gleisser and I finally got around to “Jennifer’s Body”. There is a scene (spoilers) where Adam Brody, who seems to be making a career of deal-with-the-devil guys, explains to Megan Fox why they’re about sacrifice her to Satan.
“Do you know how hard it is to be a indie band nowadays?” he says. “There’s a million of us and we’re all so cute.”
Then he gets all stabby.
As I watched this scene, I pencilled out the word “band” and plu -
Blog postToday is Halloween, or to the Celts Samhain, the winding down of the year. The veil between the worlds of the spirit and the material is thinnest now. The spirits of the dead can come calling, if they’re invited in.
What if the deceased was a rat’s ass bastard? Do their experiences of life shape their soul forever? Or is this Play of Masks in the physical world just a way for small bits of the Eternal to learn the lessons of Time and Space and Need?
I believe that when we shed -
Blog postI most likely won’t be giving out candy this Halloween; even without the looming threat of Pandemic few children come to our apartment block unless we have a massive display on the lawn.
The least I can portion out from the blue pumpkin for all my followers is this little bit of flash fiction apropos of the season. It’s short & it’s sweet, & you won’t have to burn off the calories afterwards. A bonus for me, the character is named for my troublesome baby brother. There are som -
Blog postYou all need something to cheer you up while giving you the tiniest chill of terror. Something besides the news, that is.
I need new readers. An author without readers is like a dog without a bone, an actor out alone… Anyway, you get my point without further copyright infringement.
Starting October 15th, all three of my Arcanum Faire ebooks (Camp Arcanum, Power Tools in the Sacred Grove, & The Ren Faire at the End of the World) will be on sale for 99 cents each. In proper -
Blog postI caught some grief from my baby brother a decade ago about my hat.
“What’s with the cowboy hat?” he asked. He went on to imply that men from Columbus Ohio looked like idiots in cowboy hats, in the rudest terms.
I could have given him my standard explanation: that the hat was actually a gambler style, a slouch hat, an author’s hat, but he was hardly worth the effort. I simply replied:
“We were boys. We had cows…”
Matthew is my youngest brother, the only one of -
Blog postComing up this week, I will be participating in my first virtual convention, Imaginarium 2020, September 21-27. The link is here: https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/
This has been a good convention for me, where I’ve been able to connect up with fans and other writers. The panels have consistently been engaging and I’ve had the opportunity to do some really fun readings. Sales and reviews usually got a bump afterwards, always a big plus for an indie author.
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