I only got this close to Stephen Amell’s Arrow . . . this image from one of the thousands of t-shirts being sold: The Emerald City Comic Con came and went with such laughter and frenetic memory whisperings. So many highlights . . . Like meeting comic book artist and legend Bob Layton in person.…
IndieVengeance Day is October 12th in Dallas, Texas at Half Price Books! I can’t wait to be a part of this experience and thank Amber Jerome-Norrgard and Scott Morgan especially for coordinating everything for the event. What a great weekend ahead. 20 Awesome Things to Do in Dallas for TX/OU Weekend, October 10 to 13 (click…
I always try to pick books for the upcoming summer season, captivating books that will introduce me to characters I would never meet in real life, for good or bad, and allow me to visit places I probably will never have a chance to travel to—here at A Writer’s Life Blog and at the eMagazine In…
One of the most surreal moments of my life happened last year when the Green Darner Press publisher called and wanted to meet with me to talk about working together as a team to produce future work–the end result? Sandcastle and Other Stories. Here is the new logo for Green Darner Press. The Green Darner…
When you see this button you know it’s one of the official 12 Blogs of Christmas–Check them all out! The Holiday Faux Pas A fantastic group of writers and bloggers came together to share different Christmas subjects. Their creative drive blew me away. All of them have blogs, some have even written books, and there…
I try to read a short story, or part of a long short story, every single night. A good habit I started years ago. In the past couple months I picked three books with the word Dark in the titles: Haunted: Dark Delicacies III, Dark Masques, and its companion, Darker Masques, off my shelf I store books…
Zippy and Kipling made 2011 a year to remember. I used to play Freeze Tag with the neighborhood kids and all four of my siblings. Tag someone. Run fast. They have to freeze; remain motionless. The other variation, Statues, evolved from Freeze Tag, where you’d hold onto someone’s wrists and spin around and around and…
The chill of finishing a great mystery is in my bones. And it’s a very good thing Kipling can’t get to them with her tiny puppy-teeth! Kiplings’s first snow experience…traversing the Japanese bridge. She slipped a bit and I loved Zippy’s watchful eye (here he’s laughing at Kipling)! The view from the bridge…
Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation 😉 I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with a different guest Editor. This year, Series Editor, Heidi Pitlor, chose Geraldine Brooks, who was born in Australia, grew up in…
This morning finds me working in two separate directions. My mind is split between two endeavors, and a third hovers behind these, just waiting to take over. So many walks, alone, or with my German Shepherd, Zippy, across the meadow, give me time to think about the characters in my own novel, the paths they…