Crazy Talk and Sometimes Socks
Long ago, way back in the Before Times, in the day when I had yet to finish writing even a single novel (that is, 2011), I used to throw together short pieces of fiction and post them here. It was practice mainly, just something to have a little fun with. So I’d write whatever came … Continue reading Friday Fiction: Revisiting Holly’s Day
It’s Monday, and our weekend was filled to bursting with Doing All The Things That Families with Kids Do (plus hockey). In other words, at the moment I’m tired, sore, tired, headache-ridden, and (did I mention?) tired. What I’m saying is that bedtime tonight is going to be about as welcome as a barrel of … Continue reading Help me pick a book, Internet
I’ve been struggling with fantasy novels lately. For reasons that I largely suspect lie smack dab at the crossroads of It’s Not You and It’s Me, I just can’t get full invested. I read a chapter or two and then I kinda go, “meh" and start looking for kitten memes on the internet*. I’m apparently … Continue reading Look, I read a book: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
For the benefit of those of you who don’t know about San Diego Comic-Con, well, in a nutshell, it’s this convention thing every year in San Diego. All the geek people descend upon the San Diego Convention Center to find out more about the thing(s) they love with the whole of their geeky soul while … Continue reading Culturally Bereft
I probably should be inside at the computer concocting some long-winded, spittle-flinging, cockle-searing rant about how the kids these days don't appreciate all the NSA snooping my tax dollars are paying for. Our how I seem to be somehow missing all the important summer movies this year as my calendar has, with good reason, thus … Continue reading Filling my Monday with a little Wild Rumpus
I’m not messing around when I said “a quick warning,” because I’ve reached that point again. I’ve got the last few chapters of OTHER THING in my sights, meaning I expect to finish it this week. Huzzah for finishing drafts of books, right? Right. Except. I’ve given myself a pretty firm deadline to type the … Continue reading A quick warning and a tale of two books
I know, we haven’t talked in a while. It’s, like, I haven’t been around for the past few days or something. Well, actually, it’s not like that at all. It’s exactly that. I haven’t been. Around, that is. I’ve been in Connecticut. Yes, that state in New England. Because I had to do [redacted]. Truth … Continue reading Gone Puddin’
Recently, (more specifically, after this post), I came to the realization that I don’t talk about books enough in general. Writing, sure. I ramble on about my own writing like one those poor, um, overserved* individuals you occasionally see wandering the convenience store barefoot and in search of cheese doodles. But I don’t mean writing, … Continue reading An additional word or two about "Look, I read a book"
Truth be told, I should have read Dragonflight a long, long time ago. Originally published in 1968, this book has been around since, well, as long as I’ve been alive. Longer, even. It’s one of those books, the ones that anyone purporting to have any semblance of “geek cred” is assumed to have read—and cherished … Continue reading Look, I read a book: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
I know I’ve been kind of worthless when it comes to making any kind of sense or producing even a mildly entertaining narrative here this week. Really, though, I swear, that’s over now and I’m going to be good and clean and room and eat all my vegetables and any and all the other kid-who-wants-a-puppy-style … Continue reading Not being left without a partner at the big dance, and more on Longshots
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