It is an undeniable fact, dear reader, that if one lives in the frozen North, one makes one’s peace with long winters or one runs mad. Fair warning: I’m about to go stark, raving bonkers. It happens every year just … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2015
I was saddened to learn that Carol Severance has recently passed away. For those who don’t know her, Carol was a science fiction writer from Hawaii. There aren’t many of us here in the islands, and she was an important … Continue reading
I worked in the early 70s as the children’s book buyer for an Austin bookstore called Grok Books. It was the predecessor to Bookpeople, the city’s highly successful indie bookstore, but I’m mentioning it here because of the name, which … Continue reading
It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What did you recently finish reading? Good luck finding copies of Antonia Forest’s work–old paperbacks go for hundreds of dollars. But through a Goodreads connection I lucked into a copy of … Continue reading
My annual stint in an online writers’ conference (the Catholic Writer’s Conference, of which I’ve been a non-Catholoic guest for the past several years) has me doing a chat workshop on writing dialogue and action. And, as often happens, this … Continue reading
Until last August, I was a production editor at a publisher who does craft and activity books for kids; sometimes, alas, there was not sufficient production-editorial work to do on a given day. So I did other things: create an … Continue reading
Seas of Ernathe A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe by Jeffrey A. Carver Starship rigging is a long-lost art. But the ocean world Ernathe may hold the key to its rediscovery, if a young star pilot can learn the … Continue reading
Making the Rules by Doranna Durgin Kimmer Reed is a Hunter Agency operative, a street foundling escaped from an abusive family and raised to be code-name Chimera-a fierce, savvy loner with a natural gift for reading people. Now on her … Continue reading
Moon Dreams An American Dreams Novel by Patricia Rice Rory Maclean cursed and scratched surreptitiously at a suspicious itch beneath his arm. Beneath the coarse wool of his decrepit coat, his stained leather jerkin and threadbare homespun shirt stank from … Continue reading
Anyone who’s publishing or considering publishing books today is facing a confusing chaos of choices—traditional print publishing through the “Big 5” publishers or independent presses, agented or non, indie self-publishing, standard print runs, print on demand, ebooks…. It can make … Continue reading