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Four historically-set short stories about women who escape their preordained roles.
Continue readingMonthly Archives: June 2020
If the Australian and the US were TV series, the US would be the one with big funding and stars and special effects and Australia would be the cheap spin-off that people like because it’s less taxing and is comfortingly … Continue reading
There are the really obvious ways to torch your career — rudeness to editors, for instance. And then there are the hidden trap doors. The one I am going to reveal today is truly obscure. It could be broadly described … Continue reading
Join Thor , Bear dog, and me as we heed the call of the wild to the Mt. Baker Wilderness. NOTE: For more virtual getaways you may enjoy this summer, I’ll be weaving in some outdoor excursions between our virtual-vacation series … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) In Aztec cosmology, warriors who died in battle or sacrifice were rewarded with Huitzilopochtli’s heaven, accompanying the sun in its journey from rising to noon. The western half of the … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford The middle of the great Charter deals with laws and economics in practical ways. For the first time these minutiae of legal disputes are written down and agreed to by the king and his barons. They … Continue reading
A client for my ghostwriting and editing services—I shall call him Rocky—once asked me what essential things a writer must do to lay the foundations for a writing career. He wasn’t asking about the writing itself, he explained, but about … Continue reading
I am an avid collector–and reader–of nineteenth century media. Give me an 1816 La Belle Assemblée or an 1810 Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts and Sciences, and I’ll be happy for hours: though the serialized fiction featured in them can be … Continue reading
THISTLE DOWN Pixie Chronicles 1 by Irene Radford Pixies don’t play tricks on other Pixies. That’s what humans are for. Thistle Down has been stripped of her lavender skin, purple hair, her lovely wings, her Pixie magic, and grown to … Continue reading