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Interviewed by Phyllis Irene Radford October, 2013 Shannon Page is Book View Café’s newest member. Her collection of short fiction, Eastlick and Other Stories, marks her debut with us. 1.) You burst into the writing community only a few years ago with collaboration short stories, I’ve edited a few for you. How does collaboration work …
Thor and I continue our journey toward our dream home as our builder and his crews start on more interior projects. NOTE: People have been asking to follow our progress as Thor and I pursue our quest for our dream home with sunsets over the Salish Sea. So starting with my post of 5/21/22, we set …
The Rambling Writer’s Quest for Home, part 13: Tiles, Flooring, and Stairs, Oh My! Read More »
Join Thor and me as we gather beach pebbles from nearby Pacific Northwest beaches and enjoy the lively sea creatures. …of cabbages and kings — No, wait, wrong story. This one takes Thor, Bear dog, and me to a favorite nearby hike, from Rosario Beach, along Bowman Bay (top photo), and to Deception Pass. (NOTE: We …
A Rambling Writer Rerun: Of Pebbles and Porpoises… Read More »
I was originally going to title this essay “We Have Ways of Making You Talk,” but I decided that was too flippant for the subject matter. Because although we have sometimes played torture for laughs in our stories, it’s honestly a horrifying and grotesque affair. (The obvious content warnings apply.) We’ve touched on this somewhat …
Thor and I continue our housing journey with a lot of dithering over paint colors, and interior is now done. Phew! NOTE: People have been asking to follow our progress as Thor and I pursue our quest for our dream home with sunsets over the Salish Sea. So starting with my post of 5/21/22, we set …
The Rambling Writer’s Quest for Home, part 12: Painting Colors! Read More »
It’s been a mild winter. (Picture from here.) The weather has been mild and nearly snowless. The temperature has been either warm or hovering around 29-35F. We had brief spatterings of cold weather—down to -4F or so—but nothing that stuck. The ground isn’t even frozen at this point. I did a little snow-blowing yesterday …
Thor’s and my dream home looks like a real house now! NOTE: People have been asking to follow our progress as Thor and I pursue our quest for our dream home with sunsets over the Salish Sea. So starting with my post of 5/21/22, we set out. A lot has happened since my last progress report …
The Rambling Writer’s Quest for Home, part 11: Walls & Windows Read More »
My featured week with the Pulpwood Queens ends with some advice about promoting your novels. NOTE: This series started on Dec. 31. I’m honored to have my seriocomic novel of midlife reinvention PAUSE, published by Book View Cafe, selected by The International Pulpwood Queens Book Club as a December 2022 title. http://www.thepulpwoodqueens.com During my featured week …
Follow my journey from Big 5 traditionally-published author to joining an author-owned cooperative publishing group, with travails and triumphs along the way. NOTE: This series started on Dec. 31. I’m honored to have my seriocomic novel of midlife reinvention PAUSE, published by Book View Cafe, selected by The International Pulpwood Queens Book Club as a December …
Originally published 12/17/2009 My cozy mystery, Lacing up for Murder, was a challenge to craft. My heroine couldn’t whip out a bit of magic from her arsenal to get out of trouble. She had to rely on her own resources and mundane weapons. I had to reveal clues slowly and physically, no mind-reading. But in many …
My Paleontologist/Geologist spousal unit Thor Talks more rocks! In an earlier blog, I commented on our (or my) current obsession with polishing rocks and the stories they tell. Here’s the latest batch of beach pebbles that Sara and I gathered, nicely tumbled:
I continue my conversation with the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, this time about the roots of my novel THE ARIADNE CONNECTION. NOTE: This series started on Dec. 31. I’m honored to have my seriocomic novel of midlife reinvention PAUSE, published by Book View Cafe, selected by The International Pulpwood Queens Book Club as a December 2022 …
(Picture from here.) These are the kinds of posts that get me in trouble. I am quite pro-environmental. We have as much solar as we can possibly afford at the moment. Our power supply is aggressively electric. The only place where we use fossil fuels is in heating—which, in the northeast, is a difficult thing …
