Beware, fair reader! Be not slain by the baneful sneer of Reader X, The Condemner of Covers! So who is Reader X? And why does he condemn books with less-than-professional-looking covers? If you would keep yourself—and your book—from so dire a fate, read on! I have a great many friends who are published by small…
In honor of Easter…
Winner: Inverness Fashion Week. Runner-Up: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
New anthology by John C. Wright on sale today!
Mab here, Prospero Inc. company gumshoe. As part of my campaign to protect you woefully-uninformed humans from your own folly—in hopes of saving even one of you from an elf-induced death, or worse—here is some of my gathered wisdom concerning the supernatural world. Read. Pay attention. And maybe you’ll live. For those of you who…
I have been wanting to write about this for quite some time. Today seems like the day. It has come to my attention that there are two kinds of readers when it comes to reading about emotions. (There may be more, but I’ve only discovered two of them.) The first one, I shall call the…
"Thinking outside the box is not a problem in this family. FINDING the box is the problem."
"Time travelers' parents never say: Be back by six. They just say: When you're done, get home at six." "Time travelers' parents never say: Where have you been! … They say: When have you been?" "Time travelers' parents never say: Get back this instant! They say: Get back to this instant!"
It has been brought to my attention that somehow the Winner for the Llama post did not get posted. So, posting again! Best caption: Tibet or bust!
I was invited to do a guest post for Mythical Monday, here is an excerpt and a link: Of Gnomes and Oreads: the Magic of the Mountain Mountains. They rise like majestic kings, white-crowned with robes of royal purple and deep blue. The air atop them is different from ordinary air. To be atop…
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We received several versions of this same idea, so it is definitely the winner: Iron Man, Iron Throne But special runner up status to: The new CEO decided to go with a more old-fashioned style of furniture.
Last week, we discussed the Payload Moment—the moment that lifts or deepens a given scene or character. This week, I promised to discuss how to do this. But first…a confession. In Gone With The Wind, the little slave girl Prissey declares boldly that she has helped women give birth many times. But when the moment…
Reposting this for a gentleman named Harold Carper: Harold Carper is a USAF veteran, husband, father, and systems administrator. He is not a people person. The son of ministers, he was brought up in the Assemblies of God. Once on his own, however, he asked too many questions to which there were no satisfactory answers…
