The Ups and Downs of The Magnificent Profession of Author

Prospero Regained has received some really nice reviews…and some really nice in person reactions from people eager to read it–including people who had been totally uninterested in the fact that I wrote books…until they started reading them. But yesterday, I found out that Barnes & Nobles is not carrying it in their stores. They have…

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Magical Words Kindly Interviews Me

The kind folks at the wonderful website Magical Words, a site for writers maintained by authors David B. Coe, Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, Stuart Jaffe, and Edmund Schubert, have posted an interview with me on the subject of the Prospero’s Daughter series and following in the footsteps of Shakespeare. http://www.magicalwords.net/specialgueststars/on-writing-interview-with-l.-jagi-lamplighter/#respond Thanks, guys!

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At Long Last…Prospero Regained!

The last of the Prospero novels, Prospero Regained, comes out today. It has taken 19 years, and a tremendous amount of persistance and patience for this to happen, but now it has…the whole trilogy is available for everyone to read. More importantly, though, today is the thirteenth birthday of eldest son, Orville Evander Wright. I…

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Eeks! Egreek! Zed!

My daughter came home from school today and told me that her advance calculator from Middle School was not good enough, she needed a new one. She gave me the name of the calculator. I Googgled it. @#!$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I was in high school, calculators were NOT ALLOWED. This one cost: $125.00 How in the…

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Stork

I went by Borders the other day when everything was 50 to 60% off. I got some presents for Son Number One and a few books for myself that were about $3.20 each. But one book not only caught my eye, it kept drawing me back. I just had this feeling I should buy it,…

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Day Week 2011

Once again, it is Day Week…the week before school starts when each kid gets their own day. For those unfamiliar with the tradition of Day Week, it started when Orville had to go off to school, so he got a day just with Mommy. (Back then, Mommy was the center of the universe. Now, it’s…

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The Search For The Clothes of Doom!

A month or so ago, I was wandering through the maze of mess known only as "downstairs" when I came upon a silvery doll about ten inches long. Picking it up, I quickly discovered two things: one– it had what was supposed to be a metallic mask fused to its face. Two–it was naked. I looked at…

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May I Speak?

Sometime about a year ago, my son who usually blurts stuff out in class got in the habit of saying “May I speak?” before he spoke. This is a rather nice behavior for school, I guess, but he also does it at home, at church, and at Scouts–which is a bit odd. Just now, he…

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