Lovely Guest Blog today by returning favorite, author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Danielle is the author of numerous works and the editor of, among other things, the Bad Ass Faeries Anthologies. (For more on Danielle’s work, see links at the bottom.) The Naming of Names (originally published in Allegory Magazine, www.allegoryezine.com) By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Have you…
Ping-Ping’s sweet Chinese girlfriend got thrown out of her house, for reasons I won’t go into here. (She is 18 but still in school to try to learn enough English in order to graduate.) So, now she is living with us. Ping-Ping could not be happier.
As it says above. The review is here: http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2011/10/06/prospero-regained-by-l-jagi-lamplighter-review/#more-640
About two years ago, I first posted my writing tips. A reader suggested I write an essay about each one, which I did. Since it has been a while, I have decided to post them again. Each tip is linked to the subsequent article I wrote on that tip…except for one at the bottom that…
And, today, also Author Joshua Palmatier/Benjamin Tate interviews me on his JPSorrows blog: http://jpsorrow.livejournal.com/322961.html It is a happy, Prospero-y day!
My friend Rose McCauley, who so kindly guest blogged for us last week, has posted my All About the Wonder: Why I Write Fantasy essay on her blog. It is by far the best essay I’ve ever written, so if you haven’t read it, you might want to check it out: http://www.rosemccauley.blogspot.com/
Today, my daughter went to school wearing my pink Amber For a real vacation t-shirt. I was sooo pleased. The shirt is one of many that I loved when I was younger but no longer fit in. I decided to give them to the children and was a bit taken aback to discover that my…
Having recently finished a novel, I have spent some time talking to people about ending things…novels, short stories, poems, etc. So, what makes a good ending? And why is it that “An uncomfortable silence ensued” is so exactly the opposite of almost everything we would want in one? For those who did not see…
Agent Michael Kabongo kindly interviewed my and posted the results on his blog. You can read it here. I remember first meeting Michael at a convention in Roaknoke, so long ago that The Elf King was just a tiny little guy. Now he’ is a wild 8 year old! It was the last convention we…
So, recently, as evening comes, The Cherubim has taken to coming up to me and saying in his breathy, backwards voice: “No beautiful day! No. No beautiful day!” Occasionally, this is followed by a comment about the moon. So far as I can tell this is either an acknowledgement of the coming of night or…