The Bad Ass Faery Blog is up and running. My fellow editors have all posted posts. (Mine will appear later this week.) Jeff Lyman has this to say: Howdy, Jeff Lyman here. Engineer by day, writer during lunchtime. I’ve been writing ever since I can remember (how many times have you heard that?). Mostly fantasy,…
A new Bollywood robot movie includes cool robot action and the beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (if you are reading this on LJ, look to the left to see a picture of her.) The trailer is worth watching just to see the end clip of a guy shooting about 50 guns at once. (Other clips show…
We went to Homecoming at St. Johns today. It was my 25th Anniversary. I saw some old friends and favorite teachers, which was delightful. John and I got to sit in the bookstore and sign books. As an added bonus, we got to sit next to Mr. Beall, who was always one of…
So…Mom stays up until 2:30 in the morning trying to finish a short story. She stumbles off to bed in hopes of sleeping until 10. At some point that feels like 5am but is probably more like 9, there is a knocking at the bedroom door. Mom: “This has better be a life or death…
The boys were planning yet another Harry Potter roleplaying game (I think there are six running now. They liked making up characters more than they like playing them.) In this one, everyone will be playing a Weasley. The subject arrose of what Juss was going to call his character. Daddy: “You always name your characters…
For some time now, I have been thinking of a post on writing about good and evil. Can good be interesting? What are the pitfalls people run into when designing villains. This sort of thing. Most likely, it will be in three parts—Writing About Good Settings, Writing About Good Characters, and Writing About Evil. Here…
Many, many years ago, I spent my sixth grade in a large brick school house that is no longer in use. It had a wonderful library that was shadowe and wooden and everything a magical library should be. It had shelves on the walls and shelves on a the walls of a hall…
Back To School Week has finally ended. Now, I realize the rest of you only face Back-To-School Night, or maybe two. This year, I had to attend four at four different schools. Luckily, for the first time, none of them were on the same night. But this meant four nights almost in a row of…
Went to Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, VA this weekend. John and I appeared on a panel with fellow writers Brenda Clough and Sue Lange (check out their stuff here: Book View Cafe.) The panel was great fun. Afterwards Brenda and her husband Larry fed us lamb. I love lamb. I’ve almost never…
Reposting this as a test. My apologies: Muggles in unexpected places So…we’re playing a Harry Potter game in which our fellow students are characters from other books and stories. One of the players is playing the Princess of Magical Australia. She had a special magic power that makes it so that if she shakes someone’s…