I joined a writing group with seven other fantasy/sf writers, one of whom was a friend. Imagine my surprise when some of these ladies read Chapter One of my latest work and don’t seem to understand what is magic and what is not, think a magician asking for a sample of a solicitor’s wares is propositioning…

  When I was young, there was nothing I loved more than to disappear into the world of books.  I would bike down to this magical place called the library and come back with a backpack of books. Then I would curl up in my room and disappear into Wonderland.   I loved all books,…

due to things at home.   God willing, we’ll be back next week. 

Persie is the shaggy dark tiger on the left. I don’t recall the first time I saw him very clearly. He must have been a black-backed ball of fur. But I remember the second time. We had gone to our friends, the Carvers, to pick two kittens — this was because we had finally hit step two…

May have a guest blog today…we’ll see if it comes. Until then, the above quote about Pirates and Dragons comes from 7 year old Juss.   So…what do you think makes a movie good?

I wrote a guest blog for a friend. It’s on Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. You can read it here. Here’s the begining: My favorite book on how to write is Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass. Before encountering it, I was a non-believer. Writing books did nothing for me. Most seemed…

I have discovered something. I really like books with hope in them. Books with a glimpse of hope shining through the grimy darkness. I will read a whole book because of just a little promise of hope. Really makes me sad when that promise is betrayed.   Tuesday Night, I was in Barnes and Nobles…