Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. First, if you are looking for our China Updates, scroll down two posts. There are a bunch of them among the writing posts below. Second, there were two writing posts…
A post to help out a friend… Neal Levin of Dark Quest Books, author Danielle Ackley-McPhail, and illustrator Linda Saboe are happy to announce that the Amazon listing for The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale has gone LIVE! The book will make its first public appearance at Faericon in two weeks, www.faericon.com. In…
Well…we did it! We’ve been to the US Consulate and gotten sworn in! Tomorrow we will get our visa for our daughter and the packet that will make her a US Citizen upon our arrival in the States. The US Consulate is right next to the White Swan hotel…only some offices have moved half an…
I picked Christian World Adoption for two reasons. One, I liked that they prayed to get the right children and families together. The other reason was that they have a comprehensive China program with a guide and everything taken care of for us here. And they’ve been doing a great job! Our guide, Simon, is…
My new daughter just ran off to meet her friend in my shoes. She wanted money to pay the taxi that Ee-Ee (sp?) was coming in, but she did not want me to come with her…I have no idea why, but she was laughing. My shoes are way too big for her, so she can’t…
Guest blogger David Coe is the author of numerous exciting fantasy novels. He also writes a weekly column for the writing blog, Magical Words. This is an article he wrote previously that he is kindly sharing with us. ——————————————————————————– As an author, I like to think that my latest book is my best book. I…
Our new daughter LOVES television. For the most part, this is not interesting to me–except for the amusement of her being like Orville–because I don’t speak the language here…but I’ve fallen in love with one of the shows, even without being able to understand it. The show is like a live action anime. The costumes…
We are staying at the White Swan which is the kind of luxury resort hotel people stay at in the movie verisions of Danielle Steele novels. Goungzhou is a tropical city with palm trees and these wide trees with vines and something–moss?–hanging down from them. Absolutely beautiful! The hotel is on an island between the…
We made it to China! Thursday, in one of the busiest days of my life, we saw Tienamen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall (those stairs were steep!!!), a jade factory, a silk factory, and a tea house…along with two fantastic Chinese meals. (The food is sooo good!) We were shown around by an…
Guest blogger Misty Massey is the author of the very cool Mad Kestrel (girl pirates and magic, oh my!) Her website is: www.mistymassey.com She writes a weekly column on writing that can be found at the writer’s blog Magical Words. She shares with us now a column she particularly enjoyed writing. —————————————————————- The Gregorovich-Feister Idea Farm and…