Playing Games With Parents

Juss loves board games. No one else in the family does. But recently, he's been learning the secret that if you pick games your parents like, they might play. He already has an offer from Daddy that Daddy will play chess any time Juss asks, unless he's writing. But now he discovered Mommy's weakness, too…Master…

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A Casual Vacancy of Morals, Wit, and Charm

The first thing I heard about J. K. Rowling’s CASUAL VACANCY was that it would be a humorous book about a small town election. That sounded like it could be fun, but I wasn’t particularly interested. Then, I heard that it had one or two darker elements.   I decided I would wait to read…

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A Head’s Up

Tea with Jagi Lamplighter and John C. Wright at Constellation Books in Maryland Start: 12/08/2012 3:00 pm   End: 12/08/2012 5:00 pm     DC area fantasy authors Lamplighter and Wright chat with us about their work. Coffee/Tea/Cocoa and munchies available…     http://www.constellationbooks.com/event/tea-jagi-lamplighter-and-john-c-wright        

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Overheard at the Wright Household

Mom: "Orville, can you carry out the boxes in the hallway and put them with the recycling stuff outside for the trash?" Orville: "Okay….I can't get the door open." Mom: "Just a second." Orville: "One Chimpansee." (the lenght of a second. My great uncle counted them in chimpansees. So do we. That's four generations of…

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NaNo Wri Mo

So…who is doing NaNo Wri Mo and what is your WIP?   I am not doing it, but I am making an extra push on my current project: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin: Book Two–The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel.

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Excerpt from The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel

The three children: Rachel Griffin, her friend Sigfried Smith, and his girlfriend, Fearless Girl Report Valerie Fox, have just watched a group of adults repair a broken stone building with magic.   Wow!” Valerie snapped a last picture. “Why don’t they do repairs this way after storms and earthquakes? That would speed up disaster recovery more…

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