the archives

Category: writing

  • SFFSat October 27th: A Diplomatic Mission

    Welcome to another SFFSat snippet! We continue on from the last two weeks’ snippets (here and here, in chronological order) from The Jade Star of Athering. The leader sized her up, recognized her as another leader, and made a small bow indicating wary respect. Agate affected a look of confusion and did a clumsy imitation…

  • Writers Fest Recap (picture heavy)

    Last week I volunteered sixteen hours at the Writers Fest. If you’ve been reading my posts, you already know this. I wanted to give a brief recap of the week, along with pictures I took (or had taken of me). My volunteering hours were spent selling raffle tickets. The raffle was to win a painting…

  • SFFSat, October 20th: The Welcoming Party

    Continuing on from where we left off last week — Bellica Agate and her regiment have arrived in Southland, where an army of “gypsies” has taken over the town. And yes, this is all first draft stuff, so there will probably be some grammatical errors. It didn’t take long for someone to come out and…

  • SFFSat October 13th: Our heroines arrive in Southland

    Welcome to Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday. On the surface, it’s a web ring of authors who post snippets of their work for comment. In reality, it’s a close-knit group of friends and colleagues working together to support and encourage one another and promote the science fiction and fantasy genres. – JC Cassels, 2012 I’m back,…

  • Oh Dear Gods, Why Am I Still Up?

    Site news, new sites, a makeover to my mom’s blog, coffee, insomnia, workaholism, NaNoWriMo, Literary+, Smoke and Shadows, bugs, boobs…you know. The usual.

  • Practicing gratefulness, because life is AWESOME

    This year, I’m not celebrating Thanksgiving the way I usually do — and that’s okay, because I have so much for which to be thankful. What are you thankful for?

  • Blog Tour: Gabriel Fitzpatrick’s “These Days” Post

    Today I’m hosting Gabriel Fitzpatrick, one of the Literary+ writers, on a blog tour for his new book Rmnce! These Days ‘These days’ was the first expression which ever came to turn my stomach. Never before the moment when I first came into the full realization of its implications can I recall feeling disgusted by…

  • Buying Reviews

    Just don’t friggin’ do it.

  • I am dissatisfied (Author brands and Battlestar Galactica)

    This post contains spoilers for Battlestar Galactica (2004). You’ve been warned. When I chose the current theme for this blog I was in the process of revamping my online presence to better reflect my “author brand.” Apparently an author brand is an important thing to have, and I wanted to have one. So I chose…

  • Apologies for being AWOL

    It has been a weird month or so. Very busy, like a bee, if bees are busy. Haven’t had a chance to do any SFFSat, as much because my laptop, where my WIPs reside, has been acting up, as because I’ve been busy. I’m in the process of backing it up and taking it in…