It’s the most wonderful time of the year… No, silly, not the winter holiday season. I’m talking about Dragon*Con, where you too can be surrounded by forty thousand of the closest friends and acquaintances you never met before–like these...
You just can’t make this stuff up. Last week, Diane Whiteside received a letter from a fan of her novel, The Shadow Guard. The fan was seeking the grave of Col. John Fitzgerald, aide-de-camp to George Washington at Valley Forge and prominent Alexandria cit...
You may have noticed a new con in the sidebar. Madicon 22 has invited me to be a guest along with longtime buds (and great writers!) Jana Oliver, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine, as well as friends-to-be Jonah Knight, Megan Amberly and R.S. Belcher. The dates to...
Still working on revisions, so I’ll stick with Highway for this weekend’s Six Sentence Sunday. This snippet comes after DeeCee deForrest, aka Eurydice, has made it past Deadlands Immigration to the ground transportation area of the main immigration...
I’m still working my HfH rewrite. This time my Sunday Six is a little bit of description. Enjoy! A storm system dumped a couple inches of white stuff on the ground a couple days after Martin Luther King’s birthday. But snow doesn’t usually stick on the mesa,...
Let’s see if I can squeak in under the Six Sentence Sunday wire with the first six sentences of my ongoing WIP, Highway From Hell–the story of Orpheus from Eurydice’s POV. Enjoy! Snakes. Why did Orpheus have to collect snakes? “It slithered right...
While I was at Balticon. Sorry about that, folks. Hopefully, changing the password took care of that. The con, however, was great. Joshua Palmatier and I hosted the Maryland launch of The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity with help from his brothers Jacob...
Posted the photos of my adventures in Nebula Land on my Flickr account. This is the direct link. For the first time anywhere, anywhen, I took more video than photos. So far, the only video posted is the Neil Gaiman interview at Buzzy Mag, but there are lots more on...
This year’s Balticon will nothing if not exciting. I’m scheduled for fifteen (fifteen!) panels. Gulp. Friday 4:00 pm (Salon B) Symbology of Animals in Folk and Fairy Tales (Readers Track) Are certain animals used to symbolize certain character types. How? Why? In a...
If you ever needed proof that I’m a total fan girl, here it is: my Nebula Awards Banquet interview with Neil Gaiman. Enjoy!
