In an earlier entry, I mentioned being asked about sacred objects and passed along the questions for general consumption. I did not post my own answers, since I didn't want to pollute anyone else's brainstorm. However, Randy Hoyt from Journey to the Sea and others mentioned wanting to know what I'd come up with, so here's my original answer, in all ( Read more... )

Quick reminder: tomorrow is the last day to enter this week's contest. The Blue Fairy Book could be yours!

Randy Hoyt, the editor of Journey to the Sea, and I have been talking back and forth for awhile about some of the concepts that come up in my blog entries here, particularly, recently, the difference between what a thing *is* and what a thing ( Read more... )

...and I'm back! Thanksgiving and the following week have been very busy here as we've moved and have been unpacking boxes and trying to find the floor under our piles of books. But this week, I had a real live guest blogger, so I had to make sure to return by Friday ( Read more... )

There have been a couple of really interesting posts lately, both in livejournals I read (irysangel and sartorias) and in other blogs (Genreville) about what we carry with us as readers when we approach a work of fiction. Sometimes we as readers demand a happy ending, or "good writing" (whatever that means). Sometimes we have expectations that a work of fiction will ( Read more... )

October is my favorite month, so I'm a little sheepish that I entirely missed it here at livejournal. We managed to fill our social schedule to the gills and then collapse thereafter because we were quite exhausted with the hullaballoo, and as I'm sure many of you lj users know, once you stop blogging, getting back in the habit is a challenge ( Read more... )

A couple of quick notes before we get to the guest blog today (the first in awhile, I know!). First is that the e-book of Serenity Adventures is now available at Drive Thru RPG as an e-book. I have word that the book is off to print as well, getting words actually embedded on paper, and it will soon exist in tangible format. In the meantime, the ( Read more... )