My second post over at Heroines of Fantasy went up today.  I think it should create some conversation, make people think and hopefully inspire people to write... or maybe not, but that was the intent!  It can be read here.

You can see the post hereHeroines of Fantasy is a space I've admired from a distance for some time, as they seem to share most of my values, but also support some people whose image of an ideal world differs greatly from mine.  However, by the simple act of asking me to be one of their contributors, they showed that my admiration was justified.   ( Read more... )

Has been a hectic week, and next week should see even less activity from me, as I will be on a beach...

But Classically Educated goes on, and today we have an excerpt from msstacy13's monumental work-in-progress about the second wordl war.  You can enjoy the excerpt here, as always, comments are extremely welocme!

So, the day has finally come - I have decided to close down my LJ, or at least cut back drastically on interaction here.  The reasons aren't a mystery, when I joined LJ, I immediately became part of a large community of writers which included a number of people I was appearing on ToCs with as well as many others that I came to truly admire and like ( Read more... )

Unusually, considering my predilection for the art form, Literature had been kind of absent at Classically Educated so far - but that changed with today's guest post, and, if I know my friends, will open the floodgates of many, many offers of articles (which are more than welcome ( Read more... )

Internationally, tango is considered a glamorous, high-end activity.  It opens the imagination to a magical world of tough men and sensual women, cobbled streets in dim light ( Read more... )

As many of you have commented over the past couple of years, LJ has been getting quieter and quieter.  What used to be a vibrant community of writers and others is now composed of a hard-core group of survivors who just refuse to let go ( Read more... )

There's a new guest post up on Classically Educated, this time by one of LJ's finest: msstacy13!  This means, of course, that the post is awesome, plus it is about airships, so doubly so!

And remember that I finally created the fan page, so you can stay up to date on the happenings there even if you don't check your LJ (or if I forget to post about it

Well, I went ahead and created the fan page for Classically Educated (I have been hugely productive since I started that blog for some reason.  I think it does talk to a niche which is close to my heart, I guess) which will allow anyone interested to see updates on the day they happen on their FB Timeline.  All you have to do is click like for that ( Read more... )

There's a new post up on the Classically Educated blog, one of mine this time.  I'm amazed at how well the blog is growing and advancing.  We had several hundred hits on Scarlett's guest post (that one really seemed to resonate with a large part of the readership), which surprised us a lot ( Read more... )