Dear Morlock Ambrosius,

I love you, I adore you, I worship you, I have wanted to jump your crooked bones from the MOMENT you first appeared on the PAGE, dang it, and why does Vocate Aloê get all the hot Makers in Laent anyway? Hi ( Read more... )

"Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my heart could utter
The thoughts that arise in me..."- Tennyson ( Read more... )

On Friday morning, I boarded a train in Westerly bound for D.C ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, okay -- SO! At the World Fantasy Convention last year, I got the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

I used to subscribe to this magazine, back in my early twenties when I was living at home with no rent and making beaucoup bucks as a massage therapist (along with every other magazine ever, because, as my ( Read more... )

I am reading James Enge's Guile of Dragons and have felt a keen despair ( Read more... )

All right. So I've been reading again. Why? Well, I think it's in prep for later tonight, when I start writing a novel. I mean to have the first draft done before ReaderCon next month. Ambitious? Perhaps. Extremely silly? Most likely. Unheard of? Nope. I done did it before, now let's see if I can do it again only WITHOUT NaNoWriMo cheerleaders ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm here in a private corral of the Westerly Public Library, where AT LAST I am going to listen to THIS COOL THING ( Read more... )

With ROBIN HOBB and MARTHA WELLS!!! Among other august personages.Why didn't I think of CHRESTOMANCI??? And PRYDAIN ( Read more... )

This is pretty much the only important thing I'll ever have to say ever ALL DAY LONG and I can't even tell you how happy this makes me because you wouldn't believe me ANYWAY!!!

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Congratulations, jamesengeAnd now, I will quietly keel over and let tremors of SPLENDIFEROUS YEE-HAW wrack me ( Read more... )

This morning when I woke, my hair was still damp in its braids from last night. And as I took it down and examined it in the morning light, I did see some silver there ( Read more... )