Tree House Tales
THT is a collection of my short stories, anecdotes, original art and short extracts from four of my Narenta fantasy novels.

Most of the stories are fantasy. Most of the anecdotes are humorous.

One short story, "Shadow Harper" was previously published in Spencer Hill's "UnConventional, Twenty-Two Tales..."
One anecdote, "Baffled ( Read more... )

People are leaving multiple spammish comments after some of my entries--"Multiple" as in between 6 and 100--forcing me to increase blog security. Please do respond to my entries anyway! I love comments! Just sign your comment with a name, avatar handle, etc. LJ's software notifies me immediately when there's a screened comment. Since I'm on the ( Read more... )

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People are leaving multiple spammish comments after some of my entries--"Multiple" as in between 6 and 100--forcing me to increase blog security. Please do respond to my entries anyway! I love comments! Just sign your comment with a name, avatar handle, etc. LJ's software notifies me immediately when there's a screened comment. Since I'm on the ( Read more... )

Exactly two years ago today (9 10 2011), I posted "The Daffodil Principle" here at LJ.

See tree-lady.livejournal.com/105052.html

I don't remember what steps in which projects I hoped to to accomplish in the following two years. I didn't make a list. Maybe I should have. I wonder what I would think of its contents today?

"Seabird" was published ( Read more... )

1,000,000 Words (More or Less). An Update of Scribblings: 918,000 Words.

Once in a while, I've tossed "a half million words" into a conversation. (I talk a lot.) Seriously, if I needed to come up with a figure on how much I’ve written, I’d guesstimate 500,000 words. I was way wrong, increasingly so over the years!

A couple or three years ago, I ( Read more... )

My Reason to Keep On Writing (Not)

I tried to post the following to Mike Duran's latest entry at DeCompose titled, "Your Reason to Keep Writing".
However, it still hasn't appeared while comments with later time stamps have turned up.
I'm beginning to suspect that he's blocking my comments.   :0
Maybe because I keep writing non-upbeat responses ( Read more... )

A little while ago, a presumably much perplexed Diane asked fellow LGG member Kat how to get copies of both "Seabird" and "Earthbow"  in one piece each. Kat referred her to me.Diane's email: "I would like to purchase your books but Kat told me I should ask you if you have any print copies that aren't split ( Read more... )

Everyone at Young Adult Authors You've Never Heard Of (YAAYNHO) is throwing a combined give-away contest in celebration of our first year on the web. Yeah, it's been a whole year already. There will be 3-4 bundles of prizes and you enter separately for each one bundle. This first one includes my "Seabird", and "Earthbow" volumes. one and two.
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Apr 30 2012:I thought this was my 2000th post but it wasn't.

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted recently, the last time I posted to my LiveJournal blog, “Scribblings”, I noticed a stat at the top of the page saying that I had posted 1999 times so far--since Nov 2007. Naturally, in order to commemorate the upcoming milestone, I felt that ( Read more... )