-
To Sleep, Perchance
One of those odd nights -- does anyone else have these? No, Sarah, just you -- where I felt I slept too deeply and woke up as though I were at the bottom of a deep dark well, holding myself so resolutely "in" that my shoulders hurt from the strain. No idea what these nights are all about. Not going to give my head to anyone for shrinking, but I ( Read more... ) -
A French Polished Murder
*HOW did I forget to give you guys a taste of this? It came out in April. A French Polished Murder, by Elise Hyatt. Yeah, it's me, of course.*
A French Polished Murder
The Fast And the Electrically Furious
We were thirty years old - and, in his case, a couple of months -- when I came to the sad conclusion that I would have to murder my friend ( Read more... ) -
Mama said there'd be days like this
So the novel I've been working on -- The Brave and The Free seems to be the working title. No, I don't know why reversed -- and which is, metaphorically speaking, all in pieces on the garage floor, possibly mixed with a clock's innards, finally became clear last night. All of a sudden I knew which pieces went in, which pieces got chucked and ( Read more... ) -
Going Bump In The Night
So I wake up in the middle of the night, with something akin to the sound of a sailing ship under stress in a high gale. "creak, creak, creak ( Read more... ) -
Free Ebook and Sample
*I've collected all my Elizabethan Era short stories into a short book called The Private Wound. The title story is an alternate history with Queen Elizabeth. The book also contains two mysteries and (I'm sorry!) a vampire story. About half of the stories are unpublished. One way or another, it is rather Marlowe Infested. If you like these stories ( Read more... ) -
Because this is ebook week
I've established a site, that I promise will link to my own site soon! with links and offerings of (my) free downloadable stuff ( Read more... ) -
I think this might be a totally new art form
Seriously, I think my boy is doing something new with the way he uses his LJ.
Maybe we should get him a tip jar. I mean, he needs to pay for premed and eventually for med school. Besides, let's face it, sooner or later, he'll have to pay for med... potent, probably: http://robertahoyt. -
By Their Cats Thou Shalt Know Them
By Their Cats Thou Shalt Know Them
Mumble years ago, my husband and I were sitting in a comedy club in Charlotte NC when the poor visiting comedian decided to make a riff on common cats’ names versus common dogs’ names, or such. He started by saying that dogs were given manly names - I don’t remember the examples he gave - while cats got names... ( Read more... ) -
An mp3 reading
The three chapters are below, but this is an mp3 of me reading the first two chapters. YES that IS my real accent. (I was born and raised abroad.) No, I don't normally sound like that. Athena made me!
http://darkshipthieves.com/audio/darkship1-2.mp3 (warning: 27MB