The Written Remains Writers Guild reading at the New Castle Public Library went off perfectly this afternoon. Justin set everything up, Carol was at the book table and Ramona introduced us all. I don't know what the capacity of the room is, but we filled it or close to filled it. I read first (from Earthbow vol.1), then Greg, then Weldon, then ( Read more... )

The Written Remains Writers Guild will be holding a "Mixed Genre Fiction Reading" at the New Castle Public Library (in Delaware) on April 16 at 2 p.m. We will be in the Community Room.

Members who will be reading include:
Weldon Burge
J. M. Reinbold
Greg Smith
Sherry Thompson
Kristy Truax-Nichols

I expect to be reading from "Earthbow" vol.1, my fantasy ( Read more... )

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... )

"Not Quite a New Year's Resolution"

At Facebook's group "How Many Pages Did You Write Today", Ramona de Felice Long asked participating authors to post their work resolution or creativity goals for the coming year.

I answered:
My ongoing project for the next 2 years is to assemble all of G&B currently written, and write the remaining chapters-- ( Read more... )

... with apologies to a great friend & e-mail correspondent. Much of the contents of this post are harvested from two of our recent emails.

For anyone reading who didn't know, I broke my ankle on the 9th and have essentially been sitting at home ever since. See the previous post, titled "Whoopsie" for all the details.

Monday, the 27th
(We were ( Read more... )

PhilCon at Cherry Hill, NJ, Nov 19-21.

I will be attending Philcon, this weekend (Nov 19-21), as a member of Broad Universe--a group of female Speculative Fiction writers. I don't have any details yet; however, we should be scheduled for a BU Rapid Fire Reading and book-signing.  Principal Speaker: Peter S. Beagle.  Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cherry ( Read more... )

Okay, so I wasn't actually away. The truth is I've ignored my poor blog while working on "Earthbow Volume 2", and while frantically looking for all of the fragments of "The Gryphon and the Basilisk" (Narenta - Tumult #3), some of which was hiding in the freezer. (story for another day)

Here in subject-and-link format is a summary of what's been ( Read more... )

Dave just emailed me that Earthbow Volume 1 is now available on Amazon. Earthbow is the sequel to Seabird but you don't have to read Seabird first to enjoy it. It is being published in two volumes because it is so long. I'm currently doing final revisions on Earthbow Volume 2 so hopefully there won't be too much of a wait before it's on Amazon as ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, KB and I went up to Between Books In Claymont Delaware, for a book-signing party by the Liar's Club. The L's C consists of about 13 authors who write a variety of narrative--mystery, SF, historical fiction, YA, Fantasy and Horror.

We arrived about ten minutes after 3 and with the presentation already in progress. The Liar's Club is ( Read more... )

Scattered Thoughts is part of the subtitle of this blog.
Usually I try to ordered my thoughts chronologically by event, but I'm not even going to give it a go this time. If you follow Scribblings, you know that most of the stuff recently has centered around 4 floods in my apartment--with an occasional "off-topic" word or two about writing or books ( Read more... )