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>Sunday Linkage and Other Things
>First off, let me start by apologizing if nothing makes sense this morning. The dog, who happens to think he’s a cat, decided it would be a very good thing to get me up at 0430, then at 0500, at...
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He Beats Me But He’s My Publisher
–By Sarah Hoyt First let me point out no one beats me. Not literally. For those of you who’ve read Athena (Darkship Thieves) this should not be an incredible surprise. The title is denoting of the...
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Taking my Peeve for a Walk
This reader has a few pet peeves. Most of the time I just avoid them, but once in a while I put them on a leash and take them for a stroll, because I am also a writer, and knowing where the peeve has...
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Book Horde
Hi, my name is Cedar, and I hoard books… There is a beauty in old books. I was thinking this last night as I looked at the stack of books on my nightstand, and then read myself to sleep with a book on...
View ArticleI’m a Quitter
Hangs head, shuffles toe in the dirt. So, um, yeah… About that. I picked up the habit over thirty years ago. The deal is, once you start, you can’t stop. Not that anyone ever taught me that. They don’t...
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Quitting Time
It’s not that I’m quitting reading, oh, no. What I did was learn how to put a bad book down instead of letting it suck part of my life away. Yeah, there have been books that painful… Only, sometimes...
View ArticleSad Puppies 5 and recommendation lists
Sigh. There are mornings when it really doesn’t pay to get out of bed. Or perhaps I should learn not to look at my phone as soon as I get up. What usually happens when I do is that I see something on...
View ArticleTuesday morning links and thoughts
I am up to my eyes in finishing up a major rewrite so I can finally send Dagger of Elanna to press. Because of that, I forgot today was my day for MGC. So, when I did finally remember, I went looking...
View ArticleUnwarranted Assumptions
Some men give their wives jewelry. Others proffer chocolates, or flowers. My husband? Gives me blog posts when he sees that I am tired, overwhelmed, and stretched to the snapping point. I started a...
View ArticleGood Books for Young Readers
I had a question posed over on my blog yesterday, and I thought that I’d ask for help here (and on social media) in answering it. Here’s the question: Thanks mainly to Sarah’s blog introducing me to...
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Out With the Old
In with the new It’s not always a good thing, to sweep out the old with a clean broom and throw open the shutters to let the light come streaming in. Let me explain. No, let me show you. Some of the...
View ArticleComfort Reads
It’s two weeks into the new year – the time when those of us who regularly went to the gym in December can now go back, as the tide of resolutionistas has receded. How are you doing on your...
View ArticleThe little cabbages..
Hear about the e-book of a fight between vampires for dominance in the story world? It’s about who gets to be the bit or the byte players. Ow. Stop hitting me. Cease with the carp. I repent (at least...
View ArticleIn the absence of Mr. Character
In the absence of Mr. Character… Who steps in? We all know the bloke who is most conspicuous by his or her absence. Sometimes this is an event to be celebrated, or not, but what is truly visible (even...
View ArticleCompensatory Mechanisms
There are times I hate being a writer. One of the things it does is set me at odds with normal (or really, abnormal but not writers) human beings, and prevents the enjoyment of simple pleasures that...
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Great American Literature, or Great American Stories
The third world-building post will be in two weeks. It’s coming, never fear. But apropos of the piece at The Passive Voice/Wall Street Journal, and the never-ending debate about “what is real...
View ArticleFoundations
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy? One of the things I’ve learned in the process of building our own farm from nothing more than a patch of bush with a fantastic sea view, is that...
View ArticleComfort books
There are times when I don’t really want something new to read, times when I feel so beaten down that all I really want is to pass my eyes over a book I love so much I’ve all but memorized it already....
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“…Little Is That I’ve Not Been.”
Fredrick Barbarossa awakens! Photo by author, mural in the Kaisarpfalz in Goslar, Germany. I was listening to a very modern setting of part of the “Battle of the Trees,” the Cad Goddeu. The poem, or...
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Thinking Like a Stranger
A schematic of a patrician’s home/ware-house in the Hansa Museum in Lübeck, Germany. Author photo. Well, that’s what all writers do, isn’t it? We get inside the heads of fictional people and other...
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