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Today Is My Birthday!

I rang in my birthday with the Adam Ezra Group serenading me in full Rocking Style, with glitter on my face and a tiara on my head. I slept in, all cuddled up to my warm giant, who took me out for a breakfast gyro before I got in the car (blech) and drove back to Baltimore to pick…

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Princess Alethea Rants About…Stuff

On Today’s Youtube Fairy Tale Rant episode,  have chosen to rant about “The Fox and The Geese”, a very short fairy tale…because I am very exhausted. I also vent about what made me really, really angry this morning. So if YOU end up being angry about this news…trust me. I’m upset enough for all of us. Just know I…

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VERY LIMITED EDITION of DoaMSGG NOW AVAILABLE!

Just what it says up there: Janet Lee and I had a very limited number of the very first edition of Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome available at Comic Book City Con in Greensboro in October. This edition was a trial run — we plan to repeat this same format on future editions, but we will be…

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Princess Alethea, Strolling About the Web

Today feels like the TRUE first day of 2014 for me — yesterday was an exhausted flurry of getting Soteria out of the hospital and then working my aunt’s New Years party for 82 hours, so this is my day to jump back in swinging. AND BOY, AM I SWINGING. * First up: I have a blog post today…

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Give the Gift of Reading

Would you like a book personalized & signed by Alethea? Contact One More Page Books in Arlington at 703-300-9746 or via email to place your order. Online affiliate links for Alethea’s books can be found HERE.

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Princess Alethea Rants About “The Fir Tree”

Now that I’ve run away for Christmas (decided on the Solstice to drive 9 hours down to Charleston SC to spend some of the holiday with my little sister & my parents), I am SUPER glad that I recorded this video last week. Hooray! (Now the challenge is going to be making sure I get one out *next* week…)…

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Spark

This is one of the entries referred to in the original Beauty & Dynamite as “The Lost Blogs.” Recovered from the bowels of the intarwebs by Eric James Stone, all of The Lost Blogs will appear in the revised edition of Beauty & Dynamite…including this poem in celebration of the Winter Solstice, marking the beginning of my love for…

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The Young and the Darkness

I’m over at the Apex blog today talking about “The Young and the Darkness”, otherwise known as Things I am Accused of Being that are Assumed to be Mutually Exclusive. Click here to read “The Young and the Darkness.” We go into the short stories and poetry I loved as a child…and the short stories and poetry I write…

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When Family Christmas Videos Go Viral

Over at the Waterworld Mermaids today, I’m chatting about this year’s viral sensation “Christmas Jammies” #xmasjammies It’s a supercute video that’s been seen over seven million times…but this time, watch it again and *think* about it. I did — read my thoughts here: http://waterworldmermaids.com/2013/12/famous-jammies/ I’m interested to know your opinions!

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Princess Alethea Rants About “The Companionship of the Cat & Mouse”

Your fairy tale rant for today: “The Companionship of the Cat & Mouse” WARNING: THIS ENDS BADLY. Proceed with caution. …and enjoy!

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