Next to Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day (and Dragon*Con), this is my favorite night of the year. Because after tonight, THE DAYS START GETTING LONGER. I’ve written up a little essay about it over at the Waterworld Mermaids, click here to go check it out. Comments over there are encouraged. (I’m shutting these off.) Light a candle for me…
Those chosen few who read Beauty & Dynamite know that back in 2005 I had a cancer scare because of a tiny mass they found during a chest x-ray. We named the “tumor” and made jokes and I was so scared to death by how everyone around me was acting that I pushed up the surgery date just to…
When I first saw the call for submissions for their “Little Red Riding Hood” themed issue, I knew I had to contribute. But I didn’t know how. Hasn’t Riding Hood been done to death? How was I going to retell that? Most of all, how was I going to retell it and not have some sort of less-than-subtlesexual undertones…
A Google Alert sent me over to the Dana Does Read Blog today and…yes, contrary to my usual “I don’t read reviews” strategy, I read this one. It totally made my day (which has been a serious case of the Mondays, let me tell you). This is my favorite part of the review: “I found myself smiling through the…
This year’s CD artwork was inspired (as so many things are) by two of Janet Lee’s holiday ornaments. They are both available in this year’s 2011 limited edition set at Art & Invention Gallery, as well as on Janet’s own Etsy site (for those of us who don’t live convenient to East Nashville). 1. The Most Wonderful Day Of…
Merry Bookmas, to one and all!
I have a migraine today. Not fun. We’re going to see the Adam Ezra Group in Roanoke tonight, though, so hopefully it will pass by then. I’m armed with Starbucks & Imitrex, and Joe’s driving. In the meantime, I’m giving away boxes of books on Twitter. Go tell me your favorite genre, so I know which hat to put…
It was the first Tori Amos concert I’ve ever been to that I didn’t know all the songs. That was weird. Inevitably, though, there was one song she sang that I didn’t realize I needed to hear until the lyrics gave me goosebumps. “Winter” is a good song, but it probably wouldn’t be on my Top 20 list of…
I just got a Google Alert. I clicked on it, because I thought it was odd that “Ken Griffey Shoes” would be reviewing AlphaOops: H is for Halloween. But stranger things have happened…maybe Ken has a kid who loves books? Everybody has a kid who loves books! So I click through to this blog whose header is a lone…
I have saved almost everything I’ve ever written. Fiction, I mean, or poetry, or essays for school, for pleasure, and everything in between. I have several drafts of some things. A lot of it is dated. Much of it is not. I can’t tell you the exact date I wrote “The Sands of Mother Christmas,” but the age of…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter…
Dearest Squad, A new chapter is now live! Chapter…
