The first voice exercise that Barbara Samuel had us do was write for four minutes on this topic: Describe the house you lived in when you were seven years old. Timer set? GO! Here’s what I wrote: ******** I still dream about the house on Splendora Drive. It was in a subdivision called Candlewood, down a long road through…
(I wrote this on Friday, but wasn’t able to post it until today–AK) I finished reading Jude Deveraux‘s Heartwishes this afternoon. It was the very definition of a treat. Jude Deveraux is one of my favorite authors of all time, and when I saw her book on the New Arrivals table, I snapped it up. Her Knight in Shining…
Leanna Renee Hieber and I will be teaming up with our fellow SFWA authors and participating in the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday, September 24th. The festival is located on Charles Street in Baltimore, which will be closed to traffic for the festivities. Click here for driving directions. Click here for a list of all the fantastic presenting authors!…
The alphabet IS so long that children often fall asleep before the end.
There are those days in our lives that we consider our Best Days. I’m not sure I could pick out one as The Best Day Ever, but there are certainly ones I will never forget: my high school graduation, Orson Scoot Card’s Boot Camp, selling my first book, really kissing Joe for the first time. The Saturday of Dragon*Con…
I honestly don’t know what to say. No one from the Codex Writers has ever died before. I’ve been in shock since I woke up this morning and saw all the Tweets and thought groggily, “I know that name. He’s a movie star, isn’t he? Movie stars are named Colin.” Our Colin was a star, all right. I hope…
The infamous Luc Reid — optimistic motivator, SF writer, award winner, member of the League of Unextraordinary Gentlepersons, and founder of the Codex Writers Group. In Luc’s infinite wisdom, he decided to post pages of memorable quotes by its fantabulous members, lifted from the Codex forums (with permission, of course). In Luc’s own words: I love the group not…
The lovely, haunting book trailer for Leanna Renee Hieber‘s Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul, coming in November! Want more? Read the first 30 pages here!
Because it’s never too early to start thinking about Dragon*Con! Here’s my schedule. Make a note. Write it down. Punch it into your phone. Most importantly, do not miss the reading on Friday, otherwise known as PRINCESS ALETHEA’S TRAVELING SIDESHOW! As before, the first 48 people will get free bags filled with amazing awesomeness. (And by awesomeness, I don’t…
Some things in this life are just incredibly hard for even me to imagine. Leslie Banks not being in this world is one of them. Yes, I knew she was sick. I knew it was bad. Even that was hard enough to get my head around. In the grand scheme of things, this morning’s news was to be expected…
I finished my novel on Wednesday. I had such…
Joan Wilder was always my hero. I was 8…
tl;dr – If you give us $10 or more,…
