Moments n fiction and in life A life is made of moments. It is stitched together from the things you remember most vividly — the peaks and the valleys, the…Continue readingMoments
I live in a house of books. My husband is a bibliophile. So am I. The cumulative effect is catastrophic. He had HIS books, I had MY books, and when…Continue readingBOOOOOOOOKS!!!
At warp speed When I wrote the novel “Spellspam“, the second in my Worldweavers series, I was sure that the playful term which I had invented to describe spam which…Continue readingInvented any words lately?
There are times my subconscious almost scares me. Waking into a new day, I linger for a moment on the shores of the dream sea before I come back to…Continue readingHardhat Zone: Novel in Progress
A marvelous writer, Steven Barnes, recently wrote about a book that changed his life, and that inspired me to do the same. But I can’t possibly pick just one, I…Continue readingLife-changing books
Taking her with me into the shadows of my dreams While I was updating my Le Guin collection with the Hainish books I lacked, in preparation for my Big Re-Read…Continue readingRe-reading Ursula
Okay so I saw a bunch of trailers for this movie – but that was an under-the-radar kind of thing, I looked because it had “Book Club” in the title,…Continue readingSometimes it takes a Book Club…
…there is soot So, I was downstairs in the office working on my latest book while hubs was upstairs, making baked potatoes for supper. Often when I’m writing, I am…Continue readingWhere there’s smoke…
I have read thousands of novels, but only a bare handful I can call perfect — books I love with a pure and undying passion, to which I return, over…Continue readingAnatomy of a perfect book