It started when Google told us… No, it started when the website decided to… Oh, we’ve had TROUBLE. Right here in River City. And the Trouble started with an H…Continue readingYou’ve been hacked!!!
Unh, no, not the wizard…maybe an android? In the years I have spent in the United States, I have gone through cycles of going to conventions in my genre. It…Continue readingOff to see the…
Jakub Pavlovsky https://www.almaalexander.org/read-anywhere A couple of years ago, the Odyssey Writing Workshop in New Hampshire invited me as a guest lecturer and asked some interesting questions. (Slightly abridged) What is…Continue readingBest writing advice? READ
In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but leavened…Continue readingHow to build a world
The poet speaks of Love A little while ago I wrote an essay-review of the movie “The Shape of Water”, which incorporated the poem quoted at the story’s end, attributed…Continue readingRUMInations
A couple of weeks ago I posted my awestruck reactions to the movie ‘Shape of Water’, writing “It’s savage. It’s beautiful. It’s funny. It’s spellbinding.” I wrote about the moment…Continue readingDreaming to Publication
From Official Trailer | FOX Searchlight A few years ago, on the lam from a convention which was utterly failing to hold our interest, my husband and I and a…Continue reading“For you are everywhere.”
I was there. Oh yes, I was there. I was one of the original “virgins” who walked into a movie theatre in 1977 – in my case, between to life-size…Continue readingThe Last Jedi and Me
Photo by Michael Lomza at Ubsplash: Marianne’s Palace, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki, Poland There was a question posted in LiveJournal a few years back: You find yourself in front of seven identical…Continue readingWhich door would you pick?