Tales from the Raven

With the umpteenth re-write of 13 Demon Days coming along, I’m once again updating my agent list.  And I’ve found the perfect way to keep myself energized while I search.
 
Listen to lots of Buffy music!
Now, I could go into the subconscious reasons as to why music to slay by is also great for agent hunting…but [...]

This is what happens when you make bread without paying close attention:
 
It may look like some kind of delicious bundt cake with a scrumptious icing (maybe if your prescription glasses need updating?) but it’s actually a loaf of bread that has at least one, perhaps two extra cups of flour.  When I was halfway through the [...]

I know everyone else is posting pics of the snow, but I’ve been too busy dealing with the after effects of our basement flood from almost a week ago.
Here’s the laundry, or most of it:
 
And here are the books that now reside on our kitchen table.  They wave their pages gently in the breeze, and [...]

Otherwise known as ‘the clippings on the cutting room floor after The Popcorn Potion has been through yet another round of edits.’
Today’s outtake comes from the first couple of pages, and represents a fairly dramatic redirection of my opener.  Some of you may recognize a reference or two, and make the logical leap as to [...]

Tonight I was at our locel grocery store, picking up the all important cranberry juice*, when I heard a child’s voice pipe up from nearby.
“Mom, where are you?”
My own kids were safe at home, but once a mom, always a mom.  My nurturing instincts kicked in and I looked around, expecting to find a tear-streaked or [...]

A: My blog sat on your blog.
Or, so I suspect it will say.  And how do I know Wednesday and Saturday will be in this unique conversation?  Simple.  I’ve decided that it’s time to put the blog on a diet schedule so that it can stop this feast or famine cycle going on.  Perhaps my dear, [...]

It’s been a while since I blogged about the reef tank, and since I didn’t think you were all that interested in hearing how many times I’ve sneezed in the last few days (372), or the height of my discarded tissue pile (4′2”), today seemed a good day to blog about our new Flame Angel [...]

I’ve been living and breathing the technical and business side of writing, of late.  Over a year ago I started a Master file on agents, now I’m going over that with a fine toothed comb as I sort out which agents I should sub Popcorn Potion to, and when.  My synopsis is taking way too [...]

You know it’s a good laugh when you start reading the post aloud before you’ve read it through.  You know it’s even better when your reading has to take long pauses while you catch you breath from laughing.
May I direct you to…
Jim Hines Slush Reading, Seuss Style.
It’s tough to pick favorite lines, but these really [...]

Cats and yarn.  They seem to go together…everyone has the mental image of an old granny in her rocker with her cats about her feet and the knitting needles going at a million miles a minute.
Of course, the other image that comes to mind looks something like this:
 
And I’m discovering that this is no accident.  [...]