Tales from the Raven

Some days just feel like a continental slide.  You’re ready and willing to address the needs of the day, but those needs keep tilting and tripping all over one another.  Today would be one of those days–probably ’cause it’s bumping up against October and can feel our impatience to be on with the next month.  Personally, [...]

Somewhere on this blog in the not too distant past, I talked about my rewrites and waxed eloquent about my latest changes to 13 Demon Days.  This time, I’d really figured it out.  This time, I’d broken the code and sorted all the puzzles pieces so progress would go forward without any more hiccups or bumps. [...]

I like to cut my own hair, and have gotten so I can usually pull it off without the need for a brown paper bag standing by.  My favorite is the layered cut, ’cause it takes my heavy mane and makes it manageable and, as an added plus, is very forgiving of mistakes. Just for comparisons sake, this [...]

With several Popcorn queries going the rounds and more on their way, I’ve decided to enter Mary of Kidlit.com’s query contest.  It will be interesting to see how the contest goes, and my thanks to Mary for giving us this opportunity. Luck to all the entries!

No idea where the pic came from, but it was too awesome to go un-shared.   All those arms and legs–I just discovered how the instinctive species-wide need to nurture and protect a baby can be squashed.  Waaay too much of a good thing!

This week I came quite close to meeting my goal.  So close, in fact, that some would wonder why I didn’t just write the last few words and see it met. My deliberation process lasted just long enough to realize that pushing through to the finish tonight would mean forgoing my evening out with hubby and delicious Chinese [...]

We were delighted to find that all our animals have survived our vacation.  In fact, some of them have thrived.  The chickens have been helping themselves to the cats’ food, and look bigger.  And check out this mushroom. It’s growing out by the gate.  That’s my womens size nine shoe in the background providing perspective. [...]

There’s a special quality to food one finds in airports–a unique something that I can’t quite put my finger on but tastes a lot like extortion.  This lovely $6.00 grilled cheese is an excellent example. And this picture was taken after I sent it back to get the cheese melted.  Perhaps they predicted it would [...]

I’ve been accepted to bootcamp! After watching the mail for a week, I almost missed the email when it came. I can’t wait to meet my fellow students, and I’m totally stoked to spend a whole week focusing on nothing but writing. Oh, and it’ll be cool to take classes directly from Orson Scott Card, [...]

I planned to come up with some cute story featuring my elusive hacker, but by the time the site was up again, and I faced its homely regression, I found myself feeling less charitable toward Mr. Hacker and have cut him out of the story. Instead, I’m going with the quick catch-up news blurb: We’re [...]