Tales from the Raven

A Star’s Seduction, is up at EDF.  This is one of several stories I’ve written in my world of magic and mechanics, diverse kinds of humans, underwater mer, and meru (half human, half mer), plus all of the magically enhanced and altered creatures which inhabit the world.  Enjoy!

I’m delighted to report that Every Day Fiction has decided to include Storm’s Rising in their year’s end anthology.  My understanding is the antho will be hard copy, and will hopefully be available before Christmas. Since Storm’s Rising is easily my favorite of my flash pieces, I have to give the editors an extra big thanks for giving it this second [...]

I know this is late notice, but sometimes that just means you can’t forget about the event, and may actually have your schedule pinned down. So, celebrate the Durham Art Walk this Saturday, Nov. 1st, with Alan Welch anytime between 11:00 and 3:00pm.  This was his summary: I will have almost all my models there in costume, [...]

I’m adding Being Cindy to my blogroll–welcome!  Cindy has the good grace to think like I do–that YA fantasy is an awesome genre to enjoy just now–and also writes lovely poetry.  More than that, though, Cindy exudes sunshine.  So on cloudy days, or whenever, check out her blog. I’m also linking to some really cool [...]

I just got word from Eric Reynolds that Ruins Extraterrestrial, an anthology in which I have a story, will be arriving in brick and mortar big chain stores around the country!  This is very exciting news, as I’ve had so many family members and friends wanting to know where they can buy a copy…and loathe to do it [...]

And flipping cartwheels–that too.  Becca’s got a contract on her book, Hush, Hush!  After going to auction, no less.  I’m beside myself thrilled for her, and feel highly privileged to have seen it in the premie stages.  It’s also very encouraging, since I know Becca put lots of love, sweat and tears into rewrites and [...]

I really should make this several nice, long, chatty blogs…but, ya know, life is moving on and I’m moving on with it.  So you’ll get the crammed, somewhat shorter version.  And my graduation report?  It’ll probably be even more crammed and tardy as well. The rest of WorldCon was great, though a bit blurred.  We [...]

I was swaying on my feet by the end of the day, so this will be shorter than it should be.  Yesterday (Wednesday) we caught a couple panels after registering, and I thoroughly enjoyed the one on writing a good query letter, offered by Kristen Nelson.  She was upbeat and funny while being very informative.  [...]

The pieces fell into place at the last minute for us to attend Trinocon, so we scooted over there and enjoyed our first relaxacon.  We made a pretty full day of it, with lots of good panels, but my favorite panel would have to be the world building one in which we, the audience, got [...]

On Tuesday last I recieved my signed copy of Dragonforge, James Maxey’s newly released second book in the Dragon Age saga.  This book was one I got to see in the development stage, and had read the first half months ago, so I expected to skim ahead ’til I found the spot where’d I’d left off.  Instead I found myself [...]