Tales from the Raven

I’ve been thinking how some chicken moms just don’t seem to get it.  They lay their eggs in the silliest places.  I mean, really!  What chick would want to hatch here? In case you can’t tell, that’s a cat crate.  And something tells me that any fluffy little chicks who hatched out of these eggs would [...]

This is what comes from rampant flights of imaginative wonder coupled with a tendency to obsess.  I didn’t mean it to happen.  I was just day-dreaming a bit and thinking up a spunky little fellow for 13 Demon Days, but apparently my creativity has taken on a life of its own.  Look what followed us home [...]

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. [...]

The Burfy!  These loveable creatures are magical pets that double as training tools and sometimes spies in 13 Demon Days.  They are formed from pure magic–or erelectra, as I call it–and tend to soak up and mimic whateve their owner does or says.  Kind of like a parrot crossed with a puppy in the form of a fluffy [...]

February has so far been my worst month ever at getting blog posts up, and for the lamest reasons.  I’ve had lots to post about–it’s just all focused on my novel rewrites.  And, since repeating how grateful I am that the rewrites are going well and reporting that I’m still hard at work on 13 Demon Days gets boring, I’ve just ended up [...]

The blog’s been neglected, the Christmas is still stacked ramble-bamble in a corner of the kitchen and I’ve turned ‘what’s for dinner’ over to the almost fourteen-year-old. Scary?  Naw.  I couldn’t be happier.  In fact, I wax so effusive that my family, being the darling dears they are, has thrust this blog in front of me and suggested [...]

I’m typing on the floor of my bathroom because it’s really too early to be up, and I don’t want to wake the house.  On the other hand, I have chocolate-covered almonds beside me. I should be fine. Wednesday we had a lovely, sunny day, and I broke my strictly observed office hours to go [...]

I kept hoping that the super post would be accompanied by some really super-spectacular, save-the-world kind of news…but nothing earth-shattering came up.  On the other hand, no one has attempted to sabotage me with kryptonite of any color, either.  And, hey, absence of kryptonite is a good thing. We are having a super long break, which has [...]

Coming back from our Super Christmas vacation (inside joke which will be shared with my blog readers in the next post), I put up my new calendar(s) for 2011 and realized how much I’m looking forward to this next year.  And not just because 2010 had some really rough spots.  I’m also totally stoked for [...]

I’m almost afraid to blog today because I can’t trust my coherency, but given that it’s been roughly two weeks since a post went up, I figure I’d better reassure the blogosphere that I’m still alive and kicking. It’s even mostly true. Yesterday I celebrated having (finally!) kicked my sinus infection.  It had been a [...]