Tales from the Raven

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 [...]

My body and brain are protesting the new school hours so this is going to be short…but I couldn’t pass up the chance to link to my first publication as Suzanne Warr–gotta love that Z! You can read the The Immortal Horse here, on Every Day Fiction, and be sure to leave a comment!

Today the kids were stung by a jellyfish.  First the R girl started jumping about in the water and yelping, then two seconds later her brother hollered and tried to jump out of the waves.  Somehow I managed to miss it, which I personally have no problem with, though the kids thought it sad I couldn’t brag [...]

We made it safely to our first stop on the road west–the lovely St. Louis.  Yesterday we defied the summer heat and chilled with our black and white feathered friends at the St. Louis zoo, then finished up an evening out with family at the one and only spot for truly divine frozen custard–Ted Drews. A relatively [...]

In the spirit of all writers who are waiting to hear back from agents, I’ve been obsessing over 13 Demon Days.  Specifically, over the first few pages.  I’m confident that if I can just pull the reader in, they’ll like the story.  They’ll laugh, take a couple hits to the heart for the team, and walk [...]

On Sunday evening I was driving to a friend’s house, listening to the thunder and feeling grateful the rain hadn’t hit yet.  Then lightning split the sky–just in front of me and off the road.  It was one of those straight up and down streaks and the tail disappeared in the trees.  I’m a pretty [...]

I haven’t posted much of late, and it’s easy for that to be a self-perpetuating cycle.  It goes something like this:  “I need to post, but since I haven’t posted, a quick post won’t do.  I need to post something really funny/insightful/momentous/amazing, to make it up to my blog readers that I haven’t been posting.  [...]

Today I swapped my daughter’s black Sunday shoes for white sandals and we checked on the status of everyone’s swimwear.  The garden is in, the trees are leafed out, and summer’s just around the corner. I’m excited to dig in to the summer projects we have planned–but rushing to finish up the spring list.  Of [...]

You know what they say about out of the ashes, new life is formed?  Well, sometimes it’s after liberal use of the delete key. Last week I sent the new and improved first chapter of 13 Demon Days to my readers, and waited for feedback.   I was a little nervous because I’ve never been as [...]

If I were the squeeing type, I’d be squeeing over here.  Impossible, you think?  Let me explain. Since I wrote three novels over the last year plus, I’m doing a lot of revising of late.  When I’m writing a novel the first time through, I want everyone to go away, be quiet, leave me alone, and [...]