Tales from the Raven

Have you noticed how often in books (especially serial style ‘B’ books) the characters doesn’t know where they are when they wake up?  It seems like it crops up a lot, probably as a gimmick of the writer to bring the reader back into the picture, I’m guessing.  But how often in real life do [...]

10 - Your darling might buy you something pink and sweet.
9 - You have a chance to revisit the weight you worked off since Christmas.
8 - You have a wider selection of cheap chocolate than any other time of the year.
7 - If you’re really lucky and really charming, you might get a heart pillow or a stuffed monkey.
6 - You can eat candy [...]

Issret raised her head and pointed her ears down the hall.  Dust motes drifted in the sunlight which picked out the faded colors of the tapestries.
Nothing stirred.
Issret lay her head on a pillow of spun silver.  Her eyes were slits of gold.  Her body was still on her hoard.
Her ears caught a tiny sound, no more than the [...]

Everywhere I look there are writing classes offered . . . where’s the one in geography?  In my world creation I try to ‘grow’ a people as naturally as possible, paying careful attention to what their language illustrates about them and allowing for the influence that the terrain would have upon them.
For intsance, it is [...]

The Ghost Spider has been sent spinning out of Shadowed Realms.  The editor, Angela Challis, was reasonably positive though, which is always nice.
I’ve also discovered the up side to recieving a growing number of rejection letters–they start to lose their sting.  I know I’m not the first writer (or the last) to discover this, but it’s [...]

10 – You’ve already had the Nora Virus this year so you’ll pass on the bug riding in seat 7C.
9 – You’ve heard there’s lots of space in the middle of the country and you want to see if it’s true.
8 – You recently found your long-lost music collection from college.
7 – Last time you flew it took [...]

According to my blog stats this is my two hundredth blog–either that or my two hundredth and tenth, it doesn’t seem sure which.
At any rate, I thought two hundred deserved some kind of notice.  Apparently I passed up one hundred without noting it flying by.  A good omen, that. 
So here’s to the blogging world in [...]