Tales from the Raven

This story just blows me away.  I generally try to stay clear of ‘current events’, esp. of a potentially political nature, but the idiocy of this is just too incredible.
If the kid’s dirt bike was illegal, why didn’t they take it up with the owner/his parents?  A seven-year old didn’t procure a dirt bike on [...]

I make no pretense about it–I want my writing to sell.  I am not ‘just writing for myself’, nor do I have pretensions of undying prose passed down through the ages.
I do write from my heart, mind and soul.  I of course hope that what I write will have lasting impact and value, but it [...]

I found this link to a watery resort 1200 square feet under the sea while avoiding my math this morning.  If they pull this off, bubble structures out in space sound just a little closer–which of course sets my writerly brain parts to humming.
Managed/Owned by Bruce Jones, each room is expected to go at roughly $15,000-per-person, per-week.  The [...]

I’ve always loved fire.  When I was a child, clambering over the Rocky Mountains, we understood that fire was dangerous, and our parents drilled us in fire safety.  But we also understood that, should we get lost, fire was our best friend.  We had contests, from a relatively young age, starting ‘one-match’ fires in the shortest [...]

I sent my dragon story, Warrior’s Flame, off to Realms of Fantasy today.  This is a story I worked on for a long time, and was a quarter-finalist at WOTF.  Since then I’ve trimmed some 3,000+ words.
Very difficult, that.  Not only were there many ‘darling’ sentences, but two favorite characters had to go, and numerable funny and/or [...]

What is the point of daylight savings again?  And since when is daylight something we can ’save’ up?  Here’s a link to a Slate report on what’s behind the clock changes.  Daylight savings is supposed to get us up with the sun so we’ll use less energy, but there doesn’t seem to be much evidence to [...]

Now that I’m a bestselling author, with 16 book tours behind me, I thought I’d pass out a few words of wisdom.
Err, yeah.
But I did find a great outline of how to have a successful book signing for those of you who do have this on your mind, and hey, no harm in looking to [...]

10 - It’s the one food I know that kids from 1 to 99 will all eat.
9 - Cheese has calcium.  Calcium is good for you.
8 - If it’s frozen and you’re bored, you can use it as a frisbee.
7 - You can put different toppings on different portions to stop any whining.
6 - If you say the magic words, “Pizza’s Ready!”, [...]

Last week, before our trip, I got Icarus ready to go to Trabuco Road.  They reopened their submissions on March 3rd, or there abouts, so my plan was to be ready and submit as soon as they opened.  But with issues stacked on excuses, I didn’t sit down to send it ’til last night.
It was all ready, [...]

I’ve noticed something.  I have a tendency to ignore small, nuisance problems with more studious avoidance the longer they’ve been bugging me.
Bigger problems are okay.  I guess my psych knows they won’t just disappear, no matter how fine the sand in which I bury my head.
But the little things–fixing some online error which isn’t pressing [...]