Tales from the Raven

In my completely unbiased opinion!  My contributer copy of Extraterrestrial Ruins came today–and who needs tricks or treats after that?
I’m looking forward to reading the other stories included, it will be interesting to see how many ways we could spin the same theme.  I expect a wide range of variation, given how differently my writing [...]

I had scheduled two mid-terms and a final for today, and since I knew most of it was essays I allowed a lot of time.  When I got down there (I drive to a university that proctors my exams) I took the first test with 30 min. to spare.  The next test also finished at [...]

How often can you get a discounted alien these days?  Not a common thing, right?  Well, we’re selling our aliens and extraterrestrial worlds CHEAP, on amazon now!  Get yours before the centaurians, ferooni-sha and galactic collectors of the Senorian Federation buy us out!
 
HINT: Around the halfway point in the anthology there’s an interesting sci fi adventure [...]

Beautiful, lovely, bewitching, charming, winsome rain!  It’s presence has already cancelled two of my plans for the day, but who cares?  I can just feel the dry, thirsty earth soaking it up, the trees and flowers opening their leaves and taking a deep drink.  Because we’re rated as being in an extreme drought, we haven’t even been allowed to [...]

Pat Esden has posted an interview with Ginger Churchill, so you can get all your scabby facts straight.  I’m delighted to report that my copy of the book, Carmen’s Sticky Scab, is coming soon from Amazon.  Can you guess what my five-year-old will be doing this Christmas morning?  Looking for a scab to pick!

Last night was my first ‘writer’ appearance.  It was a career fair for the youth group at our church, so not the most critical of audiences.  Still, I had to tackle a small case of nerves and come out of the shadows were I usually hide my writing aspirations.  I can see it takes a [...]

I wish I had a picture to post with this, but we didn’t quite catch the moment…
Anyway, today at the Renaissance Festival there was a place of ‘vegetable justice’, in which a guy hung his head and hands out of holes in a board wall, as if he was in the stocks.  Then for a [...]

My story of a singing cow (and her not-so-gullible neighbor) is up on Bewildering Stories.  It’s short, funny and free–enjoy!
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On a side note, I looked up the spelling of gullible on dictionary.com, and liked this explanation of its origin:
“1793 (implied in gullibility), earlier cullibility (1728), probably connected to gull, a cant term for “dupe, sucker” (1594), which is [...]

A sometime board rat and engineer, Richard Palmer has come up with a protective substance, called “d3o”, of intelligent molecules that minimize impact.  It reportedly goes from jello-like to tough-guy whenever hit by a direct force.  And it can be a fashion statement, too!

I had understood that my flash story ‘Ghost Spider’ would be in either the Sep. or Oct. issue of AlienSkin, so when I got the check I was delighted and watching for it to go up…but, like most watched pots, this one never boiled.  Perhaps they celebrate a much creepier Christmas than I do, and we’ll see it [...]