Tales from the Raven

Well, first it was one thing, than it was another…I could make this a very long post,  but the bite-size point is that after much outlining and considering, I’ve decided that my Yan stories will stay within the short realm for the time being, so no novel will be forthcoming from that direction, while at [...]

Sadly, I did not get photos.  You will all have to stretch your imagination tall and long in order to wrap it around the mental image of a 24 foot uhaul–backed into my driveway.
Now, if said Uhaul had been mine, that would be alright.  If it had belonged to a sister, cousin, or neighbor, I’d [...]

Fist of the Black Bird has been posted as an Honorable Mention in this year’s third quarter of The Writers of the Future Contest.  It comes as no great surprise, considering the story’s weak fantasy element.  And, at the least, the contest has once again provided me with the impetus to write and make presentable a story [...]

I know this is a Yahoo article, which would mean in the usual course that it was too public for me to blog.  Why blog something everyone’s already seen?  But this particular topic has been a pet peeve of mine for long enough that I find myself unable to resist the urge to pull it [...]

Yeah, I’m back!  Hello everyone!
You may not have missed me, but I’ve been in withdrawal.  We moved over a week ago, and other than one short moment of nauseatingly-slow dial-up internet, I’ve been entirely unplugged.  No emails.  No blogging.  No feedback on writing.  No chatting with online friends.
It was an electronic wasteland.
The amusing part is, one of [...]