Best Werewolf Movies
Friday, August 03, 2007
What are your favorite Werewolf movies? It's the topic of the day over at
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Blogging at Beyond the Veil
Friday, July 20, 2007
Today's post is about
Basque mythology. Kinda quirky, but it was interesting to research.
Also, I think I'm finally regaining feeling in the two toes that went completely numb during conference.
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Two Things
Sunday, July 08, 2007
First, I had a blog post up last Friday at Beyond the Veil on the
Gods of Central America. Check it out!
Second, I'm back! From South Carolina, at least. It was a long trip and we really only got to spend about 8 hours with our friends, but it was worth it. Even though I hate road trips. I read a lot.
I finished
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint.
I think...it's very Canadian. In such a way that although I can appreciate the beauty of the stories, many of them don't really resonate with me. I think Americans, in our innocent arrogance, don't realize that Canadians are NOT just like us, only colder.
There were stories that I liked. I think that my favorites were, unsurprisingly, the ones with distinct plots. The ones where things happened. Where there was a goal to be reached.
Wild Horses and
China Doll. Those were also stories that weren't necessarily part of the web he created in the anthology. No connecting characters (ok, there was one in
Wild Horses, but on the periphery.)
I suppose that proves something about my writing as well. I'm plot-driven. I don't handle navel-gazing too well. I'm impatient with a lot of stories that people tend to call "beautifully crafted." I can see the craft, I can appreciate the beauty, but I want something to happen.
I also finally read
Wicked by Gregory Maguire. It was one huge "meh." Depressing, preachy and superficial. I never could bring myself to care about any of the characters because he kept
telling me about them, but he never
showed me. The POV was shallow all the way through the book. As for Elphaba, I don't have to like the main character, necessarily, but I need to care. I didn't.
And I read
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine, the first in the Weather Warden series. It's a lot like
the Dresden Files, except for she's a chick. Overall, I'm not upset that I bought it, but I probably won't be picking up the rest of them.
I wrote maybe a hundred new words on Wild Wild Western Bride, but I really still need to do some more research on my setting. Next week.
Tonight -- the laundry!!!
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A-Muse Me!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Blogging today at
Beyond the Veil about
Muses.Come tell me about your Muse!
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Something Blue
My Critique Partner, Babe King, has a new release through By Grace Publishing. Go check it out! Babe is clever and witty and quick -- a real joy to read!
SOMETHING BLUE is now on sale !!!
at Lulu 
Pastor Nathan awaits his version of Gideon’s fleece before asking his childhood love, Petra, to marry him. But a self-righteous businessman, savior of their village, asks her first! It’ll take an ugly town fountain, homicidal high heels and an irate Irishman to prove God really does work in mysterious ways.
Paperback book $11.74
Download $4.69
And to celebrate Babe is running a contest! Go see
her blog to find out what a bilby is!
~Babe writing as Lyndell King (with halo almost attached!)~
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