Someday, I am going to write a very long thank-you note to Cressida Cowell. For those of you who have…
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Centaurs: NOT Just Party Ponies
Centaurs are seriously misunderstood creatures. Not universally, of course. C. S. Lewis understood them, as he did a great many…
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This Novel Is Brought to You by Griffins
It all started with a griffin. Love. As I mentioned in my recent post Myth Matters, I have a bit…
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Genre-Bending and Other Daring Endeavors
Who here has seen that all too short-lived Nickelodeon classic Avatar: The Last Airbender? I’m not talking about the 2009…
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Home-Work; or, Poetry Strikes Again
Working from home can be a tricky business. Someone asked me the other day how the whole writing thing works…
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On Giant’s Shoulders: The Power of Music in Writing
Music has always been very important to my writing. I finished my first novel, Gatekeeper I: The Finding, in one…
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Myth Matters
I am on a lifelong quest to read everything ever penned by J. R. R. Tolkien. *contented sigh* I’ve read…
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Easy Rhymes and Trashy Romances
Recently, my marketing/business manager (aka The Hubs) did some research on poetry books that are selling well on Amazon. He…
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Story-Baker
Author, Poet, Story-Baker. That’s what it says on my business cards. Behold. If you’ve been kicking around this blog for…
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“Found Tonight” – with poetry
This week, my husband showed me this video of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt doing a glorious mash-up of two…
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