So, I just joined a very exclusive club – one which I never thought anything I wrote would get anywhere near. People, a county in Florida banned more than a…Continue readingAn exclusive club
At warp speed When I wrote the novel “Spellspam“, the second in my Worldweavers series, I was sure that the playful term which I had invented to describe spam which…Continue readingInvented any words lately?
Photo by Michael Lomza at Ubsplash: Marianne’s Palace, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki, Poland There was a question posted in LiveJournal a few years back: You find yourself in front of seven identical…Continue readingWhich door would you pick?
Children’s Book Week – June 12-16 When books were just books When I was growing up, there was no such thing as “young adult” as a marketing niche. In my…Continue readingJust what is YA?
How Thea Winthrop became the world’s greatest wizard Back in 2002, back when Harry Potter WAS the YA genre – (Number One, and then twenty empty spaces behind it before the…Continue readingGirls can. Girls SHOULD
My first Comic-con: Day 1 My knowledge of the comic-con phenomenon came from the legends of my tribe, the nerds and the geeks and the science fiction and fantasy people…Continue readingThe geeks and the nerds
From Lovereading infographic The Lovereading site explains that they love epic books with swathes of characters creating a wonderfully complex plot, but ask rather plaintively: “Sometimes is it all too…Continue readingToo many characters?
Or wait? It’s an ever-vexing quandary. Should you start a series when the first book is out and then bite your nails as you wait for each new installment? Or…Continue readingRead it now?