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2024: Year of Process
This is also somewhat a retrospective of 2023’s Year of Small Things. I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I am not sure I even really believe in goals anymore. I know Linda Maye Adams, a good friend of mine, does NOT do goals at all. I follow a method of Yearly Themes I learned from…
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My MarsCon Schedule
Friday, Jan 12 5pm: Authors Just Talk About Their PetsSaturday, Jan 13 4pm: The Trick to Creating Believable Magic SystemsSaturday, Jan 13 6pm: Whispering Woods: Fairy Tales and Modern SocietySunday Jan 14 11am: How Fears Shape SuperstitionsSunday Jan 14 1pm: Sword and Sorcery
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Marscon (Jan. 12-14, 2024)
Hey all! I’ll be at Marscon in January there in Virginia Beach, VA. I don’t know my panel schedule yet but I will post it as soon as I have it. This will be my first Marscon but I look forward to the vast amount of gaming they have, as well as the other programming.…
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Vegas, Baby!
I will be in Vegas November 4-11 for the 20Booksto50K conference! This is a big conference held yearly (well…more on that in a moment) for independent, hybrid, and traditionally published authors that focuses on the business end of the author business. In 2024, however, the wonderful Craig Martelle is stepping down from running it and…
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Andor: 3 Ways to do a Prequel Right
Hollywood is in love with prequels right now. Sometimes they work…and man, sometimes they don’t. I think Star Wars: Andor gets it right. It’s engaging, layered, and shows many sides of both the Empire and the Rebellion. Now it is a prequel, and with that comes great risks in storytelling that I don’t think often…
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My Yearly Theme for 2023: Small Things
Instead of New Year’s resolutions or regular goal setting, for the past few years I’ve been doing Yearly Themes instead. A yearly theme is more of a state of mind than a goal. You identify not just what you want to accomplish, but the mindset around how to get there. In this way, you can’t…
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Caly: The Epic Saga Begins
Caly came to us on a very windy day in March of 2018. A former racing hound, she’d retired after a middling career to a foster home with Paws on the Mountain adoption group. We met her in a Petsmart. She was quiet, reserved, didn’t fuss about anything…boy, did she have us fooled! (It’s all…
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Introducing the Important Folks: the Dogs
Caly and Sior are pretending they listen to me in this picture. Because while I adore them both, they rarely do. They are affectionately known as the Diva and the Brat around these parts. More details to come on who they are and what they get up to!