Are you extraordinary?

July 21, 201215 Comments

Photo by Kay Kauffman

We can be the heroes and heroines in our own lives. We can set out upon a quest. We can write our own stories, and within those tales, discover something extraordinary. We can have an extraordinary life. -Tricia Drammeh

I read that about an hour ago and was inspired. This post almost didn’t get published today, but I’ve still got ten more minutes to go before the weekend is officially here and I think I can make it! Anyway, Tricia is a wonderful lady and I highly recommend visiting her blog, where you can find the rest of the post that I quoted above.

Anyway, it’s late, I’m tired, I’ve got boatloads of work to do, and I’ve recently become addicted to Pottermore. If you’re there, let’s be friends! I’m SkyKey6037 and just got sorted into Hufflepuff tonight, so that was pretty cool, although I have to admit I was hoping for either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. Oh, well.

And now, to the writing cave! Happy weekend, y’all!

Tinker, tenor, author, spy

June 22, 20122 Comments

Okay, so that was a rather poor Star Trek reference, but it made me smile. (I can’t help it; I love the Doctor. :)) Anyway, my good friend Lindsey Parsons has published her first novel, Vortex, and you can find it on both Amazon and Amazon UK.

On a night when prophecies stir, an outraged dragon vents his anger, Damian is ripped from everything he knows and Sam’s nightmares become real…

Sam isn’t enjoying university life, she’s disillusioned with her course and having second thoughts about her future. It doesn’t help that she keeps having a scary recurring nightmare and when she thinks things couldn’t get worse, a creepy man follows her back to her room.

Damian is unique, he has silver eyes, horns, and wings, he is also being visited by a ghost girl. She looks so sad and frightened he feels compelled to help her, but the night he reaches out to save her from a dragon’s fiery breath he gets ripped from his life, his world, from everything he knows.

Now it’s Damian who’s lost in an unfamiliar world that’s devoid of magic and full of strange monsters. His only connection with home is Sam, who he recognizes as the ghost girl. Sam has to put aside her fear and disbelief in Damian’s explanations about himself to try and help him find his way home. But in a world without magic is this possible?

To learn more about Lindsey, click here to read her recent interview with Tricia Drammeh and here to read her interview with Kate Jack. Help support this great author!

May the Force be with you, Mr. Bradbury

June 7, 2012June 7, 2012Leave a comment

In case you live under a rock and haven’t yet heard, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi author extraordinaire, has passed away at the age of 91. Unless, of course, you subscribe to the following theory:

Ray Bradbury has not died. He has dissipated and become one with the Force.

— Literary Agent Vader (@AgentVader) June 6, 2012

I thought that was pretty darn fantastic myself.

All you need is love

June 4, 20127 Comments

Today, I’m feeling the love. And for some reason, as I was thinking the words, “Feel the love,” I heard them in Peter Griffin’s voice. You know, from the episode where he spends time with Meg? No? Okay, fine:

I haven’t watched Family Guy in years, so I have no idea why that particular scene popped into my head this morning, but you can’t unsee it! Muahahaaaa! 🙂

Anyway, I wanted to share a bit of blog love today. And, you know, make up for the clip I just shared. 🙂

Interviewed once more!

May 19, 2012July 26, 2012Leave a comment

The questions have been flying once again. Yep, folks, that’s right – I’ve been interviewed! All thanks go to Tricia Drammeh this time (again, actually). Head on over to her Authors to Watch site and join the conversation!

Big things are going on in my neck of the woods, but that’s another post for another time. In the meantime, I’ll be starting a Photo Friday feature this coming week. I meant to start it yesterday, but housework beckoned and I’m pretty sure Seymour was ecstatic that I heeded the call to clean instead of the call to blog. 🙂

And now, back to Mt. Laundry. I’ve nearly reached the summit – I can’t stop now!

Authors to Watch and more (suddenlytheyalldied.com)
Escapism at its best! (sophieetallis.wordpress.com)
YA Author Spotlight interviews Will Macmillan Jones and the Mystic Accountants (safkhetpublishing.wordpress.com)

Authors to Watch and more

March 22, 2012July 26, 20125 Comments

Ah, authors to watch. There must be a jillion of them. I, however, am referring to ten certain authors who were featured yesterday in an interview by Tricia Drammeh. She asked the question, “Why do you write fantasy?” and received some great answers from some great authors, including yours truly (although I make no claims as to my greatness). Check it out! Each interviewee provided links to a variety of sites at which you can check out their work and/or learn more about them.

In other news, rumor has it that the release of Promises, the second Timeless Series novel, will be delayed. Fans of Lisa Wiedmeier’s fantasy series will now have to wait till the end of May to continue following Cheyenne’s adventures.

I’ve almost finished the Kindle version of Tuesday Daydreams. Learning the formatting stuff was easy enough for the most part, but I still have a couple of glitches to work out here and there. I hope to have the Kindle version available for purchase by the end of the week (by which I mean the end of the calendar week, not tomorrow). I had Chinese for lunch today and ate my fortune cookie on the way back to work. I had to chuckle as I read my fortune:Channel your energy into something positive. I’d say all this work on my writing is definitely something positive. 🙂

Last but not least, the rain has come at long last and everything is turning a lovely shade of green. I adore spring. ♥

Young Adult Author Spotlight interviews Will MacMillan Jones and the Banned Underground (safkhetpublishing.wordpress.com)
Save the Hobbit and other odds and ends (suddenlytheyalldied.com)

I’ve been interviewed!

February 7, 2012July 26, 2012Leave a comment

That’s right, I’ve been interviewed again! This time the Grand Inquisitor was none other than the Alliance’s resident Lady Midnight Marauder, Katrina Anne Jack. You can read the interview over at her blog. Meanwhile, be sure to check out her book, The Land of Midnight Days!

In other news, the editing continues. I’ve finished revising the first fourth of the book and am ready to get cracking on the rest of it. Now if only I could find some spare time in the evenings! There just aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I need to get done as well as everything I want to get done. Oh, if only needs and wants were always the same!