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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Dragons Lure w/misty

David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

This is not a zero-sum game.

I have a much better blog post about craft and stuff that I’ll post on Tuesday, but today, in an attempt to make up for having missed the last couple weeks (I was offline both Tuesdays and utterly forgot to prepare something to automagically post), I am going to rant.

A week or two ago George [...]

Knowing What You Write

When I was in high school, I wrote a short story about a catlike alien soldier whose ship crash-landed on a planet under the control of her enemies.  She reported her position, but her people ordered her to make her way to a less dangerous spot for retrieval.  Along the way, she found a wounded [...]

The Drainage Ditch of Writing

David had a tough week, last week. Hugs, David. It’s been a difficult time for me too, though not as bad as David’s, and for totally different reasons. No one died, no one came through a deadly event and miraculously lived. Unlike David, I’ve never lost a close loved one, except grandparents, and some of [...]

Tragedy and the Writer

It’s been quite a week here in our little town.  We’ve been dealing with the aftermath of events great and terrible, events that have nothing at all to do with writing, but have had a profound impact on me as a writer.  What follows is entirely true, save for the names.

Tragedy Averted:  Wednesday was a [...]

We have a winner!

It was a hard fight, and we had some amazing entries.  You guys are great!  Alas, there could be only one winner.  We employed the age-old, highly respectable method favored by kings and generals for centuries….we put all the names in the hat and had a completely unbiased child draw one out.  And the winner [...]

Loving those men of mine

I have fallen in love.

My husband knows about it, and fortunately doesn’t mind. I do this on an alarmingly regular basis. I meet someone, get to know him and then fall so hard that for a while I can’t think of anything else. The feeling tends to ease off after a few [...]