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The Writing Life: Interruptions 27 Aug 2013 | 11:44 am
When I first started writing, way back in fourth grade, I worked on one story at a time. It never occurred to me that it was possible to have multiple writing projects in different stages. As I got ol...
Author Interview: Brenda W. Clough 26 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Brenda W. Clough Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Writer Brenda W. Clough has stitched together an exotic quilt of a career and a life. She’s written classic fantasy, fantasy humor, fantasy ...
Story Inspiration Sunday 25 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
It isn’t just pictures or poetry or the critters who share my yard that inspire me. It’s also music. Like many writers, I can’t listen to music with words while I’m writing. I need pure sound, that ...
The Darcy Chronicles 8: Hormone Avalanche and Second Thoughts 24 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
In his 14th week of life, Darcy began his transition to adolescence. By contrast with a human toddler, everything will happen at once. The next two months may be quite interesting; the next week may b...
My First Computer – Vic 20 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
My First Computer: Vic 20 by Commodore by Phyllis Irene Radford More years ago than I like to think about, my son was in 3rd grade and his school just received a grant to buy 3 computers for the ent...
This is Why I Love Vonnegut 23 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
From Bluebeard: “A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him o...
Book View Café Signs Deal with Audible 22 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Yup. BVC is moving into a whole new dimension, flying at a brand new altitude. We’re going audio. A lot of our titles will now be heard in addition to being read. Here’s the announcement we sent out y...
Camping in the Middle of Somewhere 22 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
San Francisco Bay is dotted with islands. One of them, Angel Island, is a state park with camping facilities. The only way to reach Angel Island is by ferry and the campsites are a mile or more hike f...
WWW Wednesday 8-21-2013 21 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
It’s WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. • What did you recently finish reading? I’m not the only one around who’s been rereading their way through my old mate Iain Banks’ oeuvre. Sudd...
High summer outside Chicago 21 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
wild grapes There’s plenty more summer on the calendar, but this is probably the peak of high summer outside Chicago. Rich and I walked in Wright Woods and saw some classic local and invasive plants ...
