• Female Leads in Science Fiction Novels

    In a discussion with book reviewer Shaun Duke on Twitter, he made an interesting comment. He said that he couldn’t think of any lead female characters in Science Fiction books. When I tried to respond right away I realized all the books that were coming to my mind were more Fantasy or Speculative than true [...]

  • World Building with a Magic 8 Ball

    So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7). But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time. I [...]

  • Chinese Whisperings Promo

    Just wanted to give you all a quick update on the the anthology that holds my 5th published short story. It was going to be released on December 1 2009, but due to unforeseen events and deadlines the release date has been pushed back to January 1 2009. I’d rather the editors and owners do [...]

  • The 4 Year Plan

    4 years ago, on August 23 2006, I started blogging. It was a way of telling the universe that I was committed to writing – for real this time. I started on blogger, and you can read from the beginning up until August 2008 (when I moved to WordPress) @ http://dustandstrangerthings.blogspot.com/ – but only until [...]

  • 10 Research Resources for Fiction Writers

    Research for fiction writers seems to be coming up a lot lately. Whether you look at Write Anything’s recent guest post by Justyn Rowe, or Krista D. Ball’s series called ‘A Nibble of History’ people are talking about it… and the general feeling I’m getting is that a lot writers aren’t doing it properly. I [...]

 

 

Sinful Flash Fiction Challenge – Lust

Thursday, January 8, 2009    View Comments

So a few days ago I mentioned the Sinful Flash Fiction Challenge. With only 7 days left until the deadline I felt like I was running out of time so last night I stayed up a pounded out my first piece. I’d love to hear your feedback and maybe read some of your flash fiction [...]

2008 in Review

Monday, January 5, 2009    View Comments

Well, here we go. My year in review. Projects Started/ Finished: January of 2008 I started a no-plot-project. It was a way for me to let go of my obsessive need to plot out every detail of a story before I wrote it. This project is now called “Ice Debt” and as much as I [...]

New Year Count Down

Monday, December 29, 2008    View Comments

I won’t do my year in review just yet but I wanted to post and say hello before, just in case I don’t get to it before the year is out. My word count is abysmal – horrible really – so I won’t post it until I have something good to report. I have received [...]

Money Found in Cracker Box

Sunday, December 28, 2008    View Comments

Here’s another strange story for you, according to http://www.cbcnews.com. “The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it _ an envelope stuffed with $10,000. Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter’s find. After all, who would leave money in such a place? “We [...]

Happy Holidays

Wednesday, December 24, 2008    View Comments

Well it’s finally done. The tree is up and decorated. The presents are wrapped and under the tree. Nothing like waiting until the last possible moment, huh? I hope you are as prepared for the festivities over the next coming days. As a child from a split home I have two dinners just on my [...]

Story Ideas from the News

Thursday, December 18, 2008    View Comments

I saw the most interesting article today. It was a very short article that said, last night a woman fell three stories from her apartment balcony and survived with minor injuries. The interesting part? She was naked. There was a man waiting for the bus outside the apartment she lives in and was shocked to [...]



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      February 3, 2010
      Chinese Whisperings are 10 stories about 10 different people. The twist in this collection is that each new story takes a minor character from the story before and makes him or her into the main character. The whole thing works extremely well. It is not a novel in chapters, and therefore slightly disconcerting when you meet the person or persons from the story before in a completely different setting. But it works wonderfully.”
      by Heike Margot Heike Margot's Blog The Red Book

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