For not-writer stuff
The Ohioana Book Festival this weekend was my first big book event. I had previously attended smaller, local versions for just Cleveland authors at Loganberry Books and the Bay Village Library, and so I thought I knew what I was getting into? Spoiler: I did not know what I was Read more…
Well, first off, it isn’t losing. It’s not. It’s more… not-winning, but that doesn’t make a catchy blog post title. We Americans tend to reduce things like literary awards (and -ugh- political elections) to the binary lens of sports, with “winners” and “losers” and even making it to the Superbowl Read more…
I had to make another appearances post. WEW am I a busy bee! I promise to, er, slow down… if my husband doesn’t get a job? Saturday, June 10th at 2pm I’ll be on a panel at the South Euclid / Lyndhurst public library. With three other female authors of Read more…
This year, for the first time, a convention I hadn’t been to INVITED ME TO COME. And after I said yes, asked if I was okay being a SPECIAL GUEST. This is… amazing. Stuff I never thought would happen! They WANTED ME? The gal with no agent, only small press Read more…
I had determined some years ago, reluctantly, that my SCA years were behind me. I even had an earnest little chat with my knight about if he ought to release me from fealty if I’m no longer fighting. His response was quick. “I’m your knight, and you’re my squire, and Read more…
I was extremely fortunate to be able to squease the fiftieth Pennsic War into my summer schedule. This is the biggest annual convention of the biggest medieval recreation group in the US. Long story short: the midwest fights the upper east coast over ownership of Western Pennsylvania. Or as we Read more…
Part of what drives me, that drives most of us, to science fiction is the desire to explore. To see new places and meet new people. Because some number of people really liked a particular story I wrote, I got to fly halfway around the world to a country I’d Read more…