[Spotlight Post] Songwriting With:Soldiers – via AJ Merrifield
This week’s Spotlight comes from someone I got to know through Rachel Caine and FenCon. AJ Merrifield is an amazing and charming person who came to FenCon to help Rachel Caine and Cat Conrad to staff the Morganville Fan Table. We’ve met him before at a signing, but this weekend, Jimmy and I got to […]
[Spotlight Post] Great Big Sea
My friend, Meredith, is a bad, bad influence – but in a good, good way. She’s introduced me to music I wouldn’t have known to look for… The Piano Guys being one… Great Big Sea being another one. Tartanic I found on my own… [asa]B001WC0D1G[/asa] But… Great Big Sea… dude, check them out. Especially if […]
[Spotlight Post] Tartanic
This week’s spotlight is on a band I never even considered listening to before two weeks ago – Tartanic. I haven’t met them yet, but they suffered a tragic loss this past weekend and our hearts and prayers go out to them. Tartanic is a bagpipe and drum band. Yes…you read that correctly. Pipe and […]
[Spotlight Post] The Piano Guys
I almost didn’t do today’s spotlight post. I’ve been meaning to do a technology rant. That might be next Wednesday. Mostly because it’s making me grit my teeth thinking about it, and I really need to get it out of my system before too long. I kinda talked about ConDFW last Friday. And I thought […]
[Spotlight Post] Kasey Lansdale – Musican, Actor, Editor, and More
This week’s spotlight, Kasey Lansdale…one of the hardest working, most versatile young women I know. But that’s because her mom and dad raised her to be enterprising. For those of you who are horror readers (or fans of “Texas Weird”) and having been around the SF convention circuit, you’ve seen Kasey. She’s Joe R. Lansdale’s […]
[Spotlight Post] Queen Anne’s Lace
This weekend heralds the final weekend of the Scarborough Renaissance Festival. In honor of this, I’m featuring one of the staple acts–Queen Anne’s Lace. Queen Anne’s Lace (QAL) is a female a Capella singing group that not only has tight vocal harmonies, but also great humor and bigger hearts. And in the last weekend of […]
[Spotlight Post] Stewart Copeland
Last month (April) I indulged myself by taking a Friday afternoon “off” and trekking into Dallas to the SMU campus for the end of Stewart Copeland’s 3-day music residency. Copeland indulged students, faculty, and general public fans (like me and many others) in an almost 2-hour Interview/Q&A session. For those who aren’t as familiar with […]
[Writer Post] Holiay MishMash
There’s a lot going on right now, so we’ll call this one the Holiday Mish-Mash. The newest Amazon debate/debacle – I know a lot of authors feel Amazon is their Last, Best Hope as either self-published or independent publishers. It may be. But there are also a lot of things to beware of. Go into […]
[Writing Post] Question for Writers and Readers
When you’re reading books that contain music or poetry as a major element – do you like having song lyrics in there or do you skip over them? Do they add to the experience or take away? Really need to know this. Please weigh in! I need your input!