[Writer Post] Comfort Zones – Book Shows and Conventions
When you’re a writer, it’s important to take some steps outside your comfort zone. Try a new genre, topic, or length of story, or go to some events that aren’t in your genre. Not only will it stretch you as a writer, you might find some new readers. Genre-specific events are great because the people […]
[Spotlight Post] Marilyn Eudaly – Rising Talent and Birthday Girl
So Friday is spotlight day. And after a week of hectic running around, housecleaning, family birthdays–with one still to go which means I have to keep the house clean until Monday–and it’s a gray, gloomy day before a 3-day weekend. I admit to being a bit at a loss of who or what to spotlight. […]
[Writing Post] Writing, Revision, and SF Signal’s MindMeld
So it’s Wednesday blog time. Whee. While tons of people I know are hie-ing off Chicago for WorldCon or Atlanta for Dragon*Con, I’m prepping for the East Texas Book Fest on the 8th and keeping my head above water for FenCon towards the end of the month. Fortunately I seem to be time managing fairly […]
[Writer Post] Weird Wednesday
This is another weird Wednesday post. I’m deep in the throes of FenCon Prep (because I’m on staff). I have another event in East Texas on September 8th (which I have all my books packed for, because we were pulling FenCon stuff). There are 3, count ’em THREE family birthdays in the next two weeks. […]
[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 […]
[Writer Post] The 3 “R”s of Writing
Writing, revising, and submitting (and resubmitting). These are the foundations of writing professionally. And I’m once more deep in the throes of that. We all should be, but sometimes… yeah, we’ve talked about that quite a bit. So I’ll call these the 3 “R”s of writing. Writing seems obvious, but it’s also easy to balk […]
[Writer Post] ArmadilloCon 34
No one should be surprised that this week’s writer post is a rundown of ArmadilloCon this past weekend. This comes off as one of the more “serious” fan-run SF Conventions in Texas, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. In fact, it’s a blast–and a challenge. And it has some awesome people involved, people I […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] The Dane-Elec ShareBytes 4GB USB Drives
This week’s review isn’t a pen, pencil, or notebook. This week, I’m talking about novelty flash/USB drives. Why? Well, one, I already have pictures taken of them so that’s one less bit of effort. And two, they’re too darned cool. While at a 20% off anything you can get in the bag sale at Staples, […]
[Writer Post] The Perfect Storm of Circumstance
Well, huh. I almost totally forgot to do a writing blog this week. Bad Rhonda. It’s been a “perfect storm” of things this week. There’s helping out my niece with her wisdom teeth-ectomy. She’s doing great so far. And I’m prepping for ArmadilloCon, which I’m really looking forward to. Really, really looking forward to ArmadilloCon […]