DIY Fey Christmas Presents for the Adventurous Gourmet
If elves do the bread-and-dip thing, they’ll use exotic mixes like these for the dip. Buy them or make your own. Read more…
Sweep in Peace is coming
If you enjoy Urban Fantasy with verbal sass and quirky magic, check out the Innkeeper Series. It looks like book 2 is coming soon. Read more…
It’s raining men and Urban Fantasy, halleluja
So much going on: Book 2 of Rule of Thorns almost done and book 1 rewritten. With some mom-yoga-moments thrown in. Read more…
You feel calm and enlightened? Move back in with your family for a while
Elizabeth Gilbert made a short video through Oprah about life lessons. Very funny and good to watch if you have some family-gathering ahead of you ;-) Read more…
Romantic dinner on a flying carpet
Come with me on a romantic evening, straight out of 1001 Nights … or how it could be, if we weren’t living in Doha ;o) Read more…
Character Agency and what else to learn from Dragon Age as a writer
If you love games and fantasy books, read Chuck Wendig’s post: “Dragon Age Inquisition. A writer’s perspective”. Chuck’s current (or maybe all-time) bone to pick is character agency. In this and follow-up posts, he had a lot of very interesting things to say about agency which aren’t just interesting to writers. Also interesting how he takes apart a whole game from a writer’s and a player’s perspective. Also check out his other recent post on character agency, looking at female characters, HOW “STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS” STILL END UP WEAK AND POWERLESS (OR, “DO THEY PASS THE ACTION FIGURE TEST?”). It’s especially Read more…
Fantasy Warrior Workout for beginners
I like kettlebell training and certain yoga poses because they combine into what feels like a Warrior Training. I can just imagine the heroes of my favorite books, all gorgeous hunks of course, doing just this training to look the way they do. Yum. Read more…
Sam Heughan – have you seen this Highlander?
Have you seen Outlander on TV yet? Sam Heughan gave a rare Q&A session on Twitter recently – and there’s a sneak peek at season 2. Read more…
Breathe, life is good!
“Nearly all the women I know are stressing themselves sick over the pathological fear that they simply aren’t doing enough with their lives.” So Elizabeth Gilbert begins a recent article and it echoed in my head long after I read it. Read more…
New Urban Fantasy books 2015
2015 will see the release of several Urban Fantasy projects – and I haven’t even touched on the short story projects that I’d love to contribute to. Read more…
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