Once again I’m to the point in my current class that I’d really rather do anything but the assignment in front of me. I’m glad I’ve learned not to rant all day about it, but waiting until the end of the day to produce my required pages is really getting old. I may have had … What I Need to Know
I’m jumping in to this round of ROW80 a month late, because I finally decided to participate in the A-Z Challenge–and really didn’t want to post something to my blog seven days a week. Surprisingly enough… I completed that challenge, and therefore the first goal I had for this round. 🙂 My second goal is, … Beginning Again
I delayed a long time this year before finally committing to the challenge–mostly because now I’m in school, and I’m having a hard enough time finding time to write fiction, I wasn’t sure I was up to the challenge of daily blogging. Somehow, I managed. I think it had to do with guilt: I wasn’t … Thinking and Follow-up #AtoZChallenge
I’ve made it to the end of another A-Z challenge–despite crazy MBA classes and four weekends’ worth of overtime at work. It’s shocking me a little, to be honest… so I thought I’d share the shock Anne experienced the first time she saw her new ghilen friend Shr-Zen hover on the verge of shifting back … #AtoZChallenge – Z is for Shr Zen
Since book two of Red Slaves brings in the Chinese angle on dragons, I thought it would be appropriate to comment on a Chinese word: Yi Ding means “certain” in the sense of “fixed, given, particular, or necessarily.” It’s the trap Anne falls into: She considers herself well-educated and firmly grounded in reality. So when … #AtoZChallenge – Y is for Yi Ding
This was another tough letter, until I realized one of the things Anne resents the most in Blood to Fire is her forced expat status. The book opens, in fact, with the revelation that she’s all but sequestered herself in a passive-aggressive rebellion against what she views as her entrapment in the Russian Federation. She … #AtoZChallenge – X is for Expatriate
Carla and I have counted, coordinated, and confirmed, and we have an official list of winners from the Rafflecopter that went along with my recent virtual book tour. 🙂 $25 Amazon Gift Card Beth Gallinger 5 Sets Autographed Paperbacks Amber Hall Beth Haney Mary Preston Tes Halim Tina Connor Myers 10 Sets eBooks … #AtoZChallenge – W is for Winners
As we’re getting to the end of the alphabet, I find it interesting that chapter 1 of Blood to Fire is titled “Visit”… So you get an excerpt today–the first few paragraphs of book two of the Red Slaves trilogy: There’s an annoying twinge intruding on my consciousness; I’m happy, tucked away in my stone … #AtoZChallenge – V is for Visit
I really struggled coming up with another U for this year’s Red Slaves theme… then I thought about all the things Anne does not want. Prime among them was the relationship and transformation she ended up with–but there was a deeper meaning to the unwanted theme, too. And… I won’t share it for its spoiler-tude. … #AtoZChallenge – U is for Unwanted
I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to write about for T, but then figured the dislocation of travel was enough of a theme in my Red Slaves series to warrant comment. The superficial dislocation we feel when faced with a new location is but the most obvious of the changes we face. When, as … #AtoZChallenge – T is for Travel
