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Marvelous Middlegrades: Urchin of the Riding Stars, by M. I. McAllister

19AugustSuzanne1 CommentMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I’ve decided to give the blog a bit of structure, and to kick that off I’ll be spotlighting a middle grade book here every Monday–a marvelous plan, don’t you think?Â I love to read middle grades, and love to share them!Â First up is my beach week read, Urchin of the Riding Stars, first in

The Buzz of a Lightning Strike

14AugustSuzanneExploring (travel), Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writingwriteoncon writing writer lightning gif eastern storm beach

After a long day of WriteOnCon brain-crashing, I remembered that beach vacations involve time on the beach and packed up the towels, bags, and beach toys.Â Only to be met by this– BOOM!!! Yep, a big ol’ eastern storm.Â The kind that makes me want to throw caution to the wind and run for the

How Candy Crush Is a Writing Exercise

6AugustSuzanne7 CommentsJust for Laughs, Writingcandy crush Razzle Dazzle Wipeout fun game writing writer Cube Rhino Ball Jelly Car

My epiphany started with another attempt to go to bedÂ ‘on time’, which is to say earlier than my brain wants to shut up and go to sleep.Â I was attempting to wind the thing down with a few levels of Candy Crush–somewhere in the early 40s levels, I believe it was–and having a challenging time

What Time Is It When…

29JulySuzanne7 CommentsJust for Laughs, The Human Conditionsmashes fence tree on fence joke laugh humor

A tree falls on your fence? No glib answers, now! In your calculations, pleaseÂ take into account that the wind-speed last night was no more than 5-10 mph, although there was up to an inch ofÂ rain. Also, that no one checked the back pasture fence (whereon this tree resides) yesterday, so we have no way of

Thursday’s Children: Plunging Into the Unknown

25JulySuzanne2 CommentsThe Human Condition, Thursday's Children

My friend Pat’s post reminded me of the amazing inspiration dreams can be, and what it takes to live them.Â Which also–in keeping with this week’s theme–takes a little crazy.Â And that made me think of turtles. Let’s see…turtles: Cold,

If you’re wondering who’s behind the alien invasion…

16JulySuzanne2 CommentsNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, The Bookshelface hansen interview green alien gas Julius caesar brown and the green gas mystery ravencroft animals

The Ravencroft animals cornered Ace, a little green alien whose book just came out, and plied him with a few of their questions! Zeke (the dog) How do you say hello on your planet? We stick out our tongues (like in my photo). Personally, I

Killing the Darling Zombie Chicken

9JulySuzanne3 CommentsJust for Laughs, Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers, NinChicksNinchicks christa heschke novel revision zombie chicken edit cabinet of curiousity

I’mÂ doing revisions on NinChicksÂ for Christa (yes, that’s my agent I’m talking about there…and still squeeing over as you can see from this post on the cabinet!) and, ahem, recently cut my whole zombie chicken thread out of the novel. Since it doesn’t play a crucial role in the plot, we decided it was too distracting

Free to be fun

3JulySuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, WritingFourth of July holiday fun fireworks chickens strawberry man writing writer inspiration life

Sounds like a slogan from the sixties, doesn’t it?Â But it’s the freedom I’m feeling most grateful for today. Don’t get me wrong–there are lots of super-serious freedoms I’mÂ thankful for, as well.Â And I know the sacrifices they require, too, as I’ve had servicemen in my family in every generation and almost every war for

I have an agent!

27JuneSuzanne24 CommentsNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

Okay, first the story ’cause why would I hook you in with fantastic news like that and not string you along for a little while?Â After all, you want to experience some of my anticipation with me, don’t you?Â lolÂ Months ago, I participated in the awesome WriteOnCon pitchfest–and discovered all kinds of great ways to

The plague of summer heat, or the peace of summer highlife?

10JuneSuzanne1 CommentHome in the Rookery

I’m naturallyÂ quite contrary.Â I love city life and having the pulse of culture at my fingertips, but live in the country because I can’t survive without its peace.Â I adore travel and wouldn’t consider exploring new cultures without trying their food, but have to be careful and cautious every time I put food in my

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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