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Storm’s Rising and New Venture

14NovemberSuzanneNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

My flash story Storm’s Rising is up at EDF.Â I’ll look forward to chatting with all of youÂ in the comments section. Soon I hope to disclose the guidelines for a new venture I’ll be a part of–just as soon as we can stop arguing, err,Â ‘discussing’Â those guidelines and make it all official.Â I’m very excited.

Money’s Memory

10NovemberSuzanneFolklore and Myth, Home in the Rookery

We attended a stamp and coin show at the fairgrounds today and I was thrilled to pick up some nice specimens of ancient Chinese cash, mostly from the Southern Sung.Â Of course I wanted to bring it all home, but theÂ coins I picked were pretty cool, though not of any high monetary value. One of

Oops!

9NovemberSuzanneWriting

If you saw that last post, blink quickly!Â That was my entire submission history, and intended to be posted as private.Â I must not have gotten the hang of these silly options just yet. 😛 Don’t worry.Â It’s gone, so you can open your eyes and look at a world still un-scarred by the submission

An Editor’s Take on the Cover Letter

9NovemberSuzanneWriting

Some weeks agoÂ I attended a writing get together where James was guesting, and picked up some interesting points which I’m now putting into place with my latest batch ofÂ story submissions. The other guest was an assistant editor with Baen, and in our discussion he convinced me that I may have been too stingy in my

Random Facts of Absolutely No Consequence

5NovemberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Today while shelling boiled eggs my karmaÂ crossed that of a particularly troubled shell–the tiny jagged edge jabbed into my skin and drew blood.Â Of course, perhaps I’ve got it all wrong and thisÂ signifies my initiation into theÂ brotherhood of chickens. The ferrets have dug their way under our attic door, removing the troublesome carpet and pad

My First Comet

2NovemberSuzanneFolklore and Myth, Speculative Science

Tonight we put on our jackets and went shivering out into the cold toÂ peer at the sky and glimpse our first comet.Â Of course, even with binoculars, it still looked more like a tiny splat of pea soup than a comet, or maybe a place where someone had smudged the erasor of their pencil across

A Lovely amd Promising Collection

31OctoberSuzanneNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

In my completely unbiased opinion!Â My contributer copy of Extraterrestrial Ruins came today–and who needs tricks or treats after that? I’m looking forward to reading the other stories included, it will be interesting to see how many ways we could spin the same theme.Â I expect a wide range of variation, given how differently my

Professional Test-Takers

29OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

I had scheduled two mid-terms and a final for today, and since I knew most of it was essays I allowed a lot of time.Â When I got down there (I drive to a university that proctors my exams) I took the first test with 30 min. to spare.Â The next test also finished at

Extraterrestrial on Sale!

26OctoberSuzanne2 CommentsNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

How often can you get a discounted alien these days?Â Not a common thing, right?Â Well, we’re selling our aliens and extraterrestrial worlds CHEAP, on amazon now!Â Get yours before the centaurians, ferooni-sha and galacticÂ collectors of the Senorian Federation buy us out! Â HINT: Around the halfway point in the anthology there’s an interesting sci

Rain!!

24OctoberSuzanneHome in the Rookery

Beautiful, lovely, bewitching, charming, winsome rain!Â It’s presence has already cancelled twoÂ of my plans for the day, but who cares?Â Â I can just feel the dry, thirsty earth soaking it up, the trees and flowers opening their leavesÂ and taking a deep drink.Â Â Because we’re rated as being in an extreme drought, we haven’t even been allowed to

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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