A Scabby Interview

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers

Pat Esden has posted an interview with Ginger Churchill, so you can get all your scabby facts straight.  I’m delighted to report that my copy of the book, Carmen’s Sticky Scab, is coming soon from Amazon.  Can you guess what my five-year-old will be doing this Christmas morning?  Looking for a scab to pick!

Posing as a Writer

Home in the Rookery, Writing

Last night was my first ‘writer’ appearance.  It was a career fair for the youth group at our church, so not the most critical of audiences.  Still, I had to tackle a small case of nerves and come out of the shadows were I usually hide my writing aspirations.  I can see it takes a

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Bovine Aspirations Debut

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

My story of a singing cow (and her not-so-gullible neighbor) is up on Bewildering Stories.  It’s short, funny and free–enjoy! — On a side note, I looked up the spelling of gullible on dictionary.com, and liked this explanation of its origin: “1793 (implied in gullibility), earlier cullibility (1728), probably connected to gull, a cant term for “dupe, sucker”

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Orange Armor

Speculative Science

A sometime board rat and engineer, Richard Palmer has come up with a protective substance, called “d3o”, of intelligent molecules that minimize impact.  It reportedly goes from jello-like to tough-guy whenever hit by a direct force.  And it can be a fashion statement, too!

Getting Paid to Wait

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I had understood that my flash story ‘Ghost Spider’ would be in either the Sep. or Oct. issue of AlienSkin, so when I got the check I was delighted and watching for it to go up…but, like most watched pots, this one never boiled.  Perhaps they celebrate a much creepier Christmas than I do, and we’ll see it

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The Mommy Van

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

Mothers can tell you that this ‘Mom my Ride!’ clip only goes halfway…they don’t even have stickers on the windows! [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HEFE3B0Rje0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

Bird-killing Rats

Writing

Tonight we discussed my latest story in the writer’s group.  The guys had some great suggestions, and pointed out that one problem with the story was that, as it stands, they were tempted to root for the despised ratmen rather than the Raven, assasin, protagonist. Uh, hmmm.  Have to fix that. They also brought up

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The Dreaded Call

Home in the Rookery

As I was cramming my way throught my textbooks today I got the call that every parent most fears: “Hi, this is you son’s school calling, how are you?” “Great, great.” (can you get to the point?) “Okay, well, your son hurt his foot today…apparently he was kicking a wall at recess.” “Hmm, oh dear.” (kicking

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