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A Not-So-Snarkly Goodbye

21MaySuzanneNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers

I had hopes that we’d get a couple more posts out of her, but apparently not.Â Miss Snark has said goodbye and posted her last post.Â Let us all pause for a moment of snarkly fury that she hasÂ so cruelly bailed on us. Â I still had questions.Â We all begged her to stay…but at

Lloyd Alexander

21MaySuzanneNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers

I’m weighing in a bit late, but couldn’t let it go without aÂ note. Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, among other books, died on May 17th 2007.Â The Washington Post carried a tribute to him in their obituaries.Â I particularly enjoyed this quote printed therein: “I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized

With My Eyes Wide Open

21MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery

I’m wearing contacts! After seven years of dry eyes problems which denied me contacts, I’m finally able to wear them again.Â No moreÂ looking at the world throughÂ smudge-tintedÂ glasses, squinting into the sun, and rubbing at the pinch places on my face every night. Now, instead, I can blink and blink ’cause the silly contact’s folded, lose

The Science Answer to Fiction

18MaySuzanneSpeculative Science

Once again a science fiction author, in this case Stanislaw Lem among possible others, has correctly anticipated a trend inÂ science. You can see a short article on the subjectÂ at Technovelgy, or go directly to the Fabrican Ltd site to peruse theÂ spray-on wardrobe in your future.

Dinner, Dinner, Dinner…

18MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery

I know what’s for dinner.Â Chebes!Â My double shipment just came, so I have plenty…for now.Â This tasty little Brazilian cheese breadÂ neverÂ lasts as long as I project. 🙂 Make them just before dinner and set them out hot, maybe with some soup, and we’re set.Â Delicious!

Coming Soon From a Tour Guide Near You

17MaySuzanneWriting

I’ve been rifling through Diana Wynne Jones “Tough guide to Fantasyland” for quite some time now,Â and have always thorougly enjoyed it.Â Â But today I had a lightbulb moment.Â Wouldn’t it be cool if I couldÂ write a Guide to my fantasy world? Obviously is wouldn’t be intended for publication, but it would give me a place to

Emergency Vision

17MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Writing

As I was heading down a narrow two lane road to pick my daughter up from school I crested a hill and realized that the car in front of me was stopped, waiting to turn left across traffic. I slowed to a stop behind them, then looked in my rearview mirror as the next car

Happy News with a Poker Face

16MaySuzanne2 CommentsNewsy Bits About Writing and Writers, Writing

My short story, Bovine Aspirations, has been accepted at Bewildering Stories and is scheduled to appear in issue 262. While I try to keep a very matter-of-fact and business-like attitude about this wholeÂ publishing thing, there’s no denying that I’m actually delighted. Excuse me for a moment while I go do a happy dance. Â Okay,

Locopops

16MaySuzanneHome in the Rookery

Today was a classÂ get togetherÂ at Duke Gardens for the five-year-old, so afterwardsÂ weÂ followed some friends over to a new-to-me ice cream/popcicle place, called Locopops. Homey, kid-friendly, and chock full of flavors to tantalize the taste buds, this place wasÂ love at first sight.Â After having my Chocolate Brownie locopop appropriated by my daughter (the child has good

Updated Picture

16MaySuzanneBlogging

Don’t worry!Â I didn’t just stumble into an inkwell of mis-placed time and age five or ten years–I’ve just updated my picture. This one is still a year or two out of date, but at least it’s got me out ofÂ the teensÂ look. Or maybe it was twenties.Â I swear, young people are looking younger every

Suzanne Warr

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