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Sack Lunches
Today is the first Saturday of the month, so it’s Sandwich Ministry time. This is a practice that my congregation started years ago, and which we joined enthusiastically when we discovered it. In 2020, due to social distancing, etc., the … Continue reading
World-Building Using the Real World
At Ring of Fire Con, I had a terrific interview with Christopher Ruocchio about world-building. Have a listen for explanation of some inside jokes in various books of mine, or as a craft thought piece, about using and reacting to … Continue reading
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Serpent Daughter
Today, Serpent Daughter hits the stands. This is book four of the Dragon Witchy War, and commences the second trilogy in that series (following Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, and Witchy Kingdom–all three Dragon Award finalists, and Witchy Kingdom the 2020 … Continue reading
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Tagged Sarah Callhoun, Serpent Daughter, Witchy Eye, Witchy KIngdom, Witchy War, Witchy Winter
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At the Springville Museum of Art
Book restorer, plastic artist, and ukulele virtuoso Chris McAfee turned a copy of City of the Saints into a piece of steampunk art a few years ago. That piece is currently on display in Springville, Utah. And also available for … Continue reading
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Seshnelans
The fantasy gaming world of Glorantha has a land on the western shores of its northern continent called Seshnela, which one of the realms dominated by “Western” or “Malkioni” culture. How this culture has been represented has changed over various … Continue reading
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Tagged Glorantha, Miniatures, RuneQuest, Sea Peoples, Seshnela, Sherden
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World Fantasy: Query Workshop
This Wednesday, at the World Fantasy Convention, I’ll be presenting a two-hour workshop on writing query letters. I did this same workshop at LTUE in February, and it was very well received. February’s class was in person, of course, and … Continue reading
Barbecue Sauce
Elder Nick Benson, from Blackfoot, Idaho, introduced me to the idea that you could make your own barbecue sauce. We were in Brescia, Italy, in 1993, and barbecue wasn’t exactly to be found on the shelves at the time. On … Continue reading
My Own Private Idaho
There are places and institutions that exist persistently in my dreams, in significantly different form from how I actually experienced them. One of them is our house in Idaho. In my dreams, but only in my dreams, we remodeled the … Continue reading
Texas Wants Me, Anyway
I’ve been in Houston and in Fort Worth in the last two weeks, hitting a variety of bookstores to meet staff and sign stock. This week, I finish my tour of Texas by tagging along with Larry Correia as his … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Half Price Books, Larry Correia, Monkey and Dog, Texas, The Twig, Witchy Eye
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