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New Year’s Resolutions
Yes, it's the obligatory New Year's resolutions post! I'm sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which I'm going to set aside...
Year in Review
Short stories completed: 1 Scripts completed: 1 Novel first drafts completed: 1 Short stories that somehow morphed into novels-in-progess: 2 Short stories that were pulled from circulation and completely rewritten: 1 Short story submissions: 32 Short story rejections:...
I can promise you…
Dear Circe, I can promise you that you'll never have to take another pill, will never need any more bloodwork. There will be no more vet visits. No more sucky car rides. Goodbye, little ballerina kitty, who two months ago could jump over my head at the ripe old age of...
My favorite Christmas tree past…
One year, not too long after my parents had divorced, my mother tearfully announced that there would be no Christmas this year and stormed off to work. No money, you see. It just so happened that my mother also used to rescue half-dead plants from the office and nurse...
OpenID–it’s ba-ack!
Thanks to Mark Paschal (the author of OpenID Comments for MT), OpenID is back. I'll probably never know why Brian's OpenID stopped working--my guess is that it's just borked--but the LJ account I was using to test was missing a piece in the database. If you can't log...
Pandora
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.