Great Hopping Blog-Hops!

I’ve been tagged by author Zoe Dawson to participate in the New Year’s Blog Hop this week. I’ve never done a blog-hop before, so already my calves are getting tired… So the purpose of the blog hop is for us authors to reach out to new readers (always a favorite activity–I embarrass myself at parties […]

Worldbuilding Wednesday: Empathy In Strange Places

Took a trip to the museum today to see an exhibit on Pompeii. I came away with a sense of how like us the people of the ancient Roman empire truly were. They had plumbing, fast food and take-out (in containers with ads on them, even!), and like us, they had a great cultural pastime […]

Worldbuilding Wednesday: Who Built It?

Yeah, I’m capitalizing a little over the political kerfluffle, because hey, I like a policy fight as much as the next guy, but that one’s right on the level of an internet message board fap-fight over spelling and LOLcats. But the point behind it has a place in fiction. Who built your characters? Everyone has […]