I managed to catch the last Art Hop of the season. If you haven’t stopped by the Monument Art Hops, the third thursday of each summer month, you really should. There’s free food, live music (sprinkled about downtown), and the galleries, stores, and restaurants stay open into the mild summer evenings. Fellow Pikes Peak Writer […]
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Authors are now encouraged to have book trailers (usually before the book comes out, but I flouted tradition, again). There are companies who will create book trailers for authors, but what does a former software engineer with a dangerous bit of Photoshop (PS) experience think when looking at those prices? I can do that myself! […]
Wow. All I can say is “thank you, what an honor,” to the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. I’m one of three nominees for their Writer of the Year award. I’m probably the most inexperienced author in either books published or time with the RMFWs (here’s a look at the nominees, under Mario Acevedo, the 2009 […]
In May, we visited the biggest Ham (amateur radio operators) Convention in the United States, and I watched my husband go silly with glee. I’m not the only geek in this household. We also visited Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, called the UP, and fell in love with Mackinac Island. No motorized vehicles are allowed on the […]
Here I am at my table at the Pikes Peak Library District’s (PPLD) 4th annual Mountain of Authors. I was invited to attend and be on their genre author panel. Surprisingly, almost all the other authors spent their introduction time explaining why their books don’t really qualify as genre (to be fair, one of the […]
I have the new Pathfinder cover displayed on the web site. One point is obvious when looking at the three covers: Major Ariane Kedros sure changes a lot, doesn’t she? Actually, in Ariane’s world, identity isn’t tied to appearance any more. Don’t like your face or body shape, skin color, hair color, or eye color? […]
