I think Alma Alexander will not remember this, but I met her once. It was at one of the Writers’ Weekends in Seattle, probably before I got published, or possibly the very summer I got published, in 2004 or 2005. I idled by her table during a signing, picked up her books THE HIDDEN QUEEN and CHANGER OF DAYS, and said “Oh, I’ve been wanting to read these! I’m waiting for the third one to come out!” “THERE ARE ONLY TWO OF THEM,” Alma said somewhat stridently, which made me…
Author: mizkit
movies & bookstore accident
A friend of ours won a free screening of any film she chose, and chose “The Princess Bride”, so yesterday we and about a dozen other people were treated to a big-screen showing. I haven’t seen The Princess Bride on the big screen since it came out, and I must say, aside from the audience-wide chuckle at Fred Savage’s cutting edge 1987 Atari baseball game, it has aged flawlessly. Every time I see that movie I hope everyone involved knew just what a wonderful, wonderful film they were making. It’s…
Help Find Amy
One of my readers asked me to boost the signal on a friend of hers who’s gone missing. She says: A friend of a friend of mine, Amy Ahonen, disappeared on 7/8 from the highway west of Golden, CO. Her wallet, keys, and cell phone were all still in her car. The official search for her was called off after a day and a half. Recent information suggests she may have been abducted, and could be anywhere. Now family and friends are trying to harness the immense power of the…
Dear Brain…
Memo from Brain: Hey! We’re only under contract for one book a year! This is starting to make us a little nervous! How about we CROWDFUND A NOVEL!? YEAH THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY AWESOME MAN Dear Brain: In reply to your memo of the morning of 15/7/11, I would like to make the following observations: 1. Revisions on RAVEN CALLS (due 31 July) 2. completion of 6-8 more Old Races short stories (due 31 December) 3. completion of “Easy Pickings” (due, er, when we finish it) 4. completion of ElectriCity…
interview meme
I was going through old blog entries and found an interview meme I can find no evidence of having actually answered. There are probably a bunch of those, actually, but having come across this one I thought I’d go ahead and answer it. About five years after the fact, but hey. skeagsidhe/ asked, in, er, 2006: 1. If you could write 1 thing, any style, any genre and it would be 100% guaranteed to be published, what would it be? RIGHT ANGLES TO FAIRYLAND, my middle-grade/YA fantasy novel, but you…