Happy New Year’s Eve, squiders! May you have a fun and safe evening, and may 2016 roll in happily! Here are Smashwords’ trends for 2015, for those of you who are indie authors or pondering becoming an indie authors. See
2015 in review
Hello again, Squiders! I hope the holidays haven’t eaten you, and that the looming new year isn’t making you too anxious. I’ve got a novel draft due to the editor on Friday, and so I can’t promise anything too exciting
No Happily Ever After?
My husband and I finished up watching Wayward Pines last night (Yes, I realize we’re about four months behind, which is actually pretty good for us, television wise). And the series was working toward a conclusion, and working, and working–and
The Increasingly Muddy Line Between Fantasy and Science Fiction
Have I shown you my speculative fiction pyramid, squiders? Hold on, let me do a quick paint drawing for you. Tada! Behold, the speculative fiction pyramid. Because, back when I was doing the Subgenre Study, I found it increasingly difficult
An Unholy Alliance
Sorry, squiders, but I’m going to talk about Star Wars again. And Star Trek. We’ll get back to real content again on Thursday, when we will either talk about the fluidity of fantasy into scifi or antagonists, depending on how
Library Book Sale Finds: The Grail Tree
It’s that time of month again, Squiders. I’ve dug into the library book sale books from this summer and read another, and now I’ve come to tell you about it. (One might ask why the library book sale books are
The Thrill of Anticipation
I’m not going to lie, Squiders. For the last week or so I’ve had kind of a constant underthought going through my head. And it goes a little something like this: STARWARSSTARWARSSTARWARSSTARWARSSTARWARSSTARWARSSTARWARS It crept up on me. When the latest
A Landsquid Thanksgiving
Landsquid called his friend Turtleduck on the phone. “Come over,” he said. “I’ve learned about this great holiday that some people celebrate, where you get together with those you love, eat a shared meal, and go over what you’re thankful
Dramatic Interlude
No landsquid today, Squiders–my holiday weekend was overstuffed (pun intended, haha) and I’m still recovering from it on some levels. Thursday, I promise, and if I’m wrong I shall let the Alpaca have my favorite hat, even though he will
