What do you think of the title "Believing in Charm City: 13 Tales of the Dark and Strange in Baltimore" for a collection of urban and dark fantasy stories set in the city of Baltimore?

I have to approve all comments to posts on my website, which is not a huge imposition right now because I'm still a small fish in a small pond.  This will hopefully change someday (soon, I hope), but for now it's not a big deal to check my website every couple of days and deal with any comments.  Most of the time they are spam comments attached to ( Read more... )

I think the icon says it all....  :-)

....now if only every day could be like that ( Read more... )

If you want questions, let me know, yadda yadda yadda....  Now on with the show.

1. You've said in the past that writing is what you want to do. What is it that you need to make that your full-time occupation?

In short, time, money, and little bit of luck.  I need time to actually write the stories in my head, and time to build up an audience (which ( Read more... )

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(No, I don’t know why you have to say “ORANGES”, I’m just following the meme! You can also of course simply comment on the entry without asking for ( Read more... )

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The speculative fiction world is a small one, and its publishers often operate on a razor thin margin.  Realms of Fantasy magazine was pulled back from the brink a year ago by Tir Na Nog Press when Sovreign Media decided to shutter it.  In the year since, they’ve done wonderful work, but now it seems that the economy has hit subscribers a bit hard ( Read more... )

This coming weekend at Balticon will mark another first in my creative writing career - I'll be doing my first public reading of my work.  Hopefully, this will be the first of many.  I'm excited and scared spitless all at once.

You see, one of my fellow Writer Goddesses got a reading slot (she's be teaching on thier poetry track for a few years ( Read more... )

I need some help from my LJ peeps.  I desperately need to get my hair cut, I'd like it to look nice and not be a hack job, and money is tight.   I have plenty to donate to Locks of Love, and would like to do so. Who knows of a good salon/stylist (reasonable distance for Columbia) that will give me a good cut free or at a reduced fee because of the ( Read more... )