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ConQuesT Weekend 2013
I spent last weekend at ConQuesT in Kansas City. One more salute to those who came from far away, hail and well met once again! This weekend was a success not only for visiting old and new friends, but also in accomplishing a number of goals, such as:- Successfully performed the song “May it Be” (Enya) at Tolkienfest with my son Ben accompanying on ( Read more... )
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Shapers' Veil excerpt
Here is a link to a reading I did a few weeks ago at Prospero's Books in Kansas City. My son video'd it for me.
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Shapers' Veil is a fantasy novel full of adventure and majesty. It is also an experiential journey into healing. Several modes of healing are woven throughout the story. The most familiar to human readers is herbal medicine as practiced by the healer Gydana.
Born into the potter's trade, Gydana was accepted among the nomadic Adeladans after showing ( Read more... ) -
Summer Memory
This ancient tree has outlived many of its own scions. It is broken in half, its core is rotted away, but it still sends shoots from its moss-covered skin. It is older than you know, its roots deeper than you can fathom. Stand in its shadow and breathe its power.
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I wrote a little bit on Monday, about 800 words. I wrote about 400 words yesterday, but I've nuked them already. Turns out the jailer is not who I thought it was at first. -
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Happy New Year, all you folk everywhere! 2011 is going to be a very busy year: my novel will be published and I'll be travelling more. Hopefully I'll be able to translate some of this activity into actual words. For now, I ponder the dragonfly; airborn and shining, as brilliant as a butterfly, yet predatory. How curious. -
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How on earth did it get to be October? And where's my helmet? -
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it's a good thing that I got a new computer before a virus took the old one, and that beer has 3 weight-watchers points.
