Writer Tamago

I was negligent in providing you with the first link when it went up two weeks ago, but since a second has come out, I figured I should hook you back up with Demon Muse and their two new posts about Stoking Your Creative Fire, Part 2: Embrace Your Creative Demon’s Rhythm. Part 1 Part [...]

I know what you're thinking. Same thing I'm thinking. Reading The City and the City by China Mieville and Kid vs Squid by Greg van Eekhout is a lot like having chocolate cake and grapefruit juice for breakfast. Actually, though, mmmm... *** It'll be a busy week at work and at play. I'll be working [...]

Teacher! Cath cannot resist when writers bring you particularly instructive write-ups. I've had the joy of meeting these writers when their first books came out, and the wonderful thing about both Jeaniene and Maggie is that success has not *sniff* changed the sincerity with which they come across on the Internet. In seriousness, though, these [...]

Oh no you don't, subconscious! I am finishing this troll novel, and the WQ costume. I am not... going to start on the small town werewolf novella because I know where to send it now. writing a short story for Writers of the Future because I wonder if I'd look good in a tux there. [...]

Another scrapbook moment for the newb. Bear with me. Ahem. The first appearance on line of my book. Thank you Barnes and Noble. In other news, I have my copy of Kid vs Squid. Do you have yours? Catherine

Here are some more books coming out soon that I'm interested in. Okay, eagerly anticipating by pacing across the floor and wearing a hole in my carpet. Jim Hines' third book of the Princess Series, Red Hood's Revenge is coming out in two long months. To help pass the time, Jim is having a book [...]

We are looking to hire a full-time teacher in the ELA program at work. It's a committee decision, the qualifications are pretty clearly laid out for the job, and the process is pretty easy to find out about if you read up on the job at HR. We have a pool of adjuncts who work [...]

If you can get it all into the title, do you have to write the journal entry? Writerly news: Bryon dremmeled the edges of the Morty Moose tokens, so the giveaways for the Herc book are ready to go. We have 52 right now and can make more. My role was washing and drying the [...]

If you are interested in winning your very own copy of Hulk Hercules: Professional Wrestler, Sonya Sipes, Cats Curious Publisher, is hosting a contest right here, right now. Your labor? Write a haiku about one of the 12 labors of Hercules, the subject of the novel. In case you need a haiku refresher, the structure [...]

Good news. My very own copy of Stuart Saves His Family has been shipped. Everyone has important works of art that reference their life. Jim Hines' Goldfish Dreams is one of those for me, as is Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. And then, there's Stuart Saves His Family, which doesn't seem to fit with the more [...]