Writer Tamago

That was the weekend that was. I dropped Jane Yolen off at the airport at 5 am. She tells me she's going back to around 20 inches of snow and no electricity. But her flights were on time. Her son, Adam Stemple, was also at the convention. Yesterday I took both of them to see [...]

$9000. Just for me.

I spent the morning essentially working on what I would call the final first draft of Substance of Shadows. Not that I expect that to make any sense at all. Right now I'm having to choose between writing the book and writing the blog. I think I'm making the right choice, although I miss writing [...]

No, I will not be at World Fantasy. It would be a blast, but I am not coming. Instead, I am going to be at Icon this weekend. Yup, in exotic Cedar Rapids. Most of my weekend will be spent shuttling around fiction and folklore icon Jane Yolen. Which will be pretty cool, actually, because [...]

The Standard Bearer pointed at the castle and said to her Companion, "There. This is the home of the lord and lady I serve." Stones littered the ground in front of the castle, and as they watched, the roof of a parapet crumbled and sprinkled to the ground. The Companion said nothing, but followed the [...]

I would like to promote some of my writer friend's recent publications and acceptances, but there are so many of them that I worry about forgetting many things. Given the amount of brain space work is taking up these days, that's almost a guarantee. It is my hope that if I BEG my writer friends, [...]

Here I am, thinking. What I am thinking is that I now have only one short story circulating. Mark Twain's Daughter came home yesterday, and true to my word, I sent it out to Writers of the Future. Well, I wrote the nice people at WotF with a question, and they were so solicitous and [...]

Marion Engelke is a praticing psychotherapist who just moved to Hamburg, Germany to get married. She is also a fantastic writer. Tamago: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Marion: I don't remember ever wanting to be a writer. What I wanted was to write stories as gripping as the one I'd [...]

I did mention that I wanted to write a post related to Sean Craven's recent entry over at Renaissance Oaf, entitled An Immigrant in the Country of Love. I've been finding a lot of parallels in my own earlier transformation and Sean's current ones, as he begins to see himself as part of a larger [...]

Mississippi, don't make me come down there. I mean it. And I'm not really happy with Kansas either right now. Perhaps no where have I seen more righteous anger about what's being done to women than in Tamora Pierce's journal. Jim Hines elaborates on Topeka in two posts. *** Well, then. I guess there's no [...]