Writer Tamago

If you are an author, and you'd like to send any of your work to me for reading for nomination for the Hugos this year, I'd be happy to look at it. Yes, I have paid the cost of admission, and now I can nominate stories for the ballot. Your best bet is to send [...]

We emerge from our Christmas break to report that Walter Jon Williams just sent me my acceptance letter to Taos Toolbox. I know, you were all so sure. I wasn't, so we'll just go with that. I find, in the author gig, it's always better to be prepared for rejection. That said Or maybe . [...]

Breakfast Gingercake Orange Juice Milk Dinner Sparkling Grape Juice Water Roast Beef Tenderloin Parmesan Potatoes Green Beans with Almond Slivers Whole Grain Rolls Cranberry Cherry Compote Key Lime Pie or Chocolate Pots de Creme Supper Most likely leftovers from the above two meals. *** Ingredient shopping tonight. Hopping down to the MiL's tomorrow, and beginning [...]

It's Christmas, and even more than Thanksgiving for me, it is the time of year when I realize that I don't have much of a family. It's also the time of year when I realize that what I want is the fantasy family that I've been taught we all should have. I definitely made the [...]

Um...no, this isn't for steampunk...although you can use it. I'll be getting on with my Gothic bad self now. Victorian Interiors and More Victoria Station Victorian Decor

Let's get this link up here, with thanks to Jay Lake: Don't Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. Because these economists realize how important the middle class is. *** Keeping with the financial theme, it's now time for a fiscal fable.

Well, I've been thinking about what to put on the old bloggeroo in the New Year. You might have noticed that I have finished my VP XIII interviews (Yes, I know I didn't do a spotlight on me, so the interviews aren't complete. That's for all you literalists out there. No, I don't intend to [...]

Some of you might remember when I decided last year to commit to 12 hours of writing time a week, or 624 hours for the year. My hope was to collect expertise hours to the tune of around 6K more before I retire in 2020 to write full time. More details? You betcha! *** So, [...]

Mistraldol is the most important house in the Klarion series. While the books do not start at Mistraldol, they return there soon enough. The ancestral home of the Klarions in England, it was built in the 1500s into the side of a mountain in the Peaks District. The house has connections to the realms of [...]

The next house I had to find was Galt House. Galt House is the ancestral home of our main protagonist. They're a complicated bunch, slightly on the ruthless side, and they really, really want the Klarion scroll. The house that I've patterned Galt House on is Abbotsford. Abbotsford is in the south of Scotland, and [...]