Writer Tamago

I'm getting a lot of spam in my filter these days. The good news is that it's going in my filter. But I'm going to have to get a big bushy tail, so, like a wildebeest, I can wave the spam away. THAT was a weak analogy. Then again, it's not every day you can [...]

A couple of plugs have come to my attention from a couple of writers I know. Writer Michael Jasper and artist Niki Smith launch the first issue of In Maps and Legends, their cool comic. You can buy it in a variety of digital venues. *** J. Kathleen Cheney's novella "Snow Comes to Hawk's Folley" [...]

The Second of the Series! Caroline Stevermer was kind enough to answer some questions about College of Magics. I'm excited to learn that the sequel, A Scholar of Magics is about the likeable Jane, and that there is a third book in the works RIGHT NOW. Thanks, Caroline! Tamago: When we first meet Faris, she [...]

Ferrett publishes in Asimov's. Asimov's? That's kind of impressive. I think congratulations are in order. *** And now, some sobriety. It's been a strange morning here at Kirkwood. A student from Africa stopped in to drop her classes because her mother is dying in the Congo, and she must go away for a month. Her [...]

Caroline Stevermer wrote A College of Magics in 1994, so I'm a little behind the curve on reading it. My only defense is that in 1994, I started working on my doctorate in Second Language Writing, so I missed a chunk of material coming out from then until around 2001. I enjoyed Stevermer and Wrede's [...]

Today...I was stampeded by a herd of dangerous students. So all I can say is this: Project Runway Season 8: Gretchen: Does anyone else hate Gretchen as much as I do? I have never seen such a self-serving, arrogant contestant on the show. She even outdoes Wendy Pepper from Season One. Team Luxe: Those arrogant [...]

I've successfully revised almost the first two chapters of the troll story, which is a task I'll complete tomorrow morning. These 50 some-odd pages are the ones I'll be shooting off to the interested agent, and I'll be looking for some readers to let me know if I've combined the write amounts of action and [...]

Especially during back to school time, parents plan ahead for what to buy their kids. Children develop and get larger, so it's not uncommon for people to buy clothes that are a little larger than a child needs, because then the kid can grow into it. I smell a writing analogy. There's a lot of [...]

Well. *dust hands* Draft 3 of the troll story was finished yesterday evening. The next draft/polish should take less time. There are three objectives: 1. The romantic YA overlay (but not too sappy. I'd never make it as a romance writer.) 2. Change and focus the role of one of the characters a bit. 3. [...]

Leaving Florida this time made me wonder why I didn't just go to Disney again. The answer, of course, was that I wanted to capstone my Harry Potter fan experience. I wanted to see the new Hogwarts, and share that love with my geeky Harry Potter friends in a small way, the four of us [...]