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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.
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Angie Sandro is the kind of person I get to brag about knowing– even more now that Dark Paradise (Grand Central Publishing/ Forever Yours) is shooting onto the shelves this July! So I’m super excited to be able to share the book’s cover with all of you! As part of this event, she’ll be giving
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I was trawling through SMBC Comics, and I found one in particular that caught my attention. It may not be the most hilarious page Mr. Wiener* has ever penned, but it makes a lovely point about conflict. (*Yes, that is his name.) One person’s bad day is another person’s best day ever– and in a
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2013 has been a pretty intense year for me. It’s the year I got a house, the year I got a dog, the year I started grad school, the year I celebrated my fifth year being married to Boxy. Now that we had a place to hold them, we hosted a Halloween party, and a
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Whenever I meet a new volunteer at the bookstore, I introduce myself as Loudmouthed and Opinionated (seriously, my rants are pretty much legendary). But you don’t need to be able to go on hour-long rants to have an opinion. In fact, most opinions don’t need to be stated outright, because often they’re so ingrained in your
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http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nc-the-last-airbender-6637022 I was watching this episode of the Nostalgia Critic, in which he analyzes M. Night Shyamalan’s travesty The Last Airbender and compares it to Avatar: The Last Airbender, upon which it was based. I recommend you check it out, too– you won’t be disappointed. He made one point in particular, though, that stuck with
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Happy Halloween to everybody! If you’re curious, Dean Winchester is a character from the TV Show Supernatural. Welcome to Night Vale is a free humor/horror podcast produced by Commonplace Books (very appropriate for Halloween!)
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Brief Housekeeping: Some of you may have noticed a lack of updates this month. Due to school being school, I’ll be changing my schedule to post every other week instead of weekly. In my experience editing, I’ve noticed I use two words more than any other: “comma” and “cut”. The former, being one of the
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The Potato Room I like to think of myself as a casual gamer, more interested in stories than actual shoot-em-up action– which is why Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a big favorite of mine (even if I can’t fix the stupid elevator). While playing Amnesia’s shorter tangent, Justine, I wound up in what I fondly
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A while back I won a signed edition of Kindar’s Cure from one of Michelle’s contests, and it finally arrived in the mail. Awesome~
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According to Wikipedia, an archetype is defined as: A statement, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. The Platonic philosophical idea, referring to pure forms which embody the fundamental characteristics of a thing. In Jungian psychology, archetypes refer to a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image,
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Author of The Dealmaker’s Gambit, the Urban Dragon Series, and Tatter and Shine
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