01 September 2011 ~ 0 Comments

War for the Oaks and various and sundry

I finished War for the Oaks in three days after ArmadilloCon. I had the same feeling that I had when I read it more than 15 years ago. I was brought back into this fantastic world of music, magic, fashion, food, where glamour was just around the corner and out of the corner of one’s [...]

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28 August 2011 ~ 4 Comments

ArmadilloCon — Saturday and Sunday

To those who borrow this book: If you don’t return it to Patrice, your hard drive will crash, losing the last two hours work on your project, which were the best thing you’d ever done. Also, your e-reader will fall off the counter into the toilet. And your cat will throw up in your favorite [...]

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26 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

ArmadilloCon Day 1 — writers workshop

I’m posting from the end of a long day at the convention, so please forgive any typos and incoherence. I’ve been on the go since 6:30. The first day was the writers workshop. We had excellent commentary from the teachers on everything from the necessity of redrafting to applying the screenwriting formul to novels (an [...]

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