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Parlor Poetry Ready for Preorder
Discover the curious and innovative Victorians and marvel at their inventions and discoveries, fashions and fads, along with more than a few peculiar habits and beliefs in Parlor Poetry: A Victorian Versification Abecedary.
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Book Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another
If you've ever considered a career as a historian but worry that it might be too dusty, boring, and academic for your snarky personality, there's hope for you. The deliberately-dull name of St…
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Book Review: Shadows in Chinatown
I quite enjoy historical fiction novels. When they are well done, it's as if I've been given my own time travel machine. Shadows in Chinatown transported me back to 1886, where Miss Karine…
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Creepy Walnut Faces
Welcome to my little Pop-Up Art Exhibit!
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If you could talk to a publisher… oh wait, now you can. Opinions wanted!
The founder of a new publishing platform is hoping for lots of input on a survey created to help better understand what readers and writers want from publishers.
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Foraging, Farm Life, and Asparagus Soup
You know I love foraging. Out behind the back yard, beside the path leading along the creek to the woods, there’s an asparagus patch. Kurt the landlord says it’s probably 50 years old…
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Book Review: Immortal Consequences
Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Debut author I.V. Marie’s novel has cover and page edge art that brought my tomescrolling (that’s doomscrolling for bookworms, I made it…
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Wuthering Rewrites – The Fantasy Faire Workshop Chatlog
The full chatlog from the "Wuthering Rewrites" Mashup Workshop at Fantasy Faire 2025 in Second Life.
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Book Review: When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?
Many years ago, I spent a year living in New Jersey. Every weekend I'd take the train into New York City and go exploring. But a year's worth of explorations is simply not…
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Book Review: Grimsworld Tales
Grimsworld Tales by David Hankins My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you haven’t yet visited David Hankins world, filled with absurdity, bureaucracy, coffee, cats, demons, quips, and scythes, you are in for…
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Book Review: Eleven Numbers
What could possibly go wrong at a mathematics conference?
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Wuthering Rewrites: A Mashup Workshop for Writers
Here's a slideshow featuring 25 mashup book covers, the event poster, and a full chatlog of the workshop from the Fantasy Faire 2025 event in Second Life.
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Fantasy Faire to Benefit Relay for Life 2025
Celebrating its seventeenth year, Fantasy Faire 2025 is the largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts, roleplayers and performers in the virtual world.
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Book Review: It Rhymes with Takei
George Takei’s ventured into storytelling once again, and It Rhymes With Takei is his best effort to date.
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Book Review: Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
I love a cozy mystery, especially when they are food-centric. Of course I couldn't resist one set in a soul food cafe in Chicago.
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Book Review: American Housewife
I'd classify this story as Fantasy. It gives us an idealized version of a rose-colored view of the past, effectively creating a double layer of the ideal mid-century American good life.
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Book Review: The Old Testament of Edmund Dulac
If you've enjoyed Albert Seligman's previous collections, you already know what a treat this book will be. If you haven't read one before, I'm confident you will enjoy this book.
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Read an eBook Week!
My novel, kid's short story collection, and two cookbooks are all 50% off at Smashwords this week!
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Book Review: Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape
Be honest: Who hasn't wished they could go back in time and re-do that most awkward stage of life... being a teenager?
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Book Review: The 4midables – Who Are They?
Who Are They? leans into thrills, action, and mystery, especially the rising curiosity of the world regarding the identity of who everyone is calling the "Robin Hood Heroes".
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Book Review: Enchilada Entrepreneur
As a lifelong fan of Mexican restaurants, I couldn't resist picking up this book, based on the title.
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Book Review: Trial of a Dragon
How will they convince anyone that a hellfire-breathing red dragon is innocent?
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Inky’s Nightclub and Game Room
The Inkwell Book Shop's adjacent nightclub, Inky's, now features three interactive MadPea games and a punching bag arcade game.
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Book Review: 8 Canterbury Tales
After decades of avoiding Chaucer, I found myself enjoying his outrageous stories (they really are rather crazy!) for the first time in my life. Perhaps this is the book you need to get…
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No Frills Yet Delicious Sourdough Bread Loaf
A basic recipe for a loaf of sourdough bread, perfect for making sandwiches or toast.
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Book Review: Death and the Dragon
This eagerly-awaited sequel to author David Hankin's Death and the Taxman picks up the pace as we continue the absurd but believable adventures of the Grim Reaper himself.
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Book Review: The Women of Edmund Dulac
If this is your introduction to Albert Seligman's series of The American Weekly collections, you're in for a visual treat. If you've been with this project since the beginning, you're no doubt anxious…
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I Found Eleven Ways to Rhyme with “Zoetrope”
This book's been simmering on the back burner for quite a while, but I'm moving it to the front and turning up the heat.
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Book Review: Twits Hit the Target
I was pleased to see a new addition to the Twits Chronicles, just before Christmas. So of course I bought myself a present!
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Book Review: Half-Off Ragnarok (InCryptid #3)
It was brave of the author to change protagonists just three books into a series, but as it turns out, it was a fine choice.
