Second Life
Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multiplayer online virtual world. On a personal level, it's where I meet up with my bi-weekly writers group, host a monthly Salon at an inworld library, and enjoy talking about books with my book club.
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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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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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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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Can Virtual Reality be Cozy? Of Course!
Winter has arrived in New Babbage. Time to curl up in front of a roaring fire with a good book and a comforting cup of hot cocoa or coffee (spiked with Baileys, of…
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Second Life Book Club Shreds It!
On Wednesday, Draxtor Despres brought his weekly show, the Second Life Book Club, to The Inkwell in New Babbage.
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The Second Life Book Club – Drax and Ceejay, Together Again!
For my second visit with Drax, we will talk about my new cookbook, Shredding It: A Cabbage Cookbook and whatever else comes to mind! Update: Drax decided to bring his show to my book shop.…
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Fantasy Faire Chat Transcript: The AI-lephant In The Room
There’s no denying that AI is here, probably to stay. How can a writer ethically make use of this technology to get tasks done, and still sleep well at night? My co-host for…
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Writer’s Workshop with Ceejay Writer: Getting Down To It – The Reality of Fiction Writing
This is the transcript of a workshop held in the virtual world of Second Life. About 30 avatars attended. There's lots of chatter and brainstorming going on (as often happens in SL) as…
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Second Life’s Fantasy Faire Literary Festival 2024 Begins
Fantasy Faire is open! Check the Literary Festival calendar for my events, which I will be running as my avatar, Ceejay Writer.
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Just a Ceejay Girl, in a Barbie World
Today my Second Life avatar, Ceejay Writer, took a vacation from the Real World and visited Barbie Land.
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Writing Workshop: Blurbs the Word!
If that back cover description isn't compelling, your potential audience could be passing you by. Learn how to hook a casual browser and turn them into your next avid reader.
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Writing Workshop: Continuity: Solid Worlds, Believable Characters
Ever have a character change their hair color, accent, or even gender in mid-story? And it's not part of the plot? Oops. If your Loki-wannabe isn't a shapeshifter or a trickster, it's up…
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Fantasy Faire 2023: My Literary Festival Events
If you're a Second Lifer and also a writer, you may be interested in attending my special events at Fantasy Faire 2023
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Fantasy Faire 2023: Building a World Without Cancer
Celebrating its fifteenth year, Fantasy Faire 2023 is the largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts, roleplayers and performers in the virtual world.
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Werks from the Iron Road releases Werk-Books Version 3.0
Werks from the Iron Road, a webstore and design house based in the virtual world of Second Life, has announced the arrival of Werk-Books Book Scripts Package, version 3.0, to its Second Life…
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Santa and the Region Crossing
This is a reprint of a story I wrote for Prim Perfect, issue #38 in December, 2011. Happy 10th anniversary, little story!
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Good News for Second Life Readers, Writers, and RPG Fans
I've received a press release that has me really excited. As an author who's also a long-time resident of Second Life, I'm always interested in the various ways literature is enjoyed in-world. A…
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Book Review: AFK
AFK by Huckleberry Hax My rating: 3 of 5 stars AFK will only make sense if you’ve been in the virtual world of Second Life for quite a few years, as this ‘SL…
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SL Book Club – Writers In Virtual Worlds
A few days ago I read from A Life Invented on the Second Life Book Club, a talk-show that broadcasts from the virtual space of Second Life. I enjoyed the experience! If you…
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Salon Transcripts Available To Read
The Doggerel! Salon, both edited and unedited versions, are up at the website. A bonus for this salon is a new page of poetry to house submissions by salonistas. Rory Torrance has started…
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The Aether Salon Presents: Doggerel!
Doggerel! Aether Salon Sunday, November 15th 2:00 – 3:00pm SLT New Babbage Palisades There once was an Aether Salon Where brains carried more weight than brawn The wide range of subjects Kept all…
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Join Me at Fantasy Faire’s Literary Festival Events
This yearly event in Second Life to benefit Relay for Life opened to the public today. You can visit anytime to explore the fantastic realms, or attend special events, through May 10, 2020.
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An Island of Books
I recently set up a book shop on Book Island, a region in Second Life that celebrates books, readers, storytellers, authors – if it’s literary, it’s here. Come visit! I have a free…
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Fantasy Faire 2019 – Builders of Hope
Last year I was delighted to be invited to Fantasy Faire as a Literary Festival featured author, and I want to pay it back. This year, in honor of my dad, lost to…
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99th Aether Salon Chat Transcript: Foraging! with Ceejay Writer
If you admire food, or have been known to occasionally eat food, or perhaps have even gone so far as to stir food in a pot, you may know that food can be…
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The First Annual Doll Fest-For-All
For Immediate Release February 15, 2019 DOLL DUO DECLARES MARCH 3 DOLL DAY DEBUT Second Life Steamlands Residents Seek To Foster Doll Culture The Steamlands of Second Life, February 15, 2019 – On March…
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Literary Festival at Fantasy Faire
This weekend, I will be making various appearances at the Fantasy Faire’s Literary Festival, a benefit event to support the American Cancer Society. My avatar, Ceejay Writer, will be representing me at the…
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Æther Salon: Transcript of Publishing Salon
Last month I gave a talk at the Aether Salon in New Babbage, a virtual steampunk city in Second Life. There was a record crowd of avatars representing published writers, hopeful writers, and…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Virtual Galaxy
Seeing as how I’m on vacation this week, I thought I’d let Ceejay take a bit of a virtual jaunt in Second Life. So, she got out her Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic device and hitched a…
