Second Life
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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…
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Get Reading! Book Discussion on “Cinnamon and Gunpowder” coming October 20th
Mark your calendars now! Join us in Second Life for a rousing discussion of a fine new novel which features pirates and food! Pick up yer copy of “Cinnamon and Gunpowder” by…
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Steampunk Piracy Discussion at the Mary Read Library
As part of the full weekend of Swashbucklers for Life events, you are cordially invited to join the Scoundrel Fleet at the Mary Read Pirate Library in the Blake Sea, on Sunday, June 30th, 2013,…
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Steam Pirate’s Derby – Do You Dare?
The last of his crew, he was known as Gut Spiller John. He was hanged for piracy a month ago, and surely has taken the secret of Black Finger’s treasure to the grave……
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The Burning Of Armada Breakaway
As the coming weekend ends, so will Armada Breakaway. It is an Armadan tradition to burn when you go, and already the floating city is hot with the growing flames. They will…
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Peter Jurasik joins The Blackened Mirror for a one-off special radio play
Peter Jurasik, the well known American actor (Londo Mollari in Babylon 5, Sid the Snitch in Hill Street Blues) will be making a special appearance in a special spin off of The…
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The Federal Bureau of Amusement
A forgotten aspect of the FDR’s New Deal program, the FBA was created in 1934 to administer the equal and fair allotment of fun and good times to those who had been down…
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American Precisionists Art at First Bank Gallery in Seraph City
EXHIBITION: AUGUST 28 THROUGH NOVEMBER 1 An Exhibition curated by Gstone Turas Artists Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler share much more than a first name and birth year. Contemporaries, both were born in…
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Armada Sings a Siren Song, Calling You Home
Armada Breakaway is a floating steampunk pirate city in Second Life, scrapped together from the bones of old boats and swarming with brigands of all types and creeds. Armada Breakaway is inspired by…
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The Great New Babbage Bar Crawl
Get your crawl on in New Babbage between June 1st – June 30th! In New Babbage, drinking is the only activity that rivals building as the national past-time. To celebrate National Drinking Month,…
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The Busiest Two Weeks Of The Year
Today may have been my peak day in the seasonal cycle of Spring, which masqueraded as Summer today, being in the 90’s. As usual, the yard and gardens have turned into a jungle.…
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Art Where You May Not Expect It
Just for fun, I thought I would mention two ongoing art shows, a bit off the usual gallery paths. I enjoyed them both! The Old Works Art Gallery Located in Babbage Square, New…
