Ah, the best laid plans of mice and authors…Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way you had planned. Take for example putting your kids to bed. It’s almost always a struggle. Brush your teeth, get your pajamas on. It’s the same thing every night. And yet the kids just never want to do it, …
It’s been a slow train a-comin’ but the midnight special line is getting ready to pull into the station. And I can assure you that it will be packed with stories and goodies for all the boys and girls of Readtown USA. That’s right, Through the Viscera is just about here. The release date has been set for …
Six Degrees time again, folks! And once again, I was without a character up my sleeve for the longest time. Jenelle wrote last week about Lemony Snickett’s Series of unfortunate events and unfortunately I was drawing a blank on the characters the mentioned. For the longest time I was fixated on either Violet or Claud. Both seemed …
Ready for another round of “Six Degrees of Kool Books”? If you’re not familiar with how this blogging game works, check out my original post on this series. Now let’s jump right in. Last week, Jenelle Schmidt posted about Eanrin from Tales of the Golden Wood by Anne Elisabeth Stengl. And J.L. Mbewe posted about Dumbledore from The …
There are many motivations people have for sitting down to write: to express frustration, to describe something beautiful, to record ideas and concepts for posterity. I made a short video a while back entitled which touched on some of the reasons why I write. But as far as the day to day motivation, sometimes the big …
The Six Degrees series is off and running! Huzzah! This week we get to hear from two wonderful authors, Jenelle Schmidt, and J.L. Mbewe. They both looked at The Hobbit from last week and they both picked Gandalf as their character to relate to another book. And who could blame them? Gandalf is such a rich and …
Ready for the second installment of “Nightstand Books”? This was something I first posted about a while back, i.e. what books were on my nightstand. It thought it would be a cool way to just let people know what I’ve been reading or plan to read or have read in the past. I had originally …
Welcome to the “Kool Books” series. If you stumbled across this post and are wondering just what this whole “six degrees” thing means, please see my original post about how it all works. To kick off this “kool” new series there were so many books I could have chosen, but the more I thought about …
