I ordered some yarn from Purl Soho. It’s an alpaca blend, which I don’t normally use, and so I wanted to try it. It was shipped by UPS. Behold my tale of woe. It’s been sitting at the UPS for 2 days. Pre-Covid, shipments from California came in 2 days, door to door. I want
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Long Week, Factories, and Kids
A terribly busy week. We wrote Ryder on Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, after a discussion with Avon, a decision was made to write Arabella’s very short story bribe. By the way, thank you to all of the OB-GYN who responded. We got our two experts, but we deeply appreciate your help. We
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Bribes and OB-GYN
As you probably know, print book stores are seeing reduced business during this pandemic. A couple of them were very kind to host our tour, promote our release, and generally help us, so in an effort to support them, we are resorting to bribes. Here are the links to order signed print books from the
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Happy Anniversary to Us And Happy Snippet to You
Yesterday was our 25th wedding anniversary. We had big plans for it in January, but COVID happened and we ended up spending it at home. We threw caution to the wind and ordered fried chicken. It was yummy. Worth the calories. A little snippet for you, as promised. Derek grabbed my reins. I gripped his
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Dragons, Workshops, and the End of Ryder
ASU WORKSHOP We agreed to increase the size of the workshop to get everyone on the waiting list in. Please think of your questions carefully because time will be limited. 🙂 If you were waiting to sign up, run over, because there maybe slots left with the new larger class size. T-SHIRTS Awhile ago Jéssica,
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EMERALD BLAZE Virtual Book Tour
EMERALD BLAZE is releasing on August 25, 2020. For obvious reasons, we can’t do a real book tour, but we are doing a virtual one, which means everyone can go. 🙂 Two things before I link our schedule. ZOOM/FACEBOOK LIVE All stops on our tour are using either Zoom or Facebook Live. You don’t need
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Chapter 11
Tulip moved through the streets at a steady, even pace. The sky had lightened to a luminescent pre-dawn grey and the ruined Midtown slid by on my left, dark against the pearlescent backdrop. My blood armor had turned coal-black, its magic gone. It crumbled away at the joints with the motions of the horse, breaking
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American “Bulgogi” and Russian Morkovcha
Oh noes, it’s a cooking post. I promised you return to a somewhat normal blogging. Today I offer you two recipes of Korean origin. These shouldn’t be mistaken for original Korean cuisine. It’s more of American/Korean and Russian/Korean fusion, but they are yummy and cheap. Bulgogi. When pandemic started, I bought a bunch of chuck
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Personal Post and Upcoming Promo
On July 12, Kid 2, whom some of you know as “Brandi,” sent a video of herself squirting hot sauce into her mouth followed by “Look at this, I can’t taste or smell anything.” This has never happened before in her entire life, not with colds, not with flu, not with any infection she’s ever
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Chapter 10 Part 2
Dedicated to Shani, Lail, and all other Hebrew speakers who came up with an awesome name for Moloch’s priesthood. ::waves at Emily:: The darkness pooling in the corner of the room moved. It flowed from the ceiling, from the floor, to its center, as if a large piece of the thinnest black gauze had been
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Scythians
This is a film about Tomiris, the queen and war chief of Scythians who defeated and killed Cyrus the Great around 530 BC. We used proto-Scythian tribes as the model for the People of the Kurgan, so these are Julie’s people. Archeological evidence suggest that they were probably a bit more blondish, but the movie
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Komer, Kohen, and OMG
Hi! I don’t know if you already know this and you did it on purpose or something, but I’m from Israel and I speak Hebrew as my first language, and I wanted to let you know that in Hebrew komer/kmarim is specifically only a priest of the christian church, and a priest for every other
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