Happy Mother’s Day!

My friend Erin Hartshorn is the featured author in the current issue of Spacesuits and Sixguns Magazine. The e-mag’s cover art was inspired by her short story Rise of Kencha. Click on over. Pour yourself a coffee first–it’ll take a few minutes to read as it’s just over 5K. Well worth your time. Enjoy!

We enjoyed the butterfly pavilion, as you’ll also see from the new header and layout! 

What do you use for a canvas? Besides, like, real canvas, or the computer monitor… Here’s a couple ideas: You could paint on hands. Or, if that sounds too easy, you could paint on cats. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but you know, you could. Maybe other places too. I dunno.

So. You think you’re a fantasy writer? See how you fare on the The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam. I’ll be interested to hear the results.

The amount of writing related things I have gotten done this week is pitiful. Between my guys finally hiring someone to fix up the exterior of the store, physio, customers, etc, I’m not much ahead of the game. The exterior fixup affects me because I’ve been nagging my guys for about the last three years…

  We went for a drive through the mountains on Sunday afternoon and stopped for a little scramble up an old quarry site. The view was magnificent. You can just make out the highway down below. What a glorious day!