Frequentatives, episode 1
Happy Friday! I learned a new grammar term this week: A frequentative is an adjective or a noun that comes from a verb, but describes a repeated action. For instance, sparkle is the frequentative of spark. If you have sparks over and over, you have sparkle. Or,...
Signed paperbacks?
I had several readers ask me this week if there was a way to get signed paperbacks of my books, and the answer is YES! They will cost you $1 million dollars each, cash only. I’m just kidding. I mean, if you want to pay me $1 million, I’m not going to stop you, but you...
This or That?
I ask this because, I don’t know! There are some books it would be fun to go into (Narnia) and others…not so much (Westeros in Game of Thrones). I’d like to bring house elves from Harry Potter's world into real life. My house would appreciate it. I’d treat...
Book Characters in Real Life
I came across an interesting question recently: What fictional character is amazing in their book/show/movie, but would be insufferable if you had to deal with them in mundane everyday situations? I immediately thought of Jack Sparrow. I love watching...
Weird but fun German words.
It’s been a while since we talked fun words. I took German in high school, and while I’ve forgotten most of it, I do remember our German friends’ love of compound nouns. Have two nouns that are vaguely related? Shove ‘em into one word! Who cares if it’s now 27...
what are you reading?
Helllooo!! What are you reading? Do you recommend it? image credit I just finished Barbara Kloss's The Gods of Men, and it was AMAZING. I may have gasped out loud at a reveal during the climax. And now I'm starting Alisha Klapheke's The Fate of Dragons....
What to say when you got nuthin’
Medieval Book Curses
Did you know… ...medieval scribes put curses in their books lest anyone harm them? I'm not sure I blame them. Being a scribe in the Middle Ages would have been slow, detailed work. Can you imagine writing this? Apparently these scribes weren’t interested in...
Hello again! I’m petless.
Hello strangers! I’ve just poked my head out of my writing cave after an extended (read: panicked) endeavor to get book 3 of my Keeper Chronicles to my editor. I’m so very happy to say the book is out of my exhausted hands, and is in the capable hands of my editor...
WHERE IS SPRING???
To be honest, I usually like winter. I think snow is beautiful and cold weather just means fires and warm sweaters. But this year I'm not so sanguine about it. Turns out I have a limit on my cold tolerance. Here in northern Montana it's been stupid cold for a...