Please welcome Desiree Finkbeiner author of the fantasy novel Ethos: Morning Star and Graphic Designer, who willingly subjected herself to being my first torture subject…errr…guest Keeping with the Theme of Beginnings – here’s what Desiree has to say about writing the Beginning of Ethos. Raven: Did you have issues with it? How do...
Read more →Gone are the days of slowly oozing out a beginning with frilly descriptions of the skyline, weather (unless it’s dramatic weather!) or lazily droning about a character’s description and backstory. And thankfully so! How very dull. In today’s world of fiction authors must hook their reader (remember, editors are readers too!) with the first...
Read more →Lain and I are excited to announce that book one of our Weeping Dark epic fantasy series, Bleeding Edge, has been contracted by Crescent Moon Press!! The doom spreads! Muahahah *cough* We don’t have an exact release date yet but they’re estimating a late 2012/early 2013 release. For up-to-date info posted whenever we get...
Read more →Title: Mongolian Death Worm Director: Stephen R. Monroe Genre: Horror/Creature Feature Rating: 2 bats This gets two bats purely because I like the death by worm scenario and there’s so few of them out there. That said, I have to wonder if some of the people involved in Tremors were involved in...
Read more →Woohoo! Got a surprise in my email box last night! A fan of our Raven & Lain Bower page noticed that we didn’t have a banner – so she made one! It’s really cool and it was super sweet of her to do. What a great email to open Check it out at our...
Read more →Title: Unlimited Author: Jillian Michaels Genre: Non-Fiction Publisher: Three Rivers Press Series: No Rating: 5 bats Heat Level: n/a Wow. This should be mandatory reading material! I read this book last year and am refreshing myself with it this year. It is amazingly inspiring without the pander or excuses a lot of self-help...
Read more →Contexts 25 Lain and I will be attending Contexts 25 in Columbus Ohio this year! We’re excited! The last time we attended this event we had a fabulous time and met lots of interesting people. The fine ladies and gents who run it are great hosts. Frank Hall, our editor at Hydra Publications, will...
Read more →Welcome! To our new lair on the web! We’ve been fiddling with this for a while now, as you can see from the post dates, with the help of the web designer at Market Intelli-Sense – thanks John for all your help! Thanks also to my friend Tricia Ballad at Take a Break Vacations...
Read more →Gothic Cemetery! Of doom! Because everything goes better with doom Here are some of the ‘before’ pictures – I have different views that I’ll post later – that capture the majority of where the cemetery will be. It faces our bedroom windows so every morning…Dawn of the Dead anyone? Ahem. Anyways, bad jokes...
Read more →Haunted Beginnings Greetings and welcome to what will become the haunted orchard! Muahahaha! To give a little background this…sand pit you see was once a cool wildling area and upon its edges sat my 5 year old red currant bushes and 5 year old grape vines. That was until nigh on two years...
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