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Recipe ~ Alien Pods
Ah spring, (so the calendar says) and we’ve wandered across a clutch of three alien pods. After astute scientific analysis we’ve finally broke their genetic code! 3 cantaloupes 2 ripe bananas 1 bag frozen blackberries Green grapes (for seeds) Each pod consists of one cantaloupe-ian shell, cut in half in a jagged way so it seems like the […]
Desiree Finkbeiner on The Beginning of Ethos: Morning Star
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 you handle writing your openings? […]
Writing Beginnings – Opening Sentence
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 sentence. Some fine examples: “Quinn had […]
Movie Review – Mongolian Death Worm
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 Mongolian Death Worm because it was […]
Readers Are Awesome!!
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 Facebook Fan Page! Thanks Kari!