“Ride the dragon! Only one in a hundred can keep his seat for sixty seconds. Do you have what it takes?” The dwarf’s sweeping gesture indicated the mechanical dragon behind him, currently immobile. Jorrick’s father nodded a greeting to the…
Monthly Archives: September 2015
62 Million Girls
I’m going to make one of my rare forays into something political. I’ll preface this by saying I rarely admire any politician. The very nature of their work requires too many compromises. But I believe this campaign can do only…
Interview with Colleen Story
Colleen M. Story writes imaginative fiction and is also a freelance writer specializing in health and wellness. Her first book, Rise of the Sidenah, was released by Jupiter Gardens Press in September 2015. Her next novel, Loreena’s Gift, is forthcoming…
Tagged with: Colleen Story, interview, three cool things only writers get to do
Posted in Author Interviews
Posted in Author Interviews
Is Goodreads Good for You?
This is a reblog of Ellis Schuman’s excellent post on the topic. I, too, have been puzzled as to how to use goodreads as an author. Twitter, Facebook, blog–sure, I can see how all of those work into an overall…
Posted in Goodreads
Twitter: Getting Over the Two Thousand Follower Roadblock
You may or may not know this, but being able to follow over two thousand people on Twitter can be a pain. According to Twitter Support “… every user can follow 2000 people total. Once you’ve followed 2,000 users, there…
Tagged with: 2000 following limit, Cathleen Townsend, ManageFlitter, unfollow
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Commas and Parenthetical Statements
* It’s time for another fascinating episode concerning the slippery little comma. There’s a good reason it’s the most misused punctuation in the English language. The rules are many and varied. Purdue says: “Use a pair of commas in the…
Tagged with: absolute phrases, appositive phrases, Cathleen Townsend, clauses, Comma, essential phrases, infinitive phrases, parenthetical, participial phrases, prepositional phrases
Posted in Writing
Posted in Writing
Magic’s Stealing by Stephanie Flint
Magic’s Stealing has an interesting premise: that all magic is in the form of ribbons, and these can be seen by adepts as they manipulate them. The story focuses on Toranih, a young woman who has always scorned magic, in…
Cathleen Townsend 