The following is the first in a series of art-flash fiction collaborative pieces that I will be doing with the talented Tara Larsen Chang. This lovely thing made it’s debut last night at the Krab Jab Studio‘s DIVINITY show. # One for sorrow, two for mirth… The Sisters count the crows and they know all…
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Once there was a small child and his tiny elephant. They needed a forever-home, so they wandered up streets and down, knocking on doors, always hoping… And then, at the top of a tall flight of stairs and behind an apple-red door, a lady with brown hair and smiling eyes invited them to stay a…
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If you will be in the Seattle area at the end of October, you should plan on swinging by SteamCon V at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency. Running from Octobery 25th to 27th with a theme of “Around the World,” I will be there to participate in programming and sign All The Things and talk about…
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So, most of you have seen the lovely Disney short “Paperman.” If not, please find it on YouTube. I’ll wait. So, I watched it about fifty times yesterday. And I fell in love with it. So. You see this form? Our hero folds about a hundred of them and sails them out the window. ……
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There’s been a lot of creative stuffs going on at Chez Mantchev… the bit I can actually share with you is my recipe for fantastically ginger cookies. (Between friends, I refer to these as Boozy Woozy Timey Wimey cookies, because I started making them for a friend I gifted with a TARDIS cookie jar. Plus,…
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Well, not THAT Stage Manager, but the lovely Morgan Keyes, whose novel DARKBEAST is now out in stores. She’s here to let you in on a few backstage bits of information about stage management and writing! # Many thanks to Lisa, for allowing me to visit and tell you about my middle grade fantasy novel,…
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