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Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times

I’m going to limit this as to the only time I refer to C.S. Lewis – quite frankly, he’s preaching to the choir, and while I don’t agree with him 100% on everything he does (quite frankly, I am Christian but I find several of Narnia’s books rather tedious and obvious) I also quite enjoy exploring philosophy and rhetoric in prose.

That, and I like unreliable narrators. Obviously, this narrator is so over-the-top obvious I don’t even know if we ca...

So I was stalking on goodreads and I found someone doing a daily challenge – I figure hey: It’ll get me back into the groove of updating regularly. I know: I should be doing Top 10 Tuesdays, so I’ll probably work those in as well.

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

I first heard about Octavia E. Butler on a list of POC science-fiction and fantasy writers, and she was the only one I never heard of.

WHY DID I NEVER HEAR OF HER BEFORE??? WHY DID IT TAKE ME ALMOST THIRTY YEARS TO DISCOVER THIS WO...

To be fair though, the WOTI site keeps me busy, but I think I’m going to have to pick something to keep me regular here.

Not at When Words Collide this year – I know, I said I was gonna go, but something came up at the last minute and I pulled out – but apparently things are going very well in accordance to the people I know who are going, so hopefully life will calm down a bit next summer. I have a ton of work to get done before Comic Con anyway. But if you happen to be in the Calgary area –...

I’m on the last day of my vacation this lovely day – I’m on a 4 on/4 off, hence the going back for the weekend – my apologies for not posting, I’ve been trying to orchestrate other things and get other work done, not to mention basically just taking off and enjoying this glorious, albeit humid, weather. I have another 12 days off at the end of summer – life is good when you can bank overtime – but let’s just say that my ‘Summer Reading’ is probably going to have to wait a bit longer. There ar...

So fellow Burst author Audra Middleton had an idea for a meme – for as many days as possible for the month of July, we over atWorlds of the Imagination and as many guests as we can, are posting WIP’s of a speculative nature – but only seven lines, on page seven or seventy-seven seven lines down. I cheated because the scene in question is short but it’s close enough.

And in case you’re wondering, yes, Champagne/Burst is based out of High River, which is apparently the worst place effected by th...

It’s almost summer time in Manitoba – and that means festivals every weekend.

Of course, I have a job where I work some weekends (this weekend, for example, I had off but I ‘worked’ the Manitoba Marathon as a volunteer paramedic – or, at least in my case, a glorified people pusher, I didn’t have any good calls but I suppose that’s a good thing) but I went to a Pirate/Renaissance/Steampunk Fair this weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a Sparrowhawk there.

I included a sparrowhawk in T...

Sorry for lack of update; it stopped raining on Tuesday and I’ve been making up for lost time during my staycation. I also discovered I have the only dog in the world who doesn’t like going for walks, but I think it’s me going too long for the little guy, so we’ll take it easy tomorrow.

I think it went okay at Keycon – I didn’t sell very many Ebooks, but I had a bunch of people, when I talked about my books, who wanted it in print, so it’s a good sign (or maybe I’m just getting better at talki...

Sadly, Ellen won’t be attending KeyCon this year – Graeme Brown, R.J. Hore and I will still be there, so if you’re interested in our publishing house, check out the Radisson Hotel this weekend in Winnipeg. If you’re there, it’ll be raining the entire time anyway.

Also, there’s a new bonus for signing up for the Champagne newsletter, so check out the publisher’s main page and see if you want to win free stuff.

Yeah, beyond that, I’ve been spending my days off with sick people for a change, so I’...

Maybe I’m not light and fluffy enough, heh. Can’t think of anything fun besides Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett – don’t get me wrong, I love my humor, so this should be easy, but I can’t do it. Part of this is my kobo is down, part of this is because fluffy-lovekins just chewed through my laptop cord. Emotional outbursts have no place in training a dog, so that’s why I’m venting here; all my RL peeps are at work and will just laugh at me later anyway.

So three of us from the Worlds of Imagin...

So yesterday was the first time I got prevented to going to work from road closure – apparently, we had something like 35cm of snow yesterday. This pic is from the motel I stayed at last night, where it wasn’t so bad – things are melting but it’s May, and… snowing.

Actually, it’s not that bad; roads are way better then they were yesterday, but still.

So not doing anything for Canada’s image of things other than igloos and polar bears.

Ah well. Dodger (the puppy from a few weeks ago) is doing wel...