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I voted for Barack Obama twice. The first time because I believed that he would be a positive change in leadership. The second time because the Republicans had not only no one I wanted to vote for, but I was actively afraid of what they might do in office, so I voted for Obama as the lesser evil. I’d wanted to vote for Gary Johnson the Libertarian candidate, but let all the talk of throwing away my vote scare me into not voting my conscience, but my fears. I vowed to follow my beliefs in poli...

It’s 2017, at last! I think we’re all relieved to see 2016 behind us. No one seems to be able to remember a year when there were so many notable deaths that made us all feel as if the world was a little darker for the lives that were snuffed out. We endured losses of our troubadours and musicians, our storytellers and writers, our thespians and actors/actresses that made us smile, think, and just brought happiness into our lives. When Carrie Fisher had a heart attack coming back from Paris...

Eomer and my current office view, for those that keep asking there’s a clue to what I’m writing in the picture.
I typed, Be Sure, today as I sat down to work on the book I’m writing. What I meant for it to do was remind me that I needed to pick an opening gambit and just start typing, but that’s not how my subconscious took it. Once I wrote those two little words, Be Sure, I didn’t write another damn word for an hour. It took me that long to figure out that it was those two words that had put...

Yesterday was a day of deep contentment for me, but today I’m grumpy. I chased an idea last night, staying up until midnight. I knew full well that I needed to get up at dawn to walk our dog Mordor in this tropical winter. (Did I mention we’re trying the tropics again this winter like we did two years ago?) My husband, Jonathon, and I have had enough of ice and snow. Genevieve came into our life hating the cold. She seems to take snow as a personal insult, but then she was raised in the sout...

I can’t fix everything that’s gone wrong this election cycle, or elsewhere in the world, but I can write a brand new Anita Blake story to share with all of you. I’m putting it up for free for a few days to share some smiles and some good news, because we need more fun in our lives.

I’ve been asked to raise zombies for a lot of reasons: for historical research, insurance fraud cases, witnesses that died before they could testify in court, family members that missed that last therapy worthy go...

I asked my friend and fellow AlternateHistorian, Sharon Shinn for a guest blog for October. Here are her thoughts. -Laurell

A couple of years ago around Halloween, I had a chance to write a guest blog about my favorite urban myth—from the point of view of one of my fictional characters. I chose the “dead celebrity who’s not really dead” trope. But since most of my books are set in imaginary and secondary worlds, my protagonist wasn’t sighting Elvis or JFK. She and her friends thought the my...

Happy Mabon! We welcome autumn in with a revival of the guest blog post. We’re starting off with a wonderful and informative blog from my friend and fellow writer Michelle Belanger. Enjoy the magic of the day and of the words below.

-Laurell

Six Tips for Researching Real Magic for Your Fiction

So you want to play with magic? More specifically, you want your characters to play with magic. That’s great. Magic is one of the key supernatural elements that helps to separate Urban Fantasy from sta...

I wrote this weeks ago, but was so busy actually writing, and living that I forgot to post it.
It’s raining here today. The kind of rain that settles in like a guest before the cozy fire with a cup of hot tea and a good book. It’s that kind of day, but I can’t curl up with someone else’s book yet, because I have my own to finish. Crimson Death is written, but now it’s page proofs which are the last chance to catch any small mistakes. If you find any large ones that would require pages to fix...

Laurell’s Schedule for SLCCC is up on the events page.

Go Check it out.

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I’ve started several blogs about recent events in our country and the question of gun control vs gun rights, and then I found this wonderful blog by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. I think he says many of the things I’ve been struggling to express. I hope he doesn’t mind that I put up a link to his blog while I continue to fight with my own words on the subject.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146307088451/why-gun-control-cant-be-solved-in-the-usa

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