10 Amazing Reading Nooks

If you had unlimited funds, what sort of reading nook would you install in your home? Here are some inspirational photos This nook can double as a guest bed and the chest beneath is great for storage. Here’s a cozy nook in blue. An unusual lounge chair makes this nook visually interesting. Who wouldn’t like…

Insecure Writer’s Support Group: Word Processing

It’s First Wednesday again, so time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group Post! July 3 question – What are your favorite writing processing (e.g. Word, Scrivener, yWriter, Dabble), writing apps, software, and tools? Why do you recommend them? And which one is your all-time favorite that you cannot live without and use daily or at…

What I’m Reading: Magical Bakery Series

I’ve found a new fantasy/mystery series, this one by Bailey Cates. It’s about a woman who moves to Savannah (Georgia) to start over. She buys into her aunt’s new bakery and learns that everyone in her family is a witch. In the first book, Brownies & Broomsticks, a grouchy customer is found murdered in front…

Insecure Writer’s Support Group Post

It’s First Wednesday, so it’s time for a new Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! This month’s question: In this constantly evolving industry, what kind of offering/service do you think the IWSG should consider offering to members? Of course, more services means more work for the good folks who run our site! However, if we’re considering…

More from Chapter 1

How are you enjoying this serialization experiment? I’m going to wrap up Chapter 1 and see what the survey says (as it were)… [[Want me to show you some short cuts then?]] That, as I’ve planned, gets his attention and forestalls a possible argument. ADAM isn’t unreasonable. He’s just a child, like any other flesh…

More Chapter 1 for You

Here’s the next part of our serialized Chapter 1. How’s it working for you? I step through the doorway into this room, finding ADAM “sitting” in an easy chair, reading an old-style paper news report. His avatar is dressed in jeans and a t-shirt advertising our band, Gaoth ón Bhfaiiaige. Tel says it means “Sea…

Still More from Chapter 1

I hope this little behind-the-scenes serialization is entertaining for you. You’re getting to see the initial rough draft, before I go back and polish the chapter for publication. When I disconnect from my physical body, I “see” the electronic world as a grid, with lines connecting various hubs and a glow which is brighter the…

More of Chapter 1

Here’s a bit more from Chapter 1 of Planetscape for you. I hope you’re enjoying the behind-the-scenes look at how an author creates a novel. After breakfast at Lori’s, Tel’s father wanted to see the Japanese gardens, so here we are. I’m sitting this one out, as my leg still hasn’t fully healed. The kidnappers’…