Hello, and happy spring! After weeks of snow and ice, it’s now pushing 80 here. No one, including the trees, knows what to make of this madness. I recently revisited an adolescent fantasy favorite, so of course I had to share. But first, speaking of sharing, I wanted to share that I’m working on a […]
Read more "Rediscovering an urban fantasy favorite"Hello there! Exciting news! The Kickstarter is live! This is for a special illustrated, boxed set edition of The Midnight Land. It has tiers starting at $1 for a brand-new, Kickstarter-exclusive short story, and going on up to both the hardback and paperback boxed sets. It also includes the release of the audiobook. Why, you might ask, do a […]
Read more "The Kickstarter for “The Midnight Land” is now live!"Happy last day of May! I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been (very) slowly making progress on the audiobook of The Midnight Land. I actually recorded it a couple of years ago, but what with one thing and another, I only edited the first half of it. I’m now (very) slowly editing the second half of it […]
Read more "Who knew (word) stress could be so stressful?"Hi Everyone! Star Wars Day has already come and gone, and Towel Day is coming right up! Those are both great holidays celebrating great fantasy (let’s be honest: Star Wars and Hitchhiker’s Guide are both fantasy) worlds, but I want to take a moment to celebrate one of my personal favorite fantasy worlds: Terre d’Ange. Terre d’Ange is the world where the Kushiel’s […]
Read more "The book that restored my faith in fantasy"Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Pollenocalypse! At least if you live in the Southeast of the US. Everything is a slightly sinister of yellow-green, and we can’t stop sneezing. The downside of living in a region with lush tree growth everywhere. Okay, on with the updates. First of all, the thing I’ve been talking about […]
Read more "The long-promised Kickstarter is (almost) here!"Hi All! Wow, we’re midway through March already! I’m not sure where we are on the lion-lamb continuum that this month is supposed to represent, but supposedly we might get hit by yet another storm tomorrow? The weather-related excitement continues! It’s been a busy winter/spring for me so far, but I’m hoping things will be […]
Read more "“The Hobbit” and “The Forest is the Path”: This Month’s Reading Recommendations"Plus a peek at the psyche of my most obstreperous heroine Hi All! I hope you’re having a good August. After a Tatooine-like start to the summer here in NC, we got hit by a wave of storms, including a hurricane, which has transformed our desert into a slime-mold-covered swamp. I half-expect to see Yoda […]
Read more "What’s your favorite Shannara series?"Hi All! After a few days where North Carolina appeared to have transformed into the desert planet of Arrakis, we’ve finally gotten some rain and some cooler weather. Will it be too late for my camellias? I guess we’ll find out. My poor April Remembered camellia Last time I talked about my character Dasha’s MBTI type […]
Read more "When it turns out you’re the opposite of who you think you are…"Hi All! Soooo, I wrote this whole long post earlier today. It was poignant, it was insightful, it was funny…it disappeared into the ether, never to return, when I tried to send it. That is, of course, 100% my own fault. I knew my email program had a tendency not to back things up well. […]
Read more "Say what? How criticism is a special gift (and how I did something stupid while writing this post)"Hello! It’s another warm Saturday here in North Carolina, so I’m looking forward to another deep and hopefully refreshing dive into my characters’ psyches. I thought it would be fun–well, fun for me, at least–to put my somewhat dubious side-quest reading into psychology and personality types to use this summer in an examination of my […]
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E. P. Clark: Author, Book Reviewer, and All-Around Literary Handiwoman 