The Ceiling Dance by Fred Astaire
I do so love Fred Astaire. The dance starts at 1:56 so jump ahead to that. Now… if you want to see how he did that.
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January 2012
Coral beads and Christmas
For Christmas, I got a box. I did not know what was in the box, but it was from my parents and Rob’s parents, so I knew it was likely to be nifty. It is beautiful and has a inlay of ivory on the cover. Rob cautioned me that the box was delicate to open.
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Jim C. Hines strikes a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers)
Jim Hines makes a ton of intelligent posts and this is one that I think everyone should read. He talks about women and the way they are posed in fantasy cover art. That’s not quite accurate… He poses as women on fantasy covers. Insight and hilarity ensue. A while back, we had a discussion on the
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Glamour in Glass: The Carlton House Red Room
Today’s teaser for Glamour in Glass is a scenic location. The Carlton House Red drawing room, which appears in Chapter 1. As the Prince Regent led her out of the Red Room, Jane felt all the eyes of those assembled fall upon her, and under their gaze the unequal nature of her station magnified. The Carlton House was
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Serenading Grandma
Meet my 106-year old Grandma. My dad, on fiddle, and his friend stopped by to play for her today. I learned that my great-grandfather played the fiddle. After the camera was off, I also found out that Grandma used to play the slide guitar. What’s really crazy? I recorded this on my phone and Grandma
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Glamour in Glass: Lady Hertford’s claret velvet dress
Yesterday, I showed you a sneak peek of Glamour in Glass through a picture of Jane’s dove grey silk dress. She thought it seemed dingy by comparison… to what? To this dress. The dove silk which had seemed so fine when she had commissioned it last summer now seemed dingy by comparison to gowns such as
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Glamour in Glass Teasers in Pictorial Form
In three months, Glamour in Glass, will hit the book stores. The first chapter is in the trade paperback of Shades of Milk and Honey, so you’ve already had a little bit of a teaser. Since one of the things that attracts me to the Regency are the pretty, pretty clothes, I’m going to offer you
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Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna » Writing Excuses
Let’s build the plants and animals for your science fiction or fantasy book! We begin with a discussion about naming, and about deciding how much evolutionary biology to put into creating cool beasties. We also talk about planning a food chain, building around water, and considering other resources (especially wood, for growing fantasy civilizations.) Other
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Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad » Writing Excuses
Welcome to the new season of Writing Excuses! Let’s start with a trip to the dark side! How do you take a good character and make them evil? And why would you want to do this? Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard answer that second question first, and then walk you through the process of doing
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First lines of 2011
This is one of my favorite memes. It’s a look at the last year, through the first line of my first blog post of each month. Oh, the things one runs across while researching. I have, of late, been pondering the rituals of mourning. I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I’ll be attending Baycon this year as
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Happy Newish Year
Here we are nearly a week into the New Year and I haven’t posted a thing. You might wonder why. That would be a little thing called Stomach Flu. Now, I don’t want you to think that I’ve been sick for the last two weeks. No, no… It’s a plague that swept through my family,