• Before we get to the review, I just want to throw in one little disclaimer about it being “a day late.” Shift work is really great as a secondary job for an author. Typically, it’s not too demanding on the psyche and leaves plenty of room for writing. Unfortunately, it makes it next to nearly…

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  • Recipe: Roasted Chickpeas.

    This Meatless Monday’s recipe is going to be a short and sweet one, as well as muuuuch later than usual. I’ve been on a really weird, more-hours-than-I’d-like work schedule these past few weeks, so I haven’t had much time to play around with a lot of recipes. I have one in my pocket, but I…

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  • My apologies to anyone who was looking forward to a Promotion Friday post yesterday and didn’t get one. Work has been a little loopy thanks to our department’s unofficial boss being on vacation, so I really didn’t have the chance to get to it. But I somehow managed to snag a Saturday off (a rare…

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  • “Humans sometimes penetrated the lower forests in search of the Trailmen. It was one-way traffic. The Trailmen never came in search of them.” The Planet Savers featuring “The Waterfall” by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The world of Darkover is in trouble. Every 48 years, a disease crops up to decimate the native population of the planet…

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  • Recipe: Ultimate Veggie Soup.

    The thing with soup is that I’ve never really felt it was something that warranted a recipe. You mostly just throw things together and, voila! You have soup, and it’s really, really hard to mess it up. Since I’ve been hunkered down to an awful lot of work lately (tomorrow is finally my day off…

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  • Promotion Friday!

    Happy Friday, everyone! You know, even though I usually work on the weekends, there’s still something about Friday that’s thrilling and exciting and a relief. Oh, right. Payday. And the opportunity for people to share with me what they’ve accomplished recently, what they’ve been inspired by, what tools they’ve been utilizing, what books they’ve been…

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  • “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams–not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything.” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of the funny things about my experience with classic literature is that, for a long…

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  • Happy Monday, everyone! Before we all trudge forward into the beginning of a new week, let’s take a moment for the weekly Meatless Monday recipe! Today’s feature is one that’s quickly becoming a staple in my household; I’ve actually got a batch in the oven as I type this up to bring with me to…

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  • Promotion Friday!

    Happy Friday, everyone! Friday can mean a lot of things…payday for some, end of the work week, FNL and pizza nights and new episodes of Comedy Bang Bang. But around here, it also means shameless promotions! Come on in and spread the love about what you’re working on, what you’ve been reading, what you’ve published,…

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  • “Hundreds of yards above us, the Martian sky beckoned.” Skylights by Luther M. Siler If a multi-billionaire approached you and offered to whisk you away to Mars on a top-secret rescue mission, would you accept his offer? Gabriel Southern, an Indiana journalist, does, and thus begins Skylights, a mission to Mars book by my friend…

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