“Shocking? What? Why should this concept be shocking?” I hear you ask. To which I counter: why is it not? How is it not, when so many of the fundamental assumptions our society is based on are designed to tell men that they are wild, uncontrollable, savages to be tamed, creatures of undeniable violent instinct […]
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Family friend’s 18th party on Sunday, and it was the family team at work in all our usual roles: Mum on food, Jess on decorations, me on cake, and Em on stand-by/gofer/jack-of-all. Friend wanted a picnic in the park–less clean up, good choice!–and the weather held out, which is not usual for this time of
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I cannot change others, save others or wait for others to change before I change myself. I can’t wait for others to take care of themselves before I take care of myself. I can’t wait for circumstances to change before I take ownership of my own happiness. I can’t wait for others to recognize my
The cover for the SFR Brigade anthology has been released! Isn’t it shiny? 🙂 From the SFR Brigade website: The anthology features nine stories from nine different authors in a variety of styles and settings including space opera, near future, apocalyptic, Earth-based and alien romance. (You may even discover some favorite characters from Science Fiction
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Years ago, when I first started getting serious about writing, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who dabbled in photography. He was rather firmly of the opinion that artist should not charge for art, that no one actually has a right to make a living as an artist, despite being someone who
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So, there’s this fun link (here) where you type in ‘your’ name, and it tells you what you are made of. I typed in my name, and here is the result: Amy Laurens is made of waffles, octopi, and shadows. With a dash of Twitter. Which I take to mean that I am am sweet,
Look! I’m in another anthology! Considering how little writing I’m doing these days, I find this quite exciting :o) Tales from the SFR Brigade will be a free anthology of stories by members of the SFR Brigade, SFR being Science Fiction Romance. There are even a couple of big name authors involved, most notably Linnea
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So, just for the heck of it, I’m practising queries. Actually, also because I’ve dug out Sanctuary again and am plodding onwards with edits. I’m nearly done with Draft 2, and I’m rather hopefully that it will only need up to a Draft 4 before it’s DONE-done. Hopefully. :S Anyway, in the spirit of procrastination
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Yup. Pretty much. 😀 Via @lianabrooks. Read more:If Disney Princess Were RealUnreasonable Expectations 😛Never Interrupt Me While I'm Reading A Book, Yo
So, I think we may have a bit of a tradition of doing mad-cap things during Earth Hour now. Last year was admittedly boring, what with having a one-month-old in the house, but the year before we had 8 baby puppies running around the place, and during Earth Hour we did puppy-feet finger-painting. I’ll dig out
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