Tag: Rachel Wilder

  • Join Me Today at the Torquere LiveJournal

    It\’s my day to take over the Torquere Press LiveJournal, Torquere_Social.  I have three posts planned throughout the day about how to get the most out of writing conferences.  Please join me and comment, ask questions, whatever your mood dictates.

  • VACATION!!!

    Well, not quite yet, but Rachel arrives today and I get to pick her up at the airport in the afternoon!!

    We\’re going to the Evanston Writers Workshop Third Annual In the Trenches with the Writer Conference this weekend. Very exciting!

  • Gender Stratification and Worldbuilding, Oh My!

    Join me today at one of my team blogs, LGBT Fantasy Fans and Writers. I share some thoughts about our novel Emerald Fire and accidental gender stratification. Oops! 🙂

  • I\’m excited to report that Burning Bright is now available as a print book, not just an ebook! In celebration of our print release, I\’m blogging at Samhain today.  Join me for \”Reality and Fiction – M/M and BDSM\”.

  • Love\’s a Beach Blog Hop

    Stay tuned for the 17th. I\’ll be participating in the Love\’s a Beach Blog Hop over on Taurus and Taurus. You could win a Nook Touch, signed books, ebooks, and other great prizes. Mark your calendar!

  • Love\’s a Beach Blog Hop

    Stay tuned for the 17th. I\’ll be participating in the Love\’s a Beach Blog Hop over on Taurus and Taurus. You could win a Nook Touch, signed books, ebooks, and other great prizes. Mark your calendar!

  • Monday! Monday! It\’s Monday!

    It\’s the fifth Monday of the month!  I don\’t have any posts anywhere, so I can\’t use that as a topic, and it\’s Monday… which just isn\’t very exciting, right?

    But let\’s take a step back.  We have a lot to be grateful for.  So here\’s a quick list to kick-start your week and so we can remember all the abundance in our lives.

    1.  The internet.  It\’s a wonderful tool for communication!

    2.  Computers in general.  Again, wonderful tools that allow us to type, (so much so that my friends complain when I assign handwritten prompts!).

    3.  Good friends.  Both online and in-person, I am grateful for the connections I\’ve made.

    4.  Our pets.  If you\’re a pet person, you understand.  If you\’re not, you probably don\’t.  And that\’s okay.

    5.  Food in our bellies, roofs over our heads, and money in our pockets.  Abraham Maslow had it right – when the basics are taken care of, we can turn our minds to other tasks.

    For what are you grateful this week?  Tell me in the comments, I\’d love to know.

    I took this picture last October at the Skokie Lagoons in Illinois, USA.
    (Copyright 2011 A. Catherine Noon)

  • Writing with a Collaborator

    I\’m at the Samhain Publishing blog today, talking about writing with a collaborator. I hope you\’ll stop by! 🙂

  • New Blog Today, and a New Job!

    LGBT Fantasy Fans and Writers has launched.  From the \”About Us\” page: \”Welcome to our little corner of the ‘net. This is going to be a blog that appreciates LGBT fantasy in all its forms and incarnations- books, movies, games, art, whatever! Dark, light, urban, epic, romantic, sword and sorcery, classic… We love it all.\”

    Together with Alex Beecroft, Jennifer Thorne, Kay Barisford, Melanie Tushmore, and Violetta Vane, I\’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects – the fantasy genre in all its wonderful variety, and specifically looking at the GLBT subset within it. We will offer flash fiction, essays, and excerpts from our own works. I hope you enjoy!

    My first entry is up today, \”Worldbuilding – M/M Style.\” I talk about some of the unique challenges presented to authors of M/M romance as they venture into creating worlds of their own.  Stop on by!

    Today is also my day at the Writer\’s Retreat Blog, where I talk about new beginnings.

    In addition, I start a new job today.  I\’m very excited.  Wish me luck!

  • Tue Cent Twosday – Research

    The Nine Naughty Novelists blog hosts Rachel and I today and we talk about the pitfalls of research, as well as tips for success.  Join us!  \”Researching Beyond the Internet.\”

  • Join the Two Tauruses today! (and say that 10 times fast…)

    Stop by the Noon and Wilder Blog, Taurus and Taurus, for my thoughts on the perils of research.  I hope you enjoy!

  • Hair Tea – Emerald Fire and Herbs

    In writing, we get to use what we know.  This used to intimidate me (what if I don\’t know anything??) until I realized that\’s my inner critic talking.  I do too know stuff.

    So.  What do I know?

    The airspeed veloc…  Nevermind.  Hair tea!  I know how to make hair tea.  Not tea you drink, though I do know how to make that too, but tea you put on the hair to make it healthy and shiny – and augment the color.  In writing Emerald Fire, Rachel and I got to put that knowledge to use and give it to the Keepers.

    I figured I\’d share some of the secrets today at Torquere Press:

    \”Research and World Building – Teeka’s Special Hair Tea Blend\”

    I hope you have a moment to stop on by!