Reason #16 to attend Mountain-Con: Brandon Mull, author of the Fablehaven book series We at Mountain-Con are constantly working to bring you the best convention this side of ... well, anywhere. You never know who will be on the guest list next. This week we have the pleasure of announcing that...
I've spent the last couple of weeks dealing with some unusual (for me) insecurities. One had to do with family, but was indirectly related to being a writer, the other was directly related to writing and led to a realization about how I need to work. I've also been learning that even established...
Sometimes when my friends and I go to the movies as the credits start to roll and we begin talking about what we liked and didn't like about a film, I also tend to have in the back of my head... "This coulda' been a Disney film." What do I mean by that? Well, usually it comes up when I've seen a...
It has come to an end. Sad to think actually, its been coming for so long it just never felt like it actually would. At the age of 12 my mother told me to read a book called 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' I put up a struggle, I was not going read a book because everyone else was reading it....
I fell in love with this book after reading the first sentence. It is: "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." The (very high profile) quote on the cover ("This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.") by J. K. Rowling is spot on. The novel is written entirely in wonderful...
A view from the Edinburgh Castle, September 2006 One of the unexpected, joyful and most rewarding 'side-effects' of foodblogging is the number of new friends I've made, not talking about widening my culinary horizons, knowledge about food and recipe repertoire. Johanna of The Passionate Cook is one...
Wheels and whirligigs wound and purring, toothed gears and gear shafts meshed and whirring, pendulums swinging, cylinders and pistons cyclicly cycling, midst such stuff a boy's mind you'll find flying, most assuredly proclaiming most excitedly rephrasing that song of Ms Andrews her voice...
