"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
An evil stepmother, three princesses in danger, magical waters, and a helpful lizard with a tail that points to the truth. I'm querying for an agent to represent my Gothic novel, and I publish an eBook for Patrons every time I get a rejection. I just...
After the charming exhibition on Women Samurai, Tenoha changes tune and theme and goes cybernetic on us: their new effort is called Robotland, and has: a section on the history of robots, grouped by theme and following the book; a section on the exploration of...
For the first time in my life, last week I did something weird: I went to see a movie in Japanese. And no, before you get ideas, I do not understand Japanese: it had subtitles. Anyway, the movie was Miyazaki's last effort, The Boy and the...
On this day around 1654, William Kidd was said to be born either in Dundee, Scotland, Greenock or Belfast. He said he came from Dundee in a testimony given to the High Court of Admiralty in 1695 but we know better than to trust him. Kidd...
Talking animals, liminal magic, a Court of fairies where dancing is the most important part of life, and a small almost-human with a crisis of identity who’s trying to navigate it all. Compared to the much more famous Peter Pan and Wendy, I think this...
Talking animals, liminal magic, a Court of fairies where dancing is the most important part of life, and a small almost-human with a crisis of identity who’s trying to navigate it all. Compared to the much more famous Peter Pan and Wendy, I think this...
Rhadamanthus (Ancient Greek: Ῥαδάμανθυς), also transliterated Rhadamanthys because the Greek letter is pronounced in between "u" and "y", was a mythological wise king of Crete according to the Greeks. He was considered the son of Zeus and Europa, and today we take a look at...
Yesterday on my Patreon (and today on the blog) I wrote what I was going to do each time I got a rejection to my query for an agent to represent my novel, which is gifting an eBook to all my middle and upper-tier Patrons...
Dear Patrons of every level and tier, Blog followers and innocent bystanders, I promised I was going to start querying in January, and here I am: yesterday I've officially sent my first query to a prospect agent, which included: - the first twenty pages of the novel; -...
Hatmehit, also transliterated Hatmehyt because we have zero idea of how Ancient Egyptians pronounced anything, was a goddess associated with the city of Djedet in the Nile Delta. Her name means something along the lines of "the Foremost of a shoal", and uses the term...
