Tag: fantasy

So Many YA Books!

ByRachel February 2, 2010 5 Comments
The size of my reading que approaches unbelievable lengths this week. I'm still trying to finish PURE by Terra Elan McVoy--I started this one primarily out of curiosity, to see how an author would handle the Christian faith in a mainstream YA novel about sex and friendship. My search for further volumes of Tanith Lee's CLAIDI JOURNALS turned up empty. Oh, I found them at the library all right,...

Sci Fi, Fantasy Lovers Unite!

ByRachel November 19, 2009 6 Comments
Most Sci Fi/Fantasy lovers agree; our beloved genres take a lot of abuse from the general public. Whether it's outright disdain for the genre, or a passive disregard for it, we've all felt the sting of having our great worlds, stories and concepts dismissed as fringe hobbies for "losers." But what if Sci Fi and Fantasy are already an integral part of our culture--so integral that people would be...

Second Book in Trilogy

ByRachel November 3, 2009 0 Comments
Nano has begun, and so has my feverish dash through a first draft of FLYNN Book II. I find writing the second installment in a trilogy much different from writing the first. Authors usually have a clear idea of the story's beginning and end, but the middle--well--that gets kind of muddy. When written well, second installments can be the filling in the proverbial sandwich--every bit as good and...

Trekking Through the Rockies

ByRachel October 5, 2009 9 Comments
I just finished up my long trek to Colorado for the inaugural year of the Sirens conference, and boy oh boy was it a week of adventure! It was an exercise in socializing, networking, intellectualizing...and survival. The altitude alone took some endurance. Crammed into the car with my husband and parents (our luggage practically spring-loaded the trunk), we made the ear-popping climb to Vail, CO,...

Publications of all sorts

ByRachel September 30, 2009 0 Comments
I got another article published over at Friends of Lulu. If you've ever wanted to know the five most important things about creating graphic works, read it here. Things are getting exciting around here! I'm checking out contests for a couple of my short stories, querying FLYNN, and a friend of mine just launched a small publishing company which is desperately seeking submissions. Just what every...