by brenda | Nov 10, 2009 | About Writing, Reading the Wind, Silver Ship and the Sea, Wings of Creation
Pardon the happy little post in advance. It’s a gray day here is Seattle – with a touch of pink sunrise still in the window – but I’m hoping for a good one. A lot of writing is work. By the time a book comes out, I’m two books or more...
by brenda | Nov 4, 2009 | Reading the Wind, Silver Ship and the Sea, Wings of Creation
I’m pleased to announce that Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is the latest winner in the book giveaway. He chose The Silver Ship and the Sea. There are two more drawings left – one this Friday and one on the 10th which is the release date for the hardcover of...
by brenda | Oct 22, 2009 | Interviews, Reading the Wind, Silver Ship and the Sea, social media, Wings of Creation
First, Seattle Geekly does a great podcast. As I’m sure you can guess, they talk about all things Seattle that would interest the slightly more – well, geekly (gaming, conventions, science fiction and fantasy, anime, steampunk, other local events). I...
by brenda | Sep 30, 2009 | Publications, Reading the Wind
I’m pleased to announce that Reading the Wind is out in paperback. In honor of its release, I posted a new story on the Academy of New World Historians website. The new story happens offstage to the action in the book, and is the first part of the overall story...
by brenda | Sep 3, 2009 | Publications, Reading the Wind, Silver Ship and the Sea, Wings of Creation
Writers have the best job in the world. We make stuff up. We daydream and what we daydream becomes real – as a book or a story or a poem. People read our daydreams, our musings, the things that grow out of our subconscious. I really did it this time. It all...
by brenda | May 2, 2009 | News, Reading the Wind, Silver Ship and the Sea
I didn’t set out for these books to be about war, at least not when I wrote The Silver Ship and the Sea. Current events, however, have a way of coloring artistic work, even science fiction that’s being written about a far future. The Iraq War and The...