New Orleans Bookfair Has a 2014 Date!

Will be posting more info as it comes but so far, planning on making this a big weekend in The Big Easy!

Special delivery!

Oooo -Looky looky what came in the mail yesterday. Galley Copies of The Serpent Bearer

Writing is Scary

I purposely woke early this morning to tend to some writing. My goal was to create a snappier synopsis for The Serpent Bearer. The outcome – so far – has been 2 hours of piddling around on the PC as follows: 5:30am – Wake 5:30 – 6:30 – coffee 6:30 – 7:15 – Facebook, Google & occasionally looking at the blank page that is titled synopsis for The Serpent Bearer 7:15 – 7:30 – Decide to blog about how I’m not achieving my goal. Masterful, yes? This is very typical for me as a writer, though. On that rare morning when, my mind is not scattered, thoughts are congealed and I can bang out the proverbial 1500 words that Stephen King says is normal for a writer, I bang out several pages and actually feel like a writer. No, I don’t write every day. I believe there are as many ways to approach writing as there are writers and do not believe in a set routine that breeds success. Oh, well back to work. Do you want me to Google anything for you?

Restoration in the French Quarter

An interesting look at the restoration process of 150 + year old building in the Quarter including balcony & lattice work.

How Do You Voodoo?

Nine Lives Review

One of my wonderful author friends, Mary Olde Fagan has graciously read and reviewed my first baby (no offence to my actual offspring), Nine Lives.  Please check out her blog and review!

 

http://fagan-authorspot.blogspot.com/ 

Technology Friday

Its Technology Friday kids!  Today we will be looking at a everyday household product, the DVD cleaner. 

On the front side of the DVD cleaner it states it is a laser lens cleaner, and the instruction when you pop it into your CD or DVD player welcomes you to the newest, state-of-the-art electronic cleaning system for your sensitive, laser DVD or CD player.

On the flip side of the disk, you  see this interesting, yet familiar structure.

Yes, that is a brush.  A teeny, tiny brush but, a brush nonetheless.

I checked my history on this an brushes go back to the great Egyptian era but were more readily available and became produced in larger quantities beginning in the 1700s’.

So there you have today’s Technology Friday. The brush: Cleaning your shit for centuries!

The Creative Process