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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

T. REX vs. TRICERATOPS

Look closely at the three indentations to the left of my hand. They are tooth marks in this leg bone of a triceratops. Ouch! If you’re wondering, this is a cast, not the real fossil,

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WRITING ANALOG BOOK REVIEWS

Hey guess what, everyone? I’m now a book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction and Fact! If all goes according to plan, my first column is slated to appear in the March/April 2023 issue. Can you

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MY 2022 YEAR IN REVIEW

  I’m pleased to announce that I had a couple of items published in 2022: Etruscan Afterlife appeared in The Reinvented Heart, edited by Cat Rambo & Jenn Brozek The Holy Wars of Mathematics: A

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DINOSAUR?

Dinosaurs are not like children in that you don’t have to say you love all of them equally. For the longest time, whichever ones I was writing about at the moment were the ones I

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THOUGHTS ABOUT NANOWRIMO

National Novel Writing Month is November. It’s when lots of authors set out to write a whole novel, or at least 50,000 words of one, in a single month. Some writers can do so. Some

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I never quite understood this bit of Halloween decor. A skeleton coming out of an egg doesn’t make a lot of sense. But hey it was on sale.

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THE DREADED EDIT LETTER

This isn’t a real edit letter, although when procrastination sets in, an edit letter awaiting a response can feel this old. Let me back up for those who might not know what an edit letter

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WRITERS AND PANELS AND RAPTORS, OH MY!

Ever since my corner of the world shut down in March, 2020, I’ve taken to writing fiction on Zoom in thirty-minute sessions with a bunch of other authors. I knew almost none of them when

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I’LL BE A MULTIVERSE FIRST TIMER

Hey look at the neat new promo piece the talented folks at MultiVerse put together for me! It will be my first time attending and being a panelist at their convention outside Atlanta, Georgia. I

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