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Mom and the Ankylosaurus

Blogging the Mesozoic

Category: Writing Advice, Workshops

MEET TIMIDITY REX IN THE REINVENTED DETECTIVE

I am beyond thrilled to introduce you to Timidity Rex, my fiercely-smart miniature T rex who helps her detective “owner” investigate a dead body in “Murder at the Westminster Dino Show.” While you’re at it,

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RIO HONDO WRITERS’ WORKSHOP 2023

The last week of September found me at Rio Hondo. That’s the awesome writers’ workshop Walter Jon Williams puts on in Northern New Mexico. Look at all these talented writers assembled in an enviable library

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TEACHING GIG!

I am pleased to announce that I have joined the faculty of The Rambo Academy, founded and run by Cat Rambo. I will be teaching a class called The Art of the Book Review. Here

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THOUGHTS ON BOOK REVIEWING

My first book review appeared in Analog just weeks ago. Hope nobody missed it! Amid the excitement of seeing my work in print, I’ve already turned in my next column for the July/August 2023 issue

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MORE OF THE SAME CHARACTERS

Readers sometimes wonder why writers return again and again to the same characters, putting them in new dilemmas after these intrepid heroes already got done saving their family/village/island/universe. Can’t the writers let them have a

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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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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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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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