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Flashback Friday: Don’t Bite the Sun
This week’s Flashback Friday: Don’t Bite the Sun by the late Tanith Lee.A few days ago (May 24th), Tanith Lee passed after a long battle with cancer. She was an author that I discovered in high school,...
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Flashback Friday: My First Doctor
This week’s Flashback Friday: My First Doctor.This post is Doctor Who themed in honor of Anglicon 2015, which is where I currently am this weekend.I’m way behind the curve here.Growing up, we didn’t...
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Flashback Friday: Franchise Novels
This week’s Flashback Friday: Franchise Novels. I’m happy to have author April Daniels here for a guest post on how franchise novels influenced her as a writer and taught her to never be ashamed of...
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Flashback Friday: Bridge to Terabithia
This week’s Flashback Friday: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. While not normally listed or thought of as fantasy novel, this book certainly has fantastical elements to it. We read Bridge to...
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Flashback Friday: Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
This week’s Flashback Friday: Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed aka The Naming of Names by Ray Bradbury.When I first read this short story, it was titled “Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed,” rather than...
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Flashback Friday: My First Con
This week’s Flashback Friday: My First Con. Seems only fitting since I’m currently at WorldCon.I was 17 when I attended my first writing convention. I drove myself from Houston to Austin for...
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Flashback Friday: The Giver
This week’s Flashback Friday: The Giver by Lois Lowry.The Giver is one of those classic sci-fi novels that tops the Banned Book List annually and shocks parents everywhere for daring to talk about...
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Flashback Friday: Moving
This week’s Flashback Friday: Moving….Rather than a lengthy Flashback Friday post on something literary, I’m going to Flashback to our first day in Seattle, WA…Me, circa 1999. Age 21.No, not the...
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Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix
This week’s Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix Cats & Netflix…not really a Flashback Friday so much as a Flashback to last week. I have no real reason to have this categorized as a Flashback...
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Flashback Friday: Back to the Future
This week’s Flashback Friday: Back to the Future Since everyone else is looking at Back to the Future this week and having such a fabulous time with it, I wanted to jump on board.The first film came...
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Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMo
This week’s Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMoMy first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) was back in 2008. I wrote what would later become The Eldest Silence–a first draft of 61,870 words.It was a mad...
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Flashback Friday: Dear America
This week’s Flashback Friday: Dear AmericaDear America,You’ve probably seen it on social media as it’s making the rounds, but in the early days of World War II, we turned away Jewish refugees seeking...
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Flashback Friday: A Look Back
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Look Back.Today begins our Joy to the Worlds Book Tour.If you’d told me ten years or even five years ago that I’d be driving around the Pacific Northwest with three...
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Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Some folks are probably asking what in the world does A Christmas Carol have to do with science fiction and fantasy?This classic is...
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Flashback Friday: Christmas Past
This week’s Flashback Friday: Christmas Past The first Christmas I remember involved a fake Cabbage Patch doll–fake because we were really poor and my family couldn’t afford the $40 or $50 stores were...
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Flashback Friday: A New Year
This week’s Flashback Friday: A New Year!Flashbacks are typically about looking back, but why do we bother if not to find our way forward? I’m a firm believer that the decisions and events of our past...
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Flashback Friday: Good Faeries, Bad Faeries
This week’s Flashback Friday: Good Faeries, Bad Faeries by Brian Froud. My first exposure to the land of Brian Froud was through the films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Though at the time, I didn’t...
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Flashback Friday: To Kill a Mockingbird
This week’s Flashback Friday: To Kill A Mockingbird by the recently late Harper Lee.EDIT: This post was originally made on November 28, 2014. I made it before the release of Amaskan’s Blood and without...
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FF: Evoking an Emotional Response
This week’s Flashback Friday: Evoking an Emotional Response I love that music can evoke such an emotional response in me. It’s one of the reasons that both myself and my husband were music majors for...
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FF: American Gods
This week’s Flashback Friday: American Gods by Neil GaimanAfter the scariness of Super Tuesday, Neil was excited to share the news about Wonderful Wednesday–as in the character from American Gods,...
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