Let the party begin!
There’s been a lot of parties and special days lately. Valentines, St Patty’s Day. The Oscars, the Grammys–at Samhain Publishing they presented the Sammies this past Saturday and there were some great books honoured and celebrated.
We like to celebrate. It gives us a great deal of pleasure to look back at our accomplishments and see [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I do apologize for this post being a tad late today. My connection has been funky off and on for the past couple days.
I hope everyone’s having/had a good holiday!
While I’m not Irish (Welsh/Scottish/German here), I do at least wear green. But where did this day come from? Well, it’s been a national holiday for [...]
Give me some Space…
Fiction, that is. I’m talking about science fiction.
Hi! *waving from Australia*
My name is Yolanda, and this is my very first post here. So I thought it might be nice to introduce myself first. I live in a suburb of Sydney, Australia with my hubby, daughter, and cat. I enjoy writing in a variety of [...]
Dispatch from a middle school dance and a free Kindle/Nook book
Recently, my husband and I were recruited to chaperone a dance at the local middle school. These dances are sponsored by the Student Council and one of our sons is a member, so there was no way we could get out of it. Don’t get me wrong, I like kids. But chaperoning several hundred kids [...]
The Birthday Rule
Can you turn on my cartoons?
I’m hungry. What’s for breakfast?
The puppy’s biting me!
I’m wanna go, too!
Ouch! That hurts.
That’s not the cartoon I wanted to watch.
No. Stop biting me.
Stop biting her!
This game isn’t working.
I don’t like those shoes, I wanna wear these.
Would you pleeaaze stop!
Yeah. That last one is often what I think when I first [...]
Bad guys who should’ve won
Recently I saw the trailer for the upcoming new Robin Hood movie, and it got me thinking about bad guys. Not the baddie turned hero/antihero like Riddick in Pitch Black, but the real bad guy who we should all hope loses in the end.
But there have been a few I kinda wanted to win, like [...]
New addiction
So it’s no secret I’m a big gaming nut. Actually, I’ve met several authors (and readers) who are, too. Well, I’ve found a new game. Okay, maybe not NEW new, but new to me. Age of Conan.
Oh, my God.
The inspiration (especially for fantasy) is unbelievable. The game graphics are intense and absolutely gorgeous. The people [...]
Emoticons and the classics
Writing has evolved in the past years, hasn’t it? Pristine cursive writing has given way to text-messaging and emoticons that say it all. As a writer, I don’t believe the loss of a few adjectives is always a bad thing, but there are times I wonder what the next step will be in terms of [...]
Getting back to what passes for normal
Whew! The holidays are over and I survived. We all survived! We all did survive, right? *looks around to make sure we’re all still here, if weary and slightly plumper*
Now, it’s time for one Teresa Noelle Roberts to get herself back to a normal schedule.
If I can remember what my normal schedule is.
I spent November [...]
Another Auld Lang Syne
Ya gotta love New Year’s Eve. It’s such a very human holiday; a celebration of the hope that springs eternal; a monument to the grand illusion that is Time. It’s a pan-cultural party that belongs to no one religion, or country, or creed and which (thanks in large part to Gregory XIII) for the last [...]
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