I discovered this poem in part due to Alan Rickman. I loved, loved the movie Truly, Madly, Deeply and his reading of this poem still haunts me. Neruda had written a lot of other amazing things, but this one still resonates. The Dead Woman If suddenly you no longer exist,If suddenly you no longer live,I…
I love poetry. I used to write it constantly, but the words don’t, to misquote Anne Sexton “Swim back to me” in quite that way anymore. Sometimes. I wrote a love poem the other day. I swing back and forth between writing two books right now — one about a Fairy Godmother with PTSD who…
I get weirdly modest, and so put this off to the ninth hour, but. Here it is. I am eligible for awards that touch upon the following: My full-length novel, The Key to All Things, came out this July 2020. It’s gotten some awesome reviews and some meh ones, but no passionately bad ones, so…
I am excited to share with you my schedule for the World Fantasy Convention. I am very mich looking forward to this…if you happen to be going, please join me. 🙂 World Fairy & Folk Tales (Moderator) Sun Nov 1 12:00 PM 2:00 PM How Swordplay in Fantasy has Changed Fri Oct 30 7:00 PM…
I have been having a hard time settling back into writing. I did a lot of procrastiwork, as in, I found every piece of writing I could and added it into one of my Scrivener files. Scrivener, in case you don’t know, has a way of gathering files together…so you can have a file with…
Two amazing people have created a wonderful video. Cameron Bockus did an extremely lovely reading of some excerpts of The Key to All Things. His voice is wonderful…you will love it. BD Cooper is a very talented film maker, and they made such a lovely video. I am honored and over the moon about this!…
The book tour starts today! Special thanks to Godess Fish Tours for their awesome hard work. I’ll be giving away a 25.00 Amazon gift card, so comment often. 🙂 August 10: It’s Raining BooksAugust 11: Fabulous and BrunetteAugust 12: Harlie’s BooksAugust 13: Hope. Dreams. Life… LoveAugust 14: Christine YoungAugust 14: Romance Novel GiveawaysAugust 17: Locks, Hooks and BooksAugust 18: Gimme The Scoop ReviewsAugust…
Hello, there! Two absolutely awesome authors featured me on their blogs yesterday and today! I am super grateful to them for being so wonderful: Mary Robinette Kowal let me ramble on about sword fighting in My Favorite Bit: http://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit-cindy-lynn-speer-talks-about-the-key-to-all-things/ John Scalzi let me tell everyone about the idea that started it all in The Key…
