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Cover reveal for Valknut: The Binding
My poor blog has languished over the last two weeks and I apologize for that. But I have an excuse. (Don’t we always have an excuse?) I’ve been working hard on the final touches of my urban fantasy thriller, Valknut: The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Marie's Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Books, Fenrir, fiction, Norse, Norse mythology, Odin, urban fantasy
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I can’t believe this happened to me (or “Nightmare Makeover”)
I didn’t get a blog written this weekend. I didn’t get my copyediting done either. It wasn’t my fault, though. See, I went out to check the mail yesterday afternoon, and I heard this noise behind me. The slow clomp-drag-clomp-drag … Continue reading
Posted in humor, Life
Tagged Halloween, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, zombies
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Halloween’s not all about being wicked…
This beautiful Halloween story came in from Catherine Hedge, who doesn’t yet have a blog. I decided to use it as a guest post. Reading her story and the comment from Merry Simmons, I start to feel that there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Life
Tagged Halloween, Halloween costume, nostalgia, Ray Bradbury
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Fenrir: Monster or simply misunderstood?
As a member of Sommer Leigh’s League of Monstrologists, I’m going to tell you about Fenrir, the great wolf of Norse mythology. Even if you’re not a fan of Norse mythology, you’ve probably heard of Loki. He’s shown up in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Myth in fiction, Writing
Tagged Asgard, Fenrir, fiction, Gleipnir, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Loki, monster, norn, norse myth, Norse mythology, Odin
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Pondering the whims of editors (a history of Marie’s “Rose in Winter”)
If you’ve visited my site recently, you might have noticed Vanessa Chan’s lovely artwork in my sidebar. This is actually the cover of my newly published e-book, Rose in Winter, a 20-page short story that was originally published in Marion … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Writing
Tagged Anthology, fantasy, high fantasy, Marion Zimmer Bradley, self-publish, Short story, Sword and Sorceress series
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Welcome to the October country – Giveaway (Or “I wanna be Ray Bradbury”)
It makes perfect sense that Halloween should come at the end of October, the month when our gardens die and the birds flee. When we shiver in our last breath of sunlit air before scurrying into our caves to watch … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, Ruminations
Tagged Halloween, October, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Marie Meets the Publishing Industry: Do I wanna be a publisher?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the shock I felt when I emerged from my writing cave to find that the publishing world had gone mad. I’ve (mostly) recovered from that trauma and have been pondering the question: “So what are … Continue reading
Borrowed Ruminations on Shannon Mayer’s “Sundered”
Today, I’m doing something a little different. I have asked Author Merry Simmons to guest post a review of Shannon Mayer’s debut novel, Sundered. Merry began her career writing for science fiction and fantasy markets and has recently turned to … Continue reading
Digitization of Us All (or “The End of Civilization”)
Last week, I droned on and on about how much I love using my iPad as an e-reader. I had good reasons, too. Admit it. And I’ll stand behind them for my own selfish reasons. But there’s a part of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Life
Tagged Art, digitize, e-books, IPad, Literature, music, Planet of the Apes
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Marie Loughin's "I WANNA BE . . ." 
Ruminations on Spam
Those of you who don’t maintain a blog may not know this, but there are people out there who think it’s fun or somehow productive to spam comments on blog posts. The spam never seems to have anything to do … Continue reading →