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Discovering random penguins
We’ve decided to shift focus on this part of our website and move it toward a more interactive community to share our musings and perspectives on life, including lessons-learned and so on about the joys and night-time terrors of writing, publishing and related endeavors. To get things started, here’s a link to a New York Times…
Location, location, location!
My father’s cautionary advice to me upon purchasing a first home. “Nothing else matters, Kath, location, location, location.” It was good advice, I was glad to have it. The advice, it turns out, is relevant to a novel’s setting too, but since Dad had no similar editorial advice, Clark and I learned this literary lesson —…
Gnome wonderment in an Old Growth forest: a true story
While gnomes are not as exciting as cowboys, or vampires, they have a certain air of mystery, perhaps because of their scarcity. In fact, some people believe a dark anti-gnome may also exist, deep in the ancient forests in the still pristine and wild areas known only to Big Foot, called a were-gnome. Recently, I discovered possible…
The Watering Hole: An undead saloon
What’s it like to chat up your characters outside of the book? Sort of like going to a comic-con and seeing someone dressed up like Tucker or Rurik? Maybe… I was mesmerized by his dark eyes and his Russian accent. My face feels hot. Did he just say vampires? I should leave, but my legs…
Lenny: a character (yea, a survivalist, conspiracy theorist, Vampire-killing) interview
Joining us today from the pages of The Cowboy and the Vampire is Lenny, a survivalist and improvised weapons expert with some peculiar political views. He’s the long-time friend of Tucker and is now deeply involved in making weapons capable of dispatching the undead. Hello Lenny, welcome. What did you bring with you today? This?…