Early birthday presents
The edits on MAGIC SLAYS are due tomorrow, so today is a work-or-die type of day. We seem to have a lot of those lately. Despite it, I’ve been reading a lot more, because I now have a Kindle. I
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Writer Myths
Castle is officially my favorite show of the year. If you never heard of it, the show features a bestselling crime fiction novelist Richard Castle played by Nathan Fillion. Castle, having concluded his long-running series by murdering its hero, Storm,
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Will Somebody Think of the Children?
Why is it that my threshold for censoring the books is so much lower that it is for the visual media?
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Christmas, gifts, and romance*
Thank you so much to everyone for their Merry Christmas wishes. We had an awesome holiday. The dinner turned out well, everyone was happy with their presents and we all had a nice relaxing Christmas day. Gordon and the kids
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Lamb roast is buried under my special herb rub. Shrimp is thawing very slowly in the fridge. I have tea. Working to finish up this one scene and then I am off for the two days of Christmas fun. For
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Andrea
Sam, one of the readers of this blog, took a stage make-up class this semester and decided to do Andrea’s beastkin face. She says, “We had the assignment of picking a character from a book that we could make a
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Mishka Cake
Cake Mishka By popular demand translation of the recipe for Cake Bear. Originally posted at Good Cook.ru , all rights remain with original author. Recipe by Yana Rofman, who says “This recipe is from our neighbor, Klavdia Moiseevna. I keep
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The Story of the Fryer and dessert
Being a Southern Russian, I was taught early on that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. If I wanted to get married, I better learn to cook. Or else. So I learned to cook. Especially deserts.
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Website Updates
Two hours on website updates. Argh. ARGH. But MAGIC SLAYS and HEXED now have their own pages and the countdown widget is back in the text form. Sorry, the picture one was really slowing down the site for some odd
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