I mentioned that I was pondering the way our world provides lots of cautionary tales for parents, but not for children. Here is the resul...

"The Hum of Refuge," a piece of flash fiction I wrote some time ago (some of you may remember it--it involves both razor wire ...

I was talking with a friend about fairy tales lately. Among many other purposes, fairy tales once provided children with memorable warnin...

I just noticed that, after a long absence, Christie of the lovely blog Spinning Straw into Gold   has posted again. Away I went to read the...

My manuscript is progressing. Right now I have about 13,000 words, and my modern-day heroine has been successfully kidnapped by a folkta...

It can sometimes seem as though would-be artists (including writers) cultivate chaos, doubt, and drama in their own lives because they thin...

I have been wanting to (a). focus on fiction in a more disciplined way, and (b). be pushed to improve my writing. Over Christmas I deci...

I just finished my Advanced Reading copy (yes, it does make me feel delightfully important to be the recipient of an Advanced Rea...

I've been reading reviews and other articles on Suzannah Rowntree's blog for a while now, and was interested to hear that she is ...

1.  *** This Advent is going by swiftly, as all Advents seem to do ever since I reached adulthood. I remember how long the weeks befo...

I am simultaneously reading two books right now. One is Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (this is a reread for me) and the other is A...

A short story by Anna Ilona Mussmann This is something that I wrote two years ago and have recently edited. It's a bit of light f...