Worlds within worlds
I had the pleasure this week of being interviewed on Athena Elizabeth‘s “Sunday Brunch” blog, where we talked about my novel, Memoirs of a Synth: Gold Record, the SPSFC competition (where I took fourth place), my thoughts on writing, and a few other things! Check it out: Sunday Brunch Author Interview Series: Leigh Saunders (And don’t you just love my “official author photo” by the wonderful digital artist, parrotdolphin? I saw this image in her Read More …
One of my writing mentors often says that the way to get past writer’s block, is just to write the next line, even if you don’t know where it will take you. I often think of it as just taking the next step while staring out across the trackless desert sands from atop a camel’s back, but that’s just the image I’ve created for myself. When I wrote Memoirs of a Synth: Gold Record, the Read More …
I attended a writing workshop not long ago where thirty writers crowded around large tables listening to four professional editors comment on short stories we had written for them. On some stories the editors agreed, on others they disagreed. It was entertaining, enlightening, and educational. And a whole lot of fun. For one of the stories, we’d been given the following assignment: “…One of the greatest attributes of mankind is our ability to fight for Read More …
A long time ago, in a far-away land… Oops, wrong backstory there. Let’s try this again. Immediately out of high school (that’s where the long ago and far away fits in), my older brother went into the Marine Corps. As a result, when he got out of the Marines and went to college, he was a semester behind his pesky little sister – you guessed it, me. That really aggravated him, but his aggravation has Read More …
Ghost Writer is one of my favorite short stories – and, at the moment, has actually found its way to #10 on the Amazon Kindle Horror list in Italy, rubbing elbows with Stephen King and Anne Rice. I’m thrilled and honored! I don’t often write stories about other writers, but when a writer-friend of mine developed the unsettling habit of dropping out of sight for unspecified stretches of time, looking for a little peace and quiet while working on her Read More …
I must admit, I’ve never done research for a story in quite the same way as I did for this one – actually sitting down to dinner and taking notes of the flavors as I went along! But it was worth it – or at least Nereus, the sea-god who is the central figure in this story seems to think so! The One That Got Away a short story The search for an exiled sea Read More …
I was very happy a few days ago when I read the NASA report that the Voyager spacecraft are at the edge of the solar system, and about to enter interstellar space. Why? Because I remember when they took off – I was in high school, and wrote a report for my English class. My report would have been much better if I’d had access to resources like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Voyager mission page; Read More …