guest blogger Angela Korra'ti [writing]
July 22, 2009
I'd like you to give a welcome to this month's drollerie guest, Angela Korra'ti! Stay tuned...
Jess
For this month on the Drollerie Press Blog Tour, the topic is "summer". We all have been writing on various aspects of the season: what role it plays in our various stories, or how it may influence our writing. For my own part, I'd like to give you all a glimpse of the summer of 1989, the toughest summer that a young Warder-to-be, Christopher MacSimidh, had faced to date in his entire life--and which would stay with him up until the events of _Faerie Blood_.
Thanks for reading, all!
Anna
Christopher MacSimidh, Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 1989
The height of summer should have been a thing of glory. July sunshine slanted off the buildings of downtown Winnipeg, gilding them all in light, and countless tiny fragments of radiance glimmered along the surface of the Assiniboine River. Christopher saw none of it. Even tempered by the breeze off the river, the sun's heat bore down upon his head, in league with his sour mood for all of its brilliance. His feet hurt in their old shoes after hours of walking the docks in the...
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Guest blogger Cindy Lyn Speer [writing]
June 19, 2009
So this month, dear readers, it's time to welcome Cindy Speer, writer extraordinaire -- author of the very good "Chocoltier's Wife" -- to the blog! She's written about fathers in honor of father's day this month, and I hope you all enjoy reading it.
Jess
Fathers are tricky things.
The most prominent father character that I have ever written about is Zorovin. When we meet him, we meet the king of the North Frost Dragons. A few years ago he sent his son to the “other side of the world”, the world where the things and people of magic do not exist. He makes his way to this world to find his son, and because dragons do not exist in our world, he is forced to become a man. The way dragons think and feel and perceive is very different from the way that humans do, and it’s something he’s not comfortable with. But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t love his son:
<i>As Zorovin looked up at the sky, he was struck by how much he missed his son. He remembered TorVanith’s birth. He had wrapped his body...
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Guest Blogger Heather Ingemar [writing]
February 28, 2009
First of all, I'm sorry to those at Drollerie for being late. Today knocked me for a loop, as my dad would say, healthwise. I'm not doing well just for basics. Doing the tiny bits I can when I can -- but anyway, I figured you guys deserved an explanation in brief. Now on to the blog post! This month I have Heather Ingemar discussing how she started out as a writer. Enjoy! And if you want to see my own origin post, head over to Meredith's blog...
Origin Stories blog post, 2/28/09
By Heather S. Ingemar
When people ask, I tell them I've always been a teller of tales.
I did not, however, always know I'd be a writer.
Beginnings are usually rough and full of pot-holes, and mine was no exception. Writing, in the beginning, was difficult at best, though I read like a starving man ate at a feast and possessed a vocabulary above my age-level. That whole grammar thing.... I'll be the first to admit I did not grasp the semantics easily and failed at parsing. But I heard words like music, and putting my thoughts onto paper was natural.
It was even better...
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Guest Blogger Meredith Holmes [writing]
January 31, 2009
Well, the best way to begin is the simplest, usually. My name is Meredith and I'm a writer (everyone: Hi, Meredith!). To get to the nitty gritty, Unseelie is my first published novel and was put out by Drollerie Press in December of 2008. It's an urban fantasy or supernatural romance, depending on how you want to look at it! It began life as a NaNoWriMo (
www.nanowrimo.org) exercise and spawned into three novellas. I self-published through Lulu.com before finding Drollerie. Now, Unseelie is one book instead of three small ones and it's beautiful thanks to Deena's artwork and editing! To check out an excerpt from Unseelie, visit
http://drolleriepress.com/meredith-holmes/excerpt-unseelie/. I'm actually working on a sequel to Unseelie, focusing on one of the secondary characters. The story was my breath for almost three years as I worked on the original novellas and getting it published through Drollerie so the characters are still very vivid and prominent in my thoughts when I sit down to write something new. But the Sidhe and the humans who love them aren't my sole focus as a writer: I'm working on a new series, a trilogy by the looks of things, featuring demons...
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