When I was in college, I was introduced to the works of Marion Zimmer Bradley; one of my favorite professors recommended Mists of Avalon with "I stayed up the whole night reading it!!"...and given that she was the most intelligent woman I'd ever met, I went out that day and got Mists...and also stayed up … Continue reading Marion Zimmer Bradley
to REALLY catch up:
Ahem. Here's the "covers" I've done for my Hardy Boys fanfic. I just love CreateSpace for being able to print copies of these things for my own personal use -- but what's really fried my mind is when I posted them over on Facebook...and Mom and my sister Deb demanded their own copies. And then … Continue reading to REALLY catch up:
whine whine rant rant
just to catch up. i had to leave my job with Medco/Express Scripts back in September -- it had gotten to the point of Final Written Warning, either resign or be fired, because nothing was changing in terms of my health & constant call-offs & extended bathroom runs. All the surgeries left me with short-gut … Continue reading whine whine rant rant
So…let’s just post some cute cat pics
Cute cats being my writing buddies Puck & Frodo, both of whom have gone over the Rainbow Bridge. I lost Frodo last Summer, Puck three years ago. But I still feel them around the apartment -- both Brett and I have. They were warm, purring weights on the bed at night and all during the … Continue reading So…let’s just post some cute cat pics
delays, delays
delays, delays, delays...going back and re-fixing formatting AGAIN. Evidently CreateSpace has issues with Scrivener's compiling, or Scrivener's compiling has bugs that are causing problems. Joy. *stomps off, cussing* ANYWAY....meet Karma.
The Severed Earth — teaser/sample chapter!
The full first section, behind the cut! The Severed Earth will be out on Amazon this week! ________________ His mother was dead, but he hadn’t killed her.Vão stared into the hazy black-speckled sky. Crows circled his parents’ house and spiraled in the updrafts. Dead, gone, broken. Everything had been swept away on the wings of … Continue reading The Severed Earth — teaser/sample chapter!
Facebook!
I now have a "page" for my writer-self, separate from my private personal page. Anyone who's on FB, you can find the page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ChrisPrestaValachovic I'm also on Twitter @zenfrodo. I'm almost done with the format edit of Severed Earth! It should be out next week, end of June at the latest! (Currently, I'm sick, … Continue reading Facebook!
Book Cover for Severed Earth!
After seeing all the warnings about "YOU MUST HAVE YOUR COVER PROFESSIONALLY DONE"...and seeing what all those giving the advice considered "good" book covers...and seeing that the professionals charge upwards of $500+ to do said cover... Screw THAT. I've had art & design classes. I've impressed the hell out of my teachers in those classes. … Continue reading Book Cover for Severed Earth!
Good news!
(first...yeah, I deleted that last entry. Just too much to go into now. But things have eased up a little.) Anyway...after getting nothing but conflicting advice & information about how to publish...after several years of writing, editing, tearing my heart out, dealing with all the health issues...I'm finally saying SCREW IT and going the self-publish … Continue reading Good news!
Catching up.
Just stuff to catch folks up: We lost Frodo at the beginning of the summer. My other buddy kitty, the kitten who was a warm purring weight on my side at night, who purred and napped with me all through all the health bullshit of the last few years, died the day after Memorial Day … Continue reading Catching up.
Across The Shadows 
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