By Jan S. Gephardt Our culture glorifies summer as the primary reading season. Perhaps based on the illusion that Americans still take vacations. And that they leave their electronic umbilicals behind, and read books on the beach instead. Maybe that still happens sometimes. But for me, winter is the perfect reading season. Like Flaubert, I love to curl up with a good book on a chilly evening. It’s my favorite evening nightcap. It’s also my preferred way to wake up….
By G. S. Norwood I love pottery. Jan and I grew up in a house where Mom used Roseville to store the bacon drippings she kept on the stove. We used to go to street fairs and art festivals like other families went shopping for shoes. Dreams and conventional solutions I bought my first tea mug when I was in college. Shortly after, I bought a really cool cookie jar, and after that it was off to the races. I’d…
By Jan S. Gephardt Let me tell you about creating a cover with Chaz Kemp. My official title is Chief Cat Herder and Manager of Weirdness (it’s even on my business card). But among all the things I do for Weird Sisters Publishing, one of my favorite roles is Art Director. Book and magazine design have remained key interests of mine since well before college (remember I used to make books by hand, back in ancient days). Nowadays, it’s my…
By G. S. Norwood G. S . Norwood peels back several different layers of history and mentions several projects in this post. Watch for her projects-in-progress over the coming months and years. Her Route 66 research in 2007 was part of her development work on a novel project which she has recently revived. If you haven’t read Deep Ellum Pawn, the first of her ongoing urban fantasy series set in the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, TX, you’re missing a…