Let me tell you about Earl Cooley III

Earl Cooley III went Ahead March 20, 2018.

Sometimes you need to speak about a friendship. I want to tell you about me and Earl Cooley III.

Earl and I knew about each other casually for many years, hailing each other in the halls at ArmadilloCon or at a holiday party. We really got on each other's radar when I started reading his poetry online, and he found a sample of my fantasy when I joined a Clarion write-a-thon to raise money for scholarships. He endeared himself by the simple statement of something along the lines of "Oh, I didn't know about these. This is something special." He was looking at a sample of my third NIGHT CALLS book, which was what I was working on for the sponsored challenge.

Some days you just have to trust that people move into your orbit when the time is right.
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Some of Earl's poetry can be found here--

https://shiva7663.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://www.writerscafe.org/tantivy7663

Women's History Month: An article done on my work, and my contribution to the series

March was Women's History Month, and Australian writer/historian Gillian Polack has invited writers from every imaginable corner of the globe to talk about women writers that are under-appreciated. One of them wrote about the Allie stories.

"What I’d like to talk about, though, is a set of books I wish desperately had been around when I was eleven years old. The series is commonly referred to after its first volume, Night Calls."

This is where you're going with a click:

http://www.gillianpolack.com/womens-history-month-guest-post-by-jennifer-stevenson/

As it turned out, I decided to write for the same blog series, and wrote about Jen's use of magic, sex, and love in her many novels.

"Somewhere in her youth writer Jennifer Stevenson pieced together way too much about betrayal, loss, healing, death, and second chances. Wanting to understand, she soaked up information from family, books, and schools, ending up with advanced degrees in counseling and (I suspect) simultaneously realizing that she knew too much—and too little—about human nature.

"On this journey it looks like she became interested in stories that addressed all the things she valued, and realized that 1) the bass note of her musical universe was the enduring nature of Love, and 2) all forms of human sexuality are real, no-we’re-not-kidding magic."

And here's how you get to this one:

http://www.gillianpolack.com/guest-post-from-katharine-eliska-kimbriel/

There are other wonderful essays written about novelists you may know, and others you have missed. Take a look at the March, 2018 archive and enjoy.