SANDRA
BARRET

Ayaan crouched behind the snow covered boulder to catch her breath. Her own stumbling snow tracks would lead the assassin straight to her...

It’s a brand new year! And that means time to roll out the writing and publishing projects for the new year. This year, my main writing...

Just finished watching the New Year celebration live from London. Lovely fireworks display! …and no, I don’t live there, but watching...

Stumbled on this one the other day and figured I’d share the joy : project unicorn – free YA fiction These two authors share their short...

Now that I have finished various and sundry courses, I’m dusting off my next science fiction story and getting it into shape. This story...

Just to show that blog tours and twitter marketing really do work – I’ve recently stumbled across multiple references to Naomi Clark’s...

I’m testing out Zemanta – a blogging add-in that should recommend links and resources around the web that relate to this post.  So far,...

If you’ve  got the time, this is a great conference to snoop on: http://www.toccon.com/toc2011/public/content/video Good stuff. #publishing

Writer Unboxed has an interesting article by Victoria Mixon on Layering in fiction. The author talks about three types of layering:...

You don’t wanna miss this – more books being given away in the 12 days of Christmas than you can shake a stick at! Go..enter…and...

This thread is starting a nice list of authors I need to get off my backside and actually READ!  This includes: Emma Donahue April...

So a few months back, I treated myself to an ipad. Beyond the fun video apps, I downloaded the major ebook readers (kindle, nook,...

The GeekPornGirl blog has some great stories posted. Whoever she is, she’s got some great writing talent.  I enjoyed Steam and Brandee’s...

Lynn Veihl has a great post today featuring a quick character-building exercise that I’m gonna steal here for one of my current SF WIP...

I’ve been contemplating which book to read next, and I come to my usual delilema – am I looking for an easy read that goes down smooth,...

Reading JC Hutchins blog post on Multimedia and Storytelling and it got me wondering if multimedia is the future of storytelling.  In a...

It’s that time of year again, when writers around the globe roll up their sleeves, hide from their daily todo lists, and bury themselves...

As I mentioned in another post, I’m rereading MZB’s Darkover series.  I love her storylines, use of psi talents, and culture clash...

I confess, I do read amazon book reviews probably more than any other site.  I know there are dedicated lesfic review sites , yahoo...

I put up a few more short stories to the free ebooks page, and that concludes my move from the old website to here! In a few hours, the...