Last week, I was swamped with two opera concerts, my Speculative Fiction writer’s group, and my Barnes & Noble appearance. This week, I’m catching up with interviews by featuring one writer today and one on Thursday. But first, here’s a little sample of Sunday’s concert, where I sang the Otello love duet with tenor Bert Bridgers, accompanied by Justin Sturtz on piano: ****** Today, I’m glad to feature writing parent Brad LaMar, author of the Celtic Mythos series. How many children do you have, and what are their ages? I have two children, Evan is 12 and Paige is 10. How do you find time to write with children in your life? As they have grown over the years they have had progressively improved…
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Last week, I had the privilege of meeting Brian Allen, a local letterpress artisan. His studio was a paper-lover’s dreamworld. Besides the obvious exponential leap in street cred I gained by getting to hold Helvetica (I know!), I was immersed in my very favorite sort of decision: which paper to choose? And, oh, the lore! Brian prints with a genuine 1850s cast iron letterpress. While he was showing me the process and we talked papers and inks and logos — I’ll get back to the logos in a moment — he explained the printerly provenance of upper and lower case and the phrase, “out of sorts.” To all this besides, he has massive talent and also many books filled with paper samples, letterpress and…
Categories: Can't Buy Me Love, letters, longhand, novel, places, publishing, Tea and Crumples, traditions
Tagged: author appearance, helvetica, hipster, letterpress, stationery, tea
One of the best parts of being married to an iconographer is the daily reminder of God stepping into human life and inviting us to dance. I get to watch an egg turn into an image and wine turn into wonder. Or, as this evening, a ceramic egg tray holding the perfect depth of wells for the float that will veil the light shining from the icon. Because while God loves us and always wants to dance, He never uses force to make us believe. The light from heaven has a curtain over it so that God can hide in plain sight and surprise our eyes when we look for Him. Sometime this weekend, I will get to see the icon come alive. I…
Categories: christian, faith, Friday Faith Talk, iconography, icons, spiritual formation, traditions
Tagged: common, eleusa, holy, icon writing, sanctifying, Theotokos
One of my favorite parts of being a writer is the sense of community we establish across the globe. Through writing groups on Facebook, I met debut author Stacy Margaret Allan, who not only writes about realistic characters in one of my favorite genres, but happens to be from one of my favorite places in the world: Fife, Scotland. I am very glad to welcome Stacy today to talk about how she balances writing and family life. I was inspired by her determined use of time to get writing done, and I hope you are, too. Read on, and don’t forget to visit Stacy at the links below! How many children do you have, and what are their ages? My daughter is four years…
Tagged: crime fiction, Fife, interview, mother, places to write, Scotland, Stacy Margaret Allan, writer
