This is the tenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them. Club Freddy’s eyes widened as he watched Vanessa sashay out of her bedroom a few nights later. WOW, he signed, using his facial features to also to […]
Category: Reading and Writing
Stuff I’ve written about writing and reading in particular.
Note (The Magician – Chapter Nine)
This is the ninth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them. Note Vanessa’s new advisor, Dr. Jenkins, was also the professor for one of her graduate classes. The professor had sent everyone the evaluations she had done on […]
Rankins (The Magician – Chapter Eight)
This is the eighth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Rankins Ophelia Rankin Stoneburner was beaming at the two women as they came up the front porch stairs. She stepped forward and greeted them both with hugs […]
Persist
Anyone who knows me knows that I wear several bracelets. It’s something I started doing a few years ago, mainly because I wanted to express myself, but also because some have words I wanted to focus on. I’ve mentioned them in a few blogs posts here as well. One of the words I have on […]
Halloween Town: The Newest Residents
This is a story about my Halloween Town. I used to put a description of the origins of my villages on every post about my villages, but since I have a whole created page about the Village Stories I have written, Check it out there if you have no idea what my Halloween Town is. […]
Allium (The Magician – Chapter Seven)
This is the seventh chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Allium It would not do to ruminate on a long-missing family member, Vanessa thought as she stared off into the distance through her window on the train. […]
Nestor (The Magician – Chapter Six)
This is the sixth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Nestor Vanessa was unaware she had been spoken of in such a fashion as she rode the elevated train across the city. She was heading from her […]
The End
Some in the writing world are already aware of this about me, but not everyone is. Often, I write the ending of my books before I write much of the beginning. Sometimes, I do write other parts first. But more often than not, I have the ending finished before I have most of the book […]
Laundromat (The Magician – Chapter Five)
This is the fifth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Want to listen to this instead of read it? Check out M. Ray Davis’ podcasted version! Laundromat The laundromat in one of the older neighborhoods of the city […]
Return (The Magician – Chapter Four)
This is the fourth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Return Everyone who was involved in Malatesta’s Traveling Show dynamically accepted the news that they were ending their shows in the old country. After the final cities […]