Meanwhile, in Rivendell . . .

Hello, all!  As you can tell by the title of the post, I'm here to share a short story I wrote recently. This was my submission for GiraffeCrafts' 2018 Indie e-Con writing contest . If you want to learn a little bit more about it, you can visit the new page "Writing Projects" on my other blog . :) For now, here's the story itself. (I made some very slight edits after sending it in to the contest.) This post will be pretty long, obviously, since I'm posting the whole story (it's a little less than 4790 words). It was a lot of fun to write and I've gotten pretty invested in these characters, I gotta say. I really hope you guys like it!! :) / / / / /  “It’s hot enough to cook breakfast right here on these stones,” Alejandro grumbled.             “Feel free,” Rhiannon replied, not moving her eyes from the track below their vantage point.   Unnecessary though it was, she couldn’t disagree with her ...

I'm indebted to two ladies for this tag: first, to  Hamlette for tagging me; second, to Eva for creating it in the first place. :)  Thanks, ladies! Rules ~ Answer the questions. ~ Tag others as desired. ~ Use the graphic if you wish. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "The Greatest Show": Name a book that’s as entertaining as a circus I personally find The Hundred and One Dalmatians (by Dodie Smith) all kinds of fun.  The delicious setting, the writing, the illustrations . . . it's all perfect. :) "A Million Dreams": Name a book that’s set in a fantastical world Peter Pan (by J.M. Barrie), perhaps? Everything. <3 "Come Alive": Name a book that makes you outrageously happy The Princess Bride (by William Goldman).  It's my happy place.  (Click the link to read my review.) ~"The Other Side: Name a book that changed your mind about something Reading A Morbid Taste for Bones , which is the first book in Ellis Peters' Ch...

Yes, friends, it's going to be my blogging birthday.  In October.  Yes.  My blogiversary. So, why the seemingly-premature post here in June, you ask?  Well, I'm actually planning a few things for this particular blogiversary, and these plans include . . . *drumroll* . . . vlogging . *audience gasps* Yes.  Indeed they do.  You see, I want to do another Ask Me Anything (I've done one before, but it was a while back) and answer it in several (hopefully short) vlogs!  Lord willing and the technology works. ;-P So, your part in all this is to think of questions for me to answer. :D  I'll be trying to keep the videos short, as I said, and I'll let you know whose questions I answer before each video so that you can know which video to watch for the answers to your specific questions. :) Would you be willing to do that?  Thanks loads.  I'd be ever so grateful for whatever you could contribute.  So, ask away!! :)

'Ello, chaps and chappesses! As you may know, Rachel Kovaciny , author of The Man on the Buckskin Horse , Cloaked , and No Match for a Good Story , is set to release the second installment in her Once Upon a Western fairytale retellings anthology in August. And now, I'm pleased to say, she's revealing the cover! But first, howzabout a brief blurb about the story itself? A drifting Civil War veteran tackles the task of figuring out who's been spiking the apple cider at a Kansas dance hall owned by a family with twelve daughters. ^^ First of all, how are people able to condense a whole plot into such a short yet perfectly informative sentence??  Skillz, man.  Second of all, I'm excited to read this! Aaaaandddd, aren't you excited to see the cover?   Okay, okay, here you go: Doesn't that just look like apple cider and barn raisings and doughnuts and all things comfy and country and homey?! Here are all the pertine...

Oh boy, guys.  This is big!  Really, friends.  This news is life-changing. Well, okay, fine, maybe it's not really life-changing , but . . . it has certainly been "an epoch in my life," as Anne Shirley would say.  (She says that somewhere, doesn't she?  Anywho.) Do you want to know what it is?  Very well, I shall tell you. I got to meet up with blogging friends!!!! TWO blogging friends, to be exact: Miss March and  Natalie !!!  And we got to visit for a whole nine days!  IT WAS FREAKING EPIC. Howzabout a little chat with them, eh??  [Olivia in purple , Natalie in blue , and Alyssa (Miss March) in peach. ] Hi, it's Alyssa (otherwise known as Miss March). And this is Natalie. *waves*  Well, I guess someone should explain how this grand occasion came about. Anyone volunteer? I shall try my hand at it.  Alyssa invited us to her house, and we came, and here we are on our last full day together (by ...