Kate Flournoy

You know, this is actually a very valid concern. As I believe I have said before, there is a difference between what we write and what we promote. That being said, I have an opinion— treat it as such. 😀 I am not one to say whether or not we should have cursing in our stories and have my opinion treated as gospel, as I am a human being, and…[Read more]

Wow, thanks guys. Both of you made really good points. @Daeus— a timesaber? How would that work? That sounds really cool. And thanks for the tip about keeping the technology ahead of our time. I’d actually given a fair amount of thought to that. I mean, the world in my novel (‘Operation Nebula’) is basically centered around one giant…[Read more]

@Rosey. Yeah, you’re right, actually. It sort of gave a twist to the rule, maybe playing with breaking it, but in the end it worked out amazingly. You’ve never read the Lord of the Rings?!!!? Oh, you should! You don’t know what you’re missing.

Did you mean Anne of Windy Poplars? By Lucy Maude Montgomery? Why— because ‘a C always looks so smug’? 😉

Well… I have both Irish and Scottish blood on my mom’s side, Cherokee and Huguenot blood on my daddy’s side, and an insatiable affinity for all things Celtic. I don’t think I have just vast reservoirs of knowledge on anything Irish, but I have collected quite a few odd little tidbits here and there. What was your question? Maybe I can answer…[Read more]

It was a compliment, Ezra. You should be happy. People appreciate wit.

We’re in the same boat there! This is the only such site I have ever been a part of, and I don’t know whether you’d consider this social media. Frankly, I just don’t have time. I seem to be consistently short of that… 😛

Amen to that last part, Natalee!
But I have a thought on this. How many of you here have read the Lord of the Rings? It’s my all time favorite book, so I’ll probably be referencing it so much you guys are going to start screaming ‘enough with the Lord of the Rings stuff already!’ so I’m going to take advantage of it before it gets too old.…[Read more]

Wow Sarah, you’re British? Neat! Does that mean you spell color like colour? And honor like honour? And valor like valour? And judgment like judgement? Oh wait… 🙂
I actually get into trouble a lot with that one, because I read a lot of old British books, and for the longest time that’s how I thought those words were really spelled. Gulp. And…[Read more]

Okay. I’m not intimidated. But you didn’t really give us much to go on, Ezra. I mean, what kind of an intro is that? Really. 😛
Well, that you’re Daniel’s totes bestie is pretty descriptive, I guess… but you might have put down some of what follows in implication. Or maybe you shouldn’t have. It might be kind of intimidating after all. But I’ll…[Read more]

First things first, Rachel. An apology is in order. I beg your pardon for being so late in replying. My only excuse (a rather shabby one) is that something seems to have gone wrong with the setting that sends replies to email. They have not been coming into the inbox. I was on my page today, and saw this cute little button stamped with the word…[Read more]

S—sir what? Except for that last part, I agree. And I only don’t agree with that last part because… how can a moose be a count or have anything to do with bologna?

Comedy doesn’t seem to agree with my system.
Huh. Funny. At first I thought Ezra Wilkinson wrote this story in the first person. My mistake. I must have been wrong in that supposition. Yeah. I must have been wrong. Funny. All other evidence points to it.
Yes, he’s definitely a homeschooler. Only a homeschooler would write or even dream of p…[Read more]

Neat— great ideas. I’ll have to admit advertising is the only thing about publishing that scares me. Let me know when you create your blog.

Actually my latest knitting project is one my mom started when she was about sixteen, then gave to me to finish a long time later. It’s a scarf. Gulp. I still haven’t finished it. But I am crocheting an afghan that will probably be finished before I turn one hundred. It’s red and brown and green, and done in a ripple pattern.

Hm… dare I suppose you are thinking specifically of Archie Kennedy?
I think a good way to throw off the reader and not have them guess is to strongly foreshadow that the character is going to die. Then the reader is expecting it when it happens, and is maybe not quite so shocked and devastated, but it will be a very real, heavy, and right…[Read more]

I’ll be on the lookout for references, and explain them to the unenlightened in the audience so you don’t have to. 😀 It’s never good to have to explain your own jokes, is it? 😀 😛
Yes, I can definitely see how your name could be either English or Welsh. Pardon me for pointing it out— I have a fascination with names and their origins that…[Read more]