Author Archives: Marion

The Third Kind of Magic by Elizabeth Forest

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Marion

Elizabeth Forest and I met several year ago at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. We catch up online and see each other nearly every year at FogCON. Elizabeth has published her first book, The Third Kind of Magic. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Marion

It’s now April, and I’ve read many good books since January, but Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing still stands out as one of the best this year. The story is filled with authentic, complicated people, some of whom are dead. … Continue reading →

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Dive Into Wroldbuilding

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Marion

Tomorrow, March 27, at 4:00 pm Pacific time I will be a guest on Juliette Wade’s Dive Into Worldbuilding program, available via blogspot. Here’s a link, where you can see some previous  episodes. Juliette is an anthropologist, a linguist and … Continue reading →

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A Wrinkle in Time

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Marion

I enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time so much. It was not a movie made from my A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time was read to me by my fourth-grade teacher before I read it myself. We were still … Continue reading →

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The Last Jedi. I Yawned.

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Marion

Spoiler Warning. Somewhere sort of near the end of The last Jedi, a group of rust-bucket desert speeders face off against a bushel of First Order war-machines; fliers, walkers, storm troopers, plus a big old thing called a battering ram … Continue reading →

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Ragged

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Marion

This is my original work. You are welcome to link to it. If you quote from it, give me credit. Commentary:  I think I do achieve the illusion of a non-human main character in this fantasy story. It’s one of … Continue reading →

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Eating My Way Through FOGCon

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Marion

Part of the pleasure of a speculative fiction convention, along with panels and readings, is sitting down with longtime friends and new ones in a bar, a cafe or a restaurant. My title makes it sound like I was a … Continue reading →

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Magic; Who Gets to Wield It?

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Marion

Magic can stand in for a lot of things. It can symbolize trickery and deceit. It can represent art, healing, spectacle; it can be about loss, sacrifice, family and love. In epic fantasy, nearly always, the question about who has … Continue reading →

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The Working Rehearsal

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Marion

Spouse and I listened went to the Sebastopol Library to hear the Santa Rosa Young People’s Chamber Orchestra.  The email notice I got called this event a Dress Rehearsal, but it wasn’t that, as least not by every definition I … Continue reading →

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Running in Slow Motion; A Writing Exercise.

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Marion

My husband and I have this thing we do sometimes where we run toward each other in fake slow motion* –true, silly, very, very dreadfully silly we have been and are, but why will you say that this is bad? … Continue reading →

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