Archive for December, 2010

2010 in review: Orisha’s Gift

December 16, 2010 in writing
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Before I close out this year, I thought I’d revisit some of my stories and characters. Nisha from the Orisha’s Gift series is my favourite. She almost doesn’t feel as if I created her; it’s more like she just showed up and I took notes. Originally she appeared in the Aftershock collection, which is a [...]

  • But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. ~Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ~Robertson Davies, Tempest Tost
  • "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
  • Sex is important because it is central to being human, because it intersects everything else, because it is the physical realm's metaphor for the chaos and texture of our spiritual and psychological lives. Sallie Tisdale, talk Dirty to me
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