FREE for International Short Story Day

Yes, the longest day of the year is devoted to the shortest of stories. Happy summer solstice — how are you spending the longest day of the year? I’m sharing some of my short stories that are available on the net for your reading pleasure, which ought to keep you busy a while: “Homework.” Flash…

BitchBuzz: Jane Eyre’s Everlasting Appeal

A perennial favourite of mine, for sure — especially in the Dame Darcy illo’d version, I wax rhapsodic about the book over at BB: Jane Eyre’s Everlasting Appeal By K.A. Laity This month marks the 164th anniversary of the publication of Charlotte Brontë’s immortal Jane Eyre. Women love Jane—well, a certain kind of women love this heroine….

Tuesday’s Overlooked Films: The Tempest

First a quick link: I am the featured writer interview in the latest Text Novel newsletter: “The world is my bison.” 🙂 TextNovel is one of the places that The Mangrove Legacy appeared before its publication and of course, the new serial Airships and Alchemy can be found there as well as on the serial…

BitchBuzz: World Domination (and bonus fez)

For my latest column, I channel EL Wisty: A Simple Guide to World Domination By K.A. Laity Some people use the holidays to give gifts, bond with families and eat too much. These people will never control the globe. Lots of people have a good string of days off this time of year when they…

Serially Yours

Have you checked out The Mangrove Legacy recently? I only ask because I am thinking about the end of it. It will take some weeks yet, of course, but I can see the resolution now and I am also contemplating polishing it up to send off to one or two places. Like everything I do…

Happy Solstice!

After the darkest night, the sun begins its return. It’s the start of winter but the beginning of the return of the light. Enjoy the season, a good time for contemplation. I hope to do a little more of that — not to mention writing — now that I’m ready to turn in grades. There’s…

Housekeeping

I moved the serial blog, The Mangrove Legacy, to the “new” Blogger format, which is actually no longer new, in the hopes that it would make it easier to add things like “tweet this!” links and so forth. Hasn’t worked out that way, so I’m hesitant shift this blog over because of course there will…

Effortless

In slow increments of about 500 words at a time, my serial novel The Mangrove Legacy, has passed over the 70,000 word threshold. My, my. Break a task into tiny steps and it gets done (eventually, but fairly effortlessly).