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Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:26:25 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Sense and Sensibility: A Very Short Review:
Maya said, "by Brenda W. Clough By this point the works of Jane Austen have had a great deal of screen time. They are also making inroads upon the stage, and I went to the Folger Shakespeare Theater‘s production of Sense and Sensibility this month. This..." more
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 12:48:32 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Having Fun With Women Characters in Thunderlord (aka “Jane Austen on Darkover”):
Maya said, "Across genres, we accept the importance of bonds between brothers; I would argue that in speculative fiction, at least, we give less weight to the loyalty and emotional intimacy between sisters. This may be due to the domestic setting for sisterly..." more
Monday, October 3, 2016 11:08:24 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled BVC Announces “Continuing Education” by Kristine Smith:
Maya said, "Continuing Education A Short Story by Kristine Smith A woman seeking a new direction in life returns to school, and learns lessons she never imagined. Buy “Continuing Education” at BVC Ebookstore"
Monday, October 3, 2016 11:08:24 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled BVC Announces “8 rms, full bsmt” by Kristine Smith:
Maya said, "8 rms, full bsmt A Short Story by Kristine Smith Before you sell your home, don’t forget to hire a housecleaner to remove all those nasty demonic presences. Buy 8 rms, full bsmt at BVC Ebookstore"
Monday, October 3, 2016 11:08:24 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled BVC Announces Spoiled Harvest by Leah Cutter:
Maya said, "Spoiled Harvest The Cassie Stories, book 3 by Leah Cutter Cassie cannot turn away her most recent client. She needs the money. Though honestly, trying to find the woman’s damned cat turns her stomach. But the client also carries a rose with..." more
Monday, October 3, 2016 4:40:25 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled X is for (E)xposure:
Maya said, "X is for (E)xposure. (Yeah, so sue me. Or give me an idea of another “X” word to write about.) Before an author publishes a book, they revise it, edit it, copyedit it, proofread it, and format it. Through each of those iterations, the book..." more
Sunday, October 2, 2016 7:18:23 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Dice Tales: Open Doors and Brick Walls:
Maya said, "(This is the thirty-eighth installment of Dice Tales, an ongoing series of posts about RPGs as storytelling.) *** When I was running my Changeling tabletop game, one of the challenges the PCs faced was defeating Herne the Hunter in a hunt — to..." more
Friday, September 30, 2016 11:10:16 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled The Rambling Writer Talks Landscape:
Maya said, " (Photo #1) Those familiar with my writing know that vivid settings are important to my storytelling—whether exotic foreign locales (including invented planets), the glorious wilderness, the shimmering world under the waves, or the flavor..." more
Friday, September 30, 2016 6:34:12 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Alma’s Bookshelf: Changer of Days:
Maya said, "Changer of Days: The making of a novel I am used to this – or I should be, it’s happened to me often enough. A character steps out of the ether, introduces himself or herself if I am lucky, and then proceeds to dictate a story which I..." more
Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:12:00 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled A Tricoastal Woman: Evolution:
Maya said, "Toward the end of my last year in high school, my speech teacher gave us copies of a textbook the district was considering adopting. I only remember one thing about it: in the front was an errata page that said the reference to evolution on page..." more
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 2:57:43 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Writing Nowadays–At Loose Ends:
Maya said, "Currently I’m a writer at loose ends. I have no contracts and no deadlines at the moment. I’m giving myself the month of September off from writing because, what with school starting, is so hectic at my day job. But I’m..." more
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:18:15 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Dear Speculative Fiction: A love letter:
Maya said, "My inestimable agent My inestimable agent, Trodayne Northern, recently decided that what he really would like to have on the new Prentis Agency website he’s building is a series of love letters from his writers to their beloved genres. Here..." more
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:57:36 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled BVC Announces Bundleset #01:
Maya said, "Book View Cafe’s First Bundleset by Doranna Durgin, Irene Radford, Madeleine Robins, Kristine Smith Four BVC authors offer bundles of their most popular novels. Available until October 11, 2016. These ZIP files include both EPUB and MOBI/Kindle..." more
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:57:36 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Tilt!:
Maya said, "Since my teens (possibly even before that, but the facts get lost in the gauze of time) I have occasionally fallen over. Often publicly. The first time I remember was in gym class, where I turned to a classmate, said, “I feel like I’m..." more
Monday, September 26, 2016 8:05:13 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Imposter Syndrome:
Maya said, "Imposter Syndrome. It’s defined (according to wikipedia, which in this case is on target) as: Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome) is a term coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R. Clance and..." more
Sunday, September 25, 2016 8:55:02 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Tea at the Silver Spoon:
Maya said, "Whenever I travel, I like to take afternoon tea in a new place if the opportunity presents. Last summer I was in Spokane, Washington, and had the pleasure of visiting The Silver Spoon Tea House, a charming establishment in an historic Queen Anne..." more
Saturday, September 24, 2016 12:21:03 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Hold Onto the Light: Smile, Honey!:
Maya said, "What do these two exhortations have in common? “Smile! And the world will smile right back.” “If you don’t stop pouting I’ll give you something to pout about.” Yep, in both cases, whoever is being spoken to is not happy. And the chances..." more
Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:34:43 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled The News From 2Dits Farm: Common Ground Country Fair:
Maya said, "As usual, mine is the first car in the lot. Although this field and several adjacent to it will be filled with hundreds of vehicles when I return to the car sometime this afternoon, for now I’m alone in the predawn silence. I turn off the..." more
Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:24:28 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled A Tricoastal Woman: Dream Cars and Others:
Maya said, "When I was sixteen, I developed a passion for a yellow Lincoln Continental convertible with a black leather interior. Not a Corvette, which was the hot car of my youth (why, yes, I did watch Route 66), or one of the adorable tiny English sports cars..." more
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 11:10:28 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled The crows come back:
Maya said, "It’s the first day of autumn. I know this because the first wave of migrant crows came by my house in a gang today, hooting like teenagers, chasing around the neighborhood, celebrating the fresh clean cool dry air of autumn. I got a ziploc..." more
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:14:19 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Supporting A New Writer: We’ve Been There:
Maya said, "Recently, I received this letter from Wendy, a fan with whom I’d been corresponding. It spoke deeply to me, and rather than answer it alone, I asked some of my writer friends to join in a series of round table blogs on the issues raised. If..." more
Monday, September 19, 2016 11:32:21 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled BVC Announces Dragons in the Earth by Judith Tarr:
Maya said, "Dragons in the Earth Horses of the Moon, Book 1 by Judith Tarr Dragons sleep in the earth here. Claire is barely scraping a living on her friend’s ranch near Tucson, Arizona. She looks after the long-abandoned horse facility, makes occasional..." more
Monday, September 19, 2016 4:30:11 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled W is for Workspace:
Maya said, "W is for Workspace. Every author has a preferred workspace. Lucky authors get to work under those conditions on a regular basis. Everyone else figure out ways to make do. A workspace has many elements. First, authors have to have some way of..." more
Sunday, September 18, 2016 6:10:27 AM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Dice Tales: Best-Laid Plans:
Maya said, "(This is the thirty-seventh installment of Dice Tales, an ongoing series of posts about RPGs as storytelling.) *** The best-laid plans of mice and GMs oft go astray. I’ve spent a bunch of posts over the last few months talking about game planning...." more
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:26:25 PM
Maya Bohnhoff wrote a blog post titled Early autumn kayaking:
Maya said, "Rich and I went kayaking again last weekend. It was cold and rainy, typical early October weather in the Chicago area, but the lagoons are always so beautiful that we couldn’t pass up the chance. The Skokie Lagoons go for miles. We..." more