When religion, relationships and sex collide, life gets strange … and sometimes interesting. As a writer, I get to go to all sorts of interesting places (not as many as...
A few months ago, I stumbled across a manga called Glass Masks, an amazing (if sadistic) take on theatre, acting, and the Stanislavsky method of acting (also called Method Acting)....
Friends, I need your help. My eldest cat (16 years old) has a tumor on his side that is swiftly filling with fluid. My vet has never seen anything like...
I’ve been spending a lot of time at Starbucks lately. It’s my go-to writing spot when the tv or cats get too distracting. Since I end up hogging a table...
Welcome to Florida. Where the MidWest and NorthEast have snow, we have this. The pollen’s so bad not even the rain can wash it away. These are some pictures from...
So this is how I ended up with my “Accidental Arizona Salsa” dinner. 1/2 cup quinoa 1 cup chicken stock a dash of Mrs Dash Cook this in a rice...
Inspired by various work environments (past and present), and the people who populated them: Reasons why everyone should work from home! I have a hangnail. It hurts. “Work” is a...
It’s finished! Here is my Act of Whimsy for Jay Lake’s Sequence a Science Fiction Author fundraiser. As promised, I have dressed up as Mega from Transformers Masterforce. Unfortunately, I...
It is a Josie & the Pussycats movie soundtrack morning. As the beats pound through my head, I am resolving failed SQL Server jobs, ftp file problems (they didn’t decrypt...
I just spent a good hour writing a nice blog post on how to hire editors when I suddenly realized, “HEY, that makes an excellent article for the SFWA Bulletin.”...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
