Rosemary Jones's Blog

• Taking to the skies with NaNoWriMo

  November 3, 2009

  • "It's fun," insisted fellow writer Nathan Crowder so I signed up for my first NaNoWriMo. This month, I'm already committed to doing a short story for Crowder's Cobalt City Christmas Carol chapbook (try saying that three times fast!). Also I'm expecting the revisions for my story appearing Apex's Close Encounters of the Urban Kind next summer.But Nate's a persuasive guy and sometime last ...
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• Collecting the Oz books: gorgeous art and great stories

  October 14, 2009

  • L. Frank Baum's original fourteen Oz novels create an imaginary world filled with fantastical creatures and pragmatic little girls. While W.W. Denslow brought an Arts-and-Crafts sensibility to the original Wizard of Oz, the more graceful art of John R. Neill created the "look of Oz" for more than half of century. Long after Baum's death, Neill continued to be the illustrator of Oz, ...
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• Writing, D&D, and other questions answered in a perpetual interview at Loremaster.org

  September 30, 2009

  • Matt James has created a "perpetual interview" with the authors and game designers who play in the Forgotten Realms.Got a question for the Realms' creator Ed Greenwood? Or for me about writing for Wizards? Just follow Matt's directions and your question will be mailed to the author of your choice, answered, and then posted on the loremaster.org site. It's a lot of fun to pick other ...
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