There’s a scene in the book I have out for beta reading where the main characters have an exchange in a garden. It doesn’t sound like much when I talk about it, but it’s an image still vivid in my mind’s eye. The two of them sitting on the grass… Read the rest...
Author: Beth
Writer, artist, blogger, doll collector, and owner of Ithilear.com.
It’s a strange thing, revisiting characters from a previously-written book.Unlike the fantasy series I’m working on now, I never planned to make this one into a series. It was one book, one idea, stand-alone and done. Until it wasn’t.
The idea came to me as we were in the car,… Read the rest...
Here we are, creeping up to the last days of the month of May. June puts us at the end of the first half of the year, and it’s strange to look back at the past few months and see everything that’s happened.Sometimes it feels like not much has changed,… Read the rest...
I wasn’t planning to write about tea today, but I’ve done a terrible thing and let my post queue run dry. I normally have at least several posts written and ready to go, but the past few weeks have been so busy. In the past week, I finished editing the… Read the rest...
My husband and I are avid gamers. Many modern games allow for the creation of your own custom characters, which means we spend a lot of time bringing our own ideas to life. For me, that means a number of characters from my books end up running around in these… Read the rest...
While gathering a list of questions I’ve been asked so I can put together another Q&A; post, I encountered a few questions that ended up having long-winded answers. One was about if writers need laptops to work, which I already addressed. Another was a little more complicated.
It started as… Read the rest...
I enjoy iced tea on summer days and warm tea in mornings or lazy afternoons, or any time I’m reading or writing. Tea and books just seem to go together well. I guess I’ve always liked tea, though I’ve always been a casual drinker. I never felt like I was… Read the rest...