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The Love Books Festival, featuring…Me.
In a month, will cross the river out of Maryland and into nearby Lovettsville, Virginia, where I will set up my first ever author booth at my first ever book festival. Called the Love Books Festival, it will feature about 40 local authors for signings, workshops, and lectures. I myself will only be selling and …
Let the Games Begin
Tomorrow in Paris, the Summer Olympics begin. I have enjoyed the Olympics for as long as I remember. Probably because my mother before me watched them regularly before I came along, and continued that tradition. Personally, I kind of miss having both the Summer and the Winters versions in the same year. A huge amount …
Active Observing
I used to think that observation of the world around was a passive endeavor. If I am at the library looking out the window and it starts to rain, I am observing the rain. The older I get as a writer, the more I realize that this is not observing. At least it is not …
Second Look: The Italics Are My Own
This novella is weird. Odd. Unconventional and difficult to describe. Experimental and dreamy, I knew when I conceived it that it would not be for everyone. In fact I knew it probably would be something very few people would look into, even once I started marketing it. I wrote it anyway. So why did I …
Second Look: There Is Pain Here
To date the most full-fledge fantasy novel I’ve written is There Is Pain Here. I’d call it a sort of historical fantasy, but for the fact that such refers to a specific and established subgenera with characteristics my novel does not have. Nevertheless, it is a fantasy story, and the protagonist is a historical figure: …
Ty Unglebower 