• Media Recommendation - Writing

    Podcast Review: Writing Excuses

    Writing Excuses– “Fifteen minutes long, because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart”  Everything a catchphrase for a podcast should be – except accurate. With hosts Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Taylor, and introducing Mary Robinette Kowal in later seasons, this writing podcast (which sometimes strays into the…

  • Media Recommendation - Reading

    The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

    [cryout-column width=”1/3″][/cryout-column] [cryout-column width=”2/3″] [/cryout-column]    As a treat to myself last week, I bought the Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet – it is a companion work to the YouTube series, The  Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It is, for those of you not versed in the Austen-verse, a modern retelling of Pride…