This past Sunday, good friends of ours lost their 19 month old boy, Jordan. He had a rare condition, which I won’t try to explain here, but even though he faced serious challenges to his health, his older brother, Josh, who has the same condition, is almost 11. In short, Josh has beaten the odds[…]
As this week is the week that the authors on the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 are going to be posting about me, I thought I’d put up a short introduction to me & to my works for those who might come by to see a bit more about who I am. My name is L.B.,[…]
From now until shortly before Christmas, the authors involved in the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 will be collaborating on a joint blog tour. We’ll be focusing each Monday – or thereabouts – on a different author each week. Our hope is to encourage readers who have experienced one or two of us and our work,[…]
With many thanks to Rob Treskillard who designed this for me, I wanted to show some of the fine work he’s done for me on this site. This is the graphic you’ll find under “My Books” at the top of the page. Click on a spine to see the book,and click on the book to[…]
Tomorrow evening I board the plane for Seattle, and on Saturday the Fantasy Fiction Tour 2008 officially begins for Wayne Thomas Batson and me, as we join the other six authors who have an additional stop in Canada on Friday. If you’d like to watch some of the events live, here’s your chance. As the[…]
This is the last of my posts originally written for the Motiv8 website. It caused a bit of a stir there, so I anticipate there may be reactions here. Feel free to comment. With the Tour gearing up to begin in less than two weeks, this might be the last post in our brief series[…]
In the spirit of recycling posts I wrote for the Fantasy Fiction Tour ’08 website, here’s another from a few weeks ago. I believe it was Edith Hamilton in her classic work on mythology that suggested the purpose of the monsters in Greek myths was to give the heroes opportunities to demonstrate their greatness. Ie,[…]
It is interesting how things work, sometimes. The previous post was from Friday, and as the tone of it suggests, I was feeling pretty unsure of where I am as a professional writer and where I am going. That evening when I got home, my wife had picked some movies up from the library. (I’m[…]
When did Tommy Tutone know they were a one hit wonder? (My apologies to those who know multiple Tommy Tutone songs and feel this label has been misapplied.) Much of the audience for my books will be too young to remember Tommy Tutone or “Jenny,” but for those who do, you know as I do[…]
I wrote at the end of May about the beauty of summer when you’re a teacher (which I am) and about the 79 day weekend which I was looking forward to enjoying. Well, weekend’s over. That’s right, even 79 day weekends come to an end at some point. Yesterday, August 14th, school started. If that[…]