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I write fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. Suspense plays an important role in many of the tales; the conflict in those tales is both external and internal. My stories are often placed in dark settings, such as prisons or wartime locations. The mood of the stories, however, is not one of unrelieved gloominess: friendship, heterosexual romance, gay love, and faithful service are recurring themes.

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WRITING ENTRIES AT THIS JOURNAL

Online fiction announcements, online serializations, e-book announcements, and website updates.


DAILY LIFE ENTRIES AT THIS JOURNAL

I write Daily Life entries on various topics, particularly these:

* Writing: Writing, research, self-publishing, and e-books.

* Home: Domestic life, hometown happenings, and travel.

* Simplicity: Simple living, solitude, spirituality, schedules, self-discipline, and the Internet addiction that keeps messing all of this up.

* Mentoring: Apprenticeships, service, training, obedience, and protocol.

* Health: Hypomania, partial sightedness, inflammatory condition, and mobility disability.

* Retro daily life: My old journals, from age eleven onwards.


PRONOUN PREFERENCE

What pronoun I prefer to be addressed by.


THE SUSAN RULES (not scary! not scary!)

As posted by author Susan R. Matthews on 23 June 2007 at HisExcellency, a fan e-mail list devoted to her science fiction. Reprinted with her permission because I thoroughly agree. --DP

The Susan Rules of Engagement, or How I Expect People to Behave In This Group . . .

(1) Critical remarks about something I've said in my novels or said in this group are not personal insults, and I don't take them as such.

(2) Differences of opinion with other people or with the text are not personal insults either, and should not be taken as such (I don't).

(3) Intelligent, articulate, insightful people (like those who read my novels) (hee hee) are naturally passionate about things that have captured their interest. Please play nice.


WORDS TO LIVE BY

"My method and theory of art: I have this desk. When I spend a number of hours per day seated at it, I usually end up having written or drawn something. When I don't sit, I don't write or draw because when the writing or drawing comes around, I am fooling with the dogs, talking on the phone, or fixing the stairs. My artistic production is of higher quality than my imagination, skill, or intelligence would suggest, which leads me to believe that those faculties have very little to do with it. I would not a take a million dollars for that desk."

--Daniel Manus Pinkwater.


"I write every day for at least two hours, and I spend the rest of my time largely in the society of ducks."

--Flannery O'Connor.


"Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing."

--Jerome K. Jerome.