http://michelledsonnier.com Michelle D. Sonnier, the Author Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:47:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night was packing...  Today is counting down until I hit the road.  I'm headed for ConText 23 in Columbus, Ohio with some of my writing buddies.  We've been planning this since last spring.  I'm all atwitter about mixing and mingling with other writers, attending panels and figuring out ways to ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=175 Have you ever walked into a room and felt sure there was someone there with you, but you were quite obviously alone?  Or heard something fall in the next room, and this time you can’t blame it on the cat because she’s curled up in your lap?  Congratulations, you may ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=169 Water-colored wings and tiny little bodies….  Child height with a jaunty red cap….  Friendly….  Mischievous….  Sometimes malevolent…..  Sometimes called the little folk or our friends (because to speak the name of the fairies was to attract notice and therefore trouble), other times the Sidhe (pronounced Shee), fairies hold a special ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=155 It never fails.  Whenever I’m in the same space with another writer for any length of time, we always start to talk shop.  Just this past weekend, I was at a party and there were some other writer friends of mine there, and of course we started talking about writing as ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=148 It is the eternal conflict of the writer – one must be sure of one’s talent and skill, but not arrogant.  This came to me last night as I was working on a new anthology submission for Soylent Publications.  When I get close to the end of the story, it’s common ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=146 Is it possible for a story topic to get tapped out, sucked dry?  How can you tell?  I was set to wondering about this when I got an invitation to fan another author on Facebook.  Rather than indiscriminately hit the accept button, I popped on over to the author’s page to ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=143 The speculative fiction world is a small one, and its publishers often operate on a razor thin margin.  Realms of Fantasy magazine was pulled back from the brink a year ago by Tir Na Nog Press when Sovreign Media decided to shutter it.  In the year since, they've done wonderful work, ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=141 I've been interviewed by another blog author on the topic of story/book names.  Check it out! http://book-mark-it.com/ http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=138 When the last post appeared, our daring heroine was nervously awaiting her first public reading….  Did she chew her fingernails to the nub?  Was she pelted by rotten tomatoes by an angry audience?  Or did get everything go well?  We tune in now to find out the answer….  I arrived at ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=136 I'm nervous.  And excited.  Friday, as in tomorrow, I get to do my very first ever public reading of my work.  I've stood before classes of 20-30 students and taught.  I've sold my work and it's been read by more than just sympathetic family and friends - and I've gotten ... http://michelledsonnier.com/?p=134