Posted in Fantasy Writings, Genre: Fantasy, LaShawn's Work, Short Stories, Writing, tagged Writing, Short Stories, LaShawn M. Wanak, fantasy, short story, fiction, Ideomancer, fairies, African-American fantasy, black fantasy, "Crowntree" on March 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
And yet another story of mine is up to read! Yippee! And it’s at Ideomancer, of all places!
This one has a special place in my heart. It’s based off an actual tree and stone ring I saw in someone’s backyard. Seeing the tree took me back to the days of when I was a kid, [...]
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Posted in Fantasy Writings, Genre: Fantasy, LaShawn's Work, Prayer, Short Stories, Women's Stuff, Writing, tagged "Daughters of Sarah", angels, Christian, LaShawn M. Wanak, short story, speculative fiction, Writing on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yeehaw! A new story!
I’m proud of this one because this was the first short story I worked on when I started writing again after Daniel was born. Actually, ’short’ is pretty subjective. This one’s a bit on the long side.
I got the idea for this story back when I was at Roosevelt University. One of [...]
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Over at Fantasy Magazine, there’s a very interesting interview of Carole McDonnell and Alaya Dawn Johnson, two fantasy authors who are both black and female. Seeing that I’m both, I found it quite liberating to hear two women like me talk about their work, Christianity and the changing state of speculative fiction to a more [...]
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It’s been quiet at the Cafe. Real quiet. It’s not that anything’s happening. On the contrary…there’s a lot.
I’ve been spending most of my time working on an article that I want to get out by the end of this week. It’s taken up quite a bit of time, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to [...]
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I like reading short story anthologies, particularly fantasy ones. It keeps me on my toes as to what makes a great story, and while I like reading them, I also analyze them as to what got them into the book in the first place.
That said, I just finished the 2004 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. [...]
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So when people call me up and talk to me (assuming that I’m not chasing after my son at that moment or the phone’s not being hogged by my hubby), they usually ask, “So…what you’ve been writing lately?”
I usually mumble something how I got a couple of short stories in the works (which isn’t true now [...]
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So here’s my first book review. All the books reviewed here are books I just finished reading, either on my own (mostly fantasy, writing books, etc) or as part of the International Book Club, (more literary fiction). I got pretty eclectic book tastes, though I write mainly fantasy fiction. It’s good, though, to read a vast [...]
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