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Author Archives: E. Rose Sabin
Small Miracles of Great Beauty
This morning when I went to check on the butterfly pupae that are hanging from a Christmas cactus on the room divider just beside my back door, I discovered that a butterfly had emerged. Usually the emerging butterfly grasps and … Continue reading
Posted in Butterflies, caterpillars, hobbies
Tagged miracles, Monarch butterflies, monarch caterpillars, nature, raising butterflies
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Not a Harry Potter Knockoff
My novel A School for Sorcery was published in hard cover in 2002 and came out in trade paperback as part of Tor’s Starscape series of fantasy and science fiction novels for teens in August 2003. Given those publication dates, … Continue reading
Wearing My Editor Hat
As some of you know, I am a free-lance editor. I’ve been doing a big editing job for the Sarasota County Department of Health, an affiliate of the Florida Department of Health, so I have my “editor’s hat” on. For … Continue reading
Description Conundrum
Today’s blog raises a question I don’t have an answer for: How much description is too much, and how little description is too little? When I write, I tend to be spare in regard to description. I think it’s largely … Continue reading
Posted in Books, fantasy novels, Reading, Writing
Tagged A Perilous Power, Arucadi Series, Description, editors, fantasy, questions, Seduction of the Scepter, Writing
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Grammar Still Matters
In this age of social media, when people post everything from what they ate at their most recent meal to political and social commentary, often in haste and with little regard to spelling and grammar, we may well conclude that … Continue reading
Posted in editing, Spelling and Grammar, Writing
Tagged editing, grammar, language, spelling, usage
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On Writing Across Genres
Cross-genre works have become increasingly popular in recent years. They’ve always been around; they aren’t a new phenomenon. However, in the past it often proved difficult to get a cross-genre work published. That was not due to any fault in … Continue reading
On Letting Go
In my previous blog I wrote about books so enjoyable that you don’t want them to end. Now I must confess that writers sometimes feel that way about a book they are writing. We tend to fall in love with … Continue reading
Posted in editing, fantasy novels, Reading, Writing
Tagged Authors, E. Rose Sabin, editors, fantasy, ideas, novels, Seduction of the Scepter, Writing
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