The Velvet Zebra

Author: The Velvet Zebra

  • pardon my dust

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    I’ll be making changes to the blog this week – the design and layout – so if you’re popping in and see strange things going on, and changing around, be not afraid 😀 I’m just prepping for the free debut of Ether. feel free to wander around while I putz, shouldn’t get in the way…

  • frank sinatra would be proud

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    I wasn’t going to blog this topic, but a couple of things happened that made me think to myself “what the hell.”  And “maybe you should explain what’s going on.”  As well as “you should post something, you know, so they don’t wander off and assume you’ve become one of the undead.” First, I was…

  • What’s new?

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    So, what’s new, you ask?  Well I’m glad you did ask – because as it happens, there is new. That is, there is news. The news being Free Fiction (yanno, since everyone loves freebies) Although there’s gonna be a catch this time. What do you mean, you ask?  Well, it’s like this . . .…

  • guess what

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    No, seriously, Guess. Come on … at least TRY to guess. I’ll give you a clue: http://gotm.wordpress.com/ You GUESSED !  Good for you!  That’s right, Pete Tzinski is writing again. And, I might add, I take full credit for this revelation.  For ’twas I who cajolled him into returning to the Happy Place that is…

  • Just a step to the left

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    So I’ve been giving this time travel/parallel worlds issue some more think – if you recall, I went on at length a while ago about how traveling back in time and changing something will not result in creating a new and different future, but an alternate one? Well – here’s the thing. . . It…

  • The Who

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    No, not the band – although I’ve always been a huge fan, myself.  I mean the questions you ask as a writer, of yourself, of your characters, of your novel.  Who, What, Why, Where, How. When you have a new story idea brewing in your head, you have to start asking yourself the questions. Who…

  • the blank page

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    It’s a writer’s nemisis, the blank page. Be it a solid sheet of white hanging out of a typewriter’s innards, or 19″ of pure blank screen staring back, with a tiny little cursor blinking there. Even if it’s a harmless sheet of college rule looking up from a notebook, there’s something intimidating about it. Nothing…

  • Black or White?

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    I was watching television the other day and a commercial came on for some new game, I didn’t catch the name, and it seemed aimed toward the little tikes – but something about it suddenly brought a realization forefront in my mind. See, I’m a gamer – I’m not ashamed to admit that. I’m very…

  • Frustrations

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    I’ve often lamented my lack of artistic skills when it comes to the visual.  While I have great “ideas”, I lack the physical talent to pull them off.  Never before has this been more annoying than now – when I’ve become the cover artist for Trunk Novels. So far, I’ve managed to pull off some…

  • The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

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    Thank goodness it’s only made of air. No, this isn’t a post about the crashing economy or the failure of the stock markets or the fact that – really – everything is just settling back down to it’s pre overly-inflated status. Oh, wait, that was a comment about the economy.  Well let’s follow that up…