The Writing Life

I’ve met up with Erin off and on at various conventions. She is a great person to talk to and I’m pleased to know she, like me, has a fascination with villains and the point of view of the villain. Lesser Evils is the sequence to Brimstone Angels. —I can remember watching G.I. Joe as a child—four or maybe five years old—and wondering about Cobra. “They can’t,” I remember thinking, “just be evil.” No one would waste that many resources or poorly aimed red lasers on just being jerks. Not when being good, like G.I. Joe, clearly worked better.  Perhaps, I thought, Cobra believes they are being good. Perhaps they think G.I. Joe are the bad ones. And there began my fascination with villains. It’s a level of characterization that I won’t argue that old cartoon earned, but the idea of perspective affecting morality is one I love to read...

I’ve recently received a number of requests asking for plans and details on how our TARDIS Little Free Library was built. We don’t have formal plans. The awesome Husband was awesome and figured it out on his own with trial and error. However, I’ve managed to pin him down and make him tell me what he can about the TARDIS Little Free Library, its dimensions, and what he did to make it happen. This is what he told me. ===Building the TARDIS External:-16″ deep, 15.5″ wide-Height with roof support was 26.5″ ( note, this is without the roof )-The roof itself is 20″ x 20″ and has about a 4″ rise from outside to center.-The door height, so without supports, is 24″-The width of the door is 13″ ( which is also the width of the inside part of the sides and back, ie, width without the posts ) The...