Cat Carlisle's Writing Blog

I read 35 books in 2013 - that's the most I've read since I started keeping track in 2010. Here are my posts from previous years: 20...

Anime convention circa 2001 I suppose the title of this post ought to be "Books Set at Science Fiction, Fantasy, Anime, Comic Book...

In 2012, I read 23 books. In 2011 it was 28 and in 2010 it was 32. I'm sensing an unfortunate trend here. Part of the problem was tha...

Why write when you can waste time mocking up a cover for a book you haven't actually written? So a month ago I thought to myself, w...

Title: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas Author: John Scalzi Page count: 318 Price when I bought it: $11.99 How I read it:...

  I wrote something. Finally. The good news: It's 13,000 words and has a beginning, a middle and an end. The bad news: It's ...

Fireplace, before and after My fingers are crossed that by the time this posts, our house in Arizona will be one hundred percent no longer...