Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading from Pi-Con 2014

A quick post--sharing the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading from Pi-Con 2014, made into a Broad Universe podcast by the fabulous (and 2014 Pi-Con Guest of Awesome) Justine Graykin.

This is a really fabulous sampling from Broad Universe members--including humor, intrigue, fantasy, science fiction and horror. I read two of the poems from Interview with the Faerie Part One: And Other Poems of Darkness and Light at about 10 minutes in.

Enjoy!
http://broaduniverse.org/podcast/august-2014-broadpod/

A Big Step Forward With My Novel!

I must be brief here, because there is a lot going on in my life now, and not all of it is positive.

Some GOOD NEWS! Today I had a great breakthrough with figuring out the Cosmology for my novel-in-progress, Ownership of the Gods. It's a complicated cosmology that figures in Gods and Goddess from across time and (Earth) culture, and must also make sense in the here and now.

I'm tweaking a chapter that I will record for the upcoming Broad Universe podcast, and I realized I really needed to have that Cosmology fixed. So I took pen to paper and did it! I love it--it accomplished everything I want it to, including:

* being multi-cultural
* being pan-religion
* challenging some commonly held assumptions about religion
* turning on their head some commonly held beliefs about where religious ideas "come from," and how they relate to us in the here-and-now

I am just super-excited! (I swear-sketching this out was seriously the most fun I've had in several weeks!) I'll add a note and link to the podcast from my blog here when it is released.

Be well, all.

:-)