For your entertainment, I’ve decided to give you a Halloween treat that will scare the pants off you!!! Just kidding. But hopefully, like me, it will have you laughing so hard, you’ll cry.

A year and a half ago, my brother moved to the Big Apple, New York City, with all of his worldly goods in the back of a friend’s pickup. No job, just a pocket full of dreams. He’s craved out a place for himself, and loving life. Dallas is a big city, especially if you consider all of the surrounding areas, but it is nothing like New York (or so I suppose, having never been to New York).

Sometime after Christmas, my sister is planning to move to Canada. Canada! And this leaves me with the question: when is it my turn? I’ll still be stuck in Texas with summers so hot, I feel like a prisoner in my own house. My dream, you ask? I want to move to Colorado. I feel such peace in the mountains, it is like drowning in bliss. The other side of this odd little coin is that I don’t do cold well. So I don’t know how I’d feel about a Colorado winter. It has to be better than a Texas summer, right? So what if there’s snow on the ground in March! (Did I mention Texas may have a day or two of snow, if we’re lucky?) I can put more clothes on, maximize layering, but there is only so much I can take off! Heh.

Another issue is leaving all of the friends I’ve developed here. That will be hard. And I foresee stronger bonds in the future here in the Lone Star State. My family’s lives are so firmly intertwined here, it isn’t like we can pick up and leave the state in the coming summer. It’ll probably be seven plus years before we can rip out the roots, but then, will we want to? I don’t know. I really like my friends. But hell! I hate Texas summers.

Delilah Rehm

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Poor Joanne. What else can you say about a woman who has been through the ringer SIX times?

 Thin Air is Rachel Caine’s sixth book in the weather warden series. Rachel Caine always brings something new to the table, and in Thin Air, Joanne has to stop a demon from destroying the world, a demon who has already stolen Joanne’s memory, and can you believe it? Joanne has an evil imposter telling her friends and allies that Joanne is the fake, the copy, the one to be destroyed. I really liked this book, and I give it four stars.

Delilah Rehm

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There are a couple of people I want to bring into the light for the efforts, above and beyond regular group meetings, helped me develop my writing. And the first person is…

Rosemary Clement-Moore. She helped me choose among my short stories for which one to enter into the FenCon Short Story Contest that I won last year. She helped me edit the thing, and clean writing often will rise the piece to the top 10% (imo). Rosemary had already sold her first book when she befriended me. I gained a lot of valuable experience with her nearby, like sharing a trip to World Fantasy Con. I learned how to be calm and, well… normal while talking to agents and editors. It was easy when I had nothing to pitch!