Carolyn Kephart, Her Blog

In the Byzantine calendar, September 1 is the beginning of the new year. Since I was born on that date, I always (or at least since I became...

One of the most macabre yet sincere compliments I've ever received came from a friend about half my age who read my books soon after the...

This last month of summer makes me want to hold on to the heat and never let it go. The inevitability of another year's demise makes me ...

(Note: information about my other writing can be found  here .) I'm ferrying over the last of my Amazon posts here like Robinson Crusoe,...

(Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) ............... I love costume. Not mere clothes, especially not ...

3:05 PM PDT, May 20, 2009 I was lucky this year. My pink Minuet peonies were fat spheres packed with promise, on the point of bursti...

7:17 PM PDT, May 8, 2009 (For my short fiction and novel chapters, click  here .) I spent far too much time today ridding my co...

9:50 PM PDT, April 30, 2009 Before I get down to blogging about my topic, I’ll note that the Kindle editions of my books are now on sa...

11:33 AM PDT, April 24, 2009 The official drink of the angels, I'm convinced, is St. Germain liqueur . It’s celestial i...

5:45 PM PDT, April 20, 2009 My house surely must be blessed by the kami , since I've got a whole family of foxes living i...

12:43 PM PDT, April 15, 2009 (Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) Life is often irksome, an...

2:56 PM PDT, April 11, 2009 Mildly seasonal as this post's title may seem, Ezra Pound's poem about faces packs all k...

11:45 AM PDT, April 8, 2009 Note: The tale referred to in this post is "The Kind Gods," published in Bewildering Stories and ...

4:49 PM PDT, March 24, 2009 [Information about my other writing can be found here .   Happy reading!] And time remembered is grief forgotten...

1:51 PM PDT, March 13, 2009 Like all good torturers, the malaise mentioned in an earlier post granted me a brief respite, during...

1:01 PM PST, February 28, 2009 (Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) Having not visited Fre...

6:42 PM PST, February 18, 2009 (Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) ............... Donne was usin...

6:15 PM PST, November 22, 2008 Peace happens in the most impossible places. This past summer, at a crowded downtown Kyoto shopping arca...

12:21 PM PST, November 15, 2008 November is, and has been since 1998, National Novel Writing Month . According to recent studies, many ...

1:11 AM PDT, September 30, 2008 Now and again I'm asked if I use specific people as templates for the characters I w...