Realmscapes is out

Yes I know this post is almost a month over due. In fact this blog is very over due for any update whatsoever. So here it is my latest publishing brag:

My Realmscapes

I have one story inside. Raised in Captivity can be found on page 57.

It’s the story of Brad who was raised by Earth’s alien conqueror’s. When Brad’s eyes are open, he’ll have to choose, comfort or freedom.

You can purchase the anthology at Amazon.com: Here.

There are no reviews yet so if you purchase a copy can you please leave a short review.

And if my name alone isn’t enough to make you by this awesome spec-fic anthology here are a few of the other awesome authors featured within:

Kat Heckenbach Of Toch Island fame.

A.C. Williams author of the Morningstar Trilogy.

Grace Bridges author of Mariah’s Dream

The center piece is a novella by Rebecca Minor. It’s part of her Windrider Saga.

Those are just a few of the authors inside, I am running out of time to search and link author pages. For the full list please buy and review the anthology.

 

Have yourself a merry little guest blog.

Hello,

I know it’s been awhile.

You may be wondering where my usual Christmas post is about now. Well I did write one it’s just not here. I wrote a blog post for the Thinking Thoughts blog run by my friend Emilie Hendryx. You can read my post Christmas post here:

http://eahendryx.blogspot.com/2015/12/cathrine-bonham-spread-christmas-joy.html

In summery it’s about the Christmas spirit and how it’s not really a thing.

Anyway enjoy the post and please check out some of the other great posts that Emilie has featured throughout December.

Finalist in Ream Makers Short story Contest.

Hello,

I am letting everyone know that I’m a finalist in this Short Story contest.

RM Short Story promo

Me and Thirteen others will have our stories published in an anthology published by Brimstone Fiction.

Each story has the theme of Escape.

But there’s more, one lucky author will win the readers choice award. That’s where you come in.

Please go to  https://realmmakers.wordpress.com  and read the thirteen story excerpts. They are not very long, just the first 10% of each story. Then vote for the one that you like, or the one that you most want to read the rest of.

Sadly, I can not tell you which story is mine. This way you have to read them all and actually vote based on the merit of the writing and not who has the biggest social network following.

I’ll find out the winner at this years Realm Makers conference (August 7-8 in St. Louis, Mo.).

I want to thank you in advance for taking the time to read and vote, even if the one you pick isn’t mine.

Back to Blogging

First I’m sorry for being such an inconsistent blogger. I know I hardly posted anything at all last year. I am so sorry. . .

“I am the worst blogger ever,” she said hanging her head in shame. “I am so unmotivated, and no one ever comments on my stuff,” she said knowing full well that the former had more to do with it than the later. Her real problem is that she keeps sitting around waiting for things to happen and she is also very unfocused. The blog is called Random musings for goodness sake.

Wow, I have no idea who that was, some random third person POV hacker taking over my blog.

Anyway since I haven’t posted anything in forever you probably don’t know that the second Realm Makers conference is over and it was amazing.

She hesitates. “What if someone I met there reads this? They’re going to know what an unmotivated writer I am. I can’t even maintain a blog how will I ever write a novel?” She bites her fingernails in worry.

You don’t know that I am writing a novel. It has the word Random in the title. Make of that what you will.

“Their going to think the wrong thing, I should give more information. No If I over explain it to begin with I won’t feel free to make major revisions later. I should leave it alone. This will build hype for future publication. No it won’t,” she stops typing to continue her internal discussion, “I never finish anything I start. The book is doomed. You don’t know that, if it worries you so much don’t mention it in your blog.” 

 

You don’t know that The Cross and Cosmos is no longer in publication. The web site is still up for now but there aren’t going to be any new issues.

“How am I going to publish my short stories now?” She mutters to herself, knowing in her heart that she fears rejection too much to submit her work to anyplace else.

You probably don’t even remember that my Blogaversary is tomorrow.

She stops typing and saves her post in the draft folder as she scrolls through her older posts to double check the spelling of Blogaversary.

Hey who did all that? You have got to be kidding me, I think I need to update my security settings. I get up for three minuets and the POV hacker strikes again. Just ignore everything in Italics it’s not important.

Anyway don’t feel bad, you didn’t know these things because, I didn’t tell you. Really I didn’t even remember that my Blogaversary was tomorrow until I got a notification from WordPress.

I can’t promise that I will post more often because let’s face it–I’ve broken that promise too many times for anyone to ever believe it.

But I will try not to forget and leave this blog dormant for almost a year again (cross your fingers).

She crosses her fingers and pushes “Publish.” Then waits expectantly for someone, anyone to comment and give her life meaning.

She gets up and watches her computer. As she waits for it to shut down she notices a little sticker on the side that says includes meta-reality POV processor. “I wonder what that does?” she muses. The computer screen goes blank and she closes the laptop.

TC2 Issue 17

I Know it’s been a while since my last post. But hasn’t it been even longer since I last had a story published? So I am killing two birds with one stone by posting to let everyone know that I have a Story featured in the newest issue of The Cross and the Cosmos.

My new story is called “May the Stars Sing you Home.” It takes place in a fantasy world in which the Elvish space program is preparing for it’s first interstellar voyage. Though, I take great pride in saying that Humans still won the moon race.

I hope everyone enjoys it because I am working on more from this same story world.

And While you’re at TC2 check out the other stories. Right now I am getting ready for work so I only had time to read “Dark Within.” By: Charles M. Bailey. But it is good. Nice creepy atmosphere. perfect for October. A must read if you like Edgar Allen Poe.

I will read “Knitting Honors” by: K.M. Carroll later. But I have to say that I am intrigued by the title alone. But the fact that this is a Sci-Fi and fantasy E-zine makes the concept of knitting even more interesting. How does it apply I wonder.

Anyway enjoy the Story! Be sure and let me know what you think of it.

Post Conference Post

I know I made you all wait forever (One month anyway) to hear about my first writers conference. Some of you were teased with a post, but I had technical issues.

So I am going to try and make it up to you. Hopefully I can figure out how to do this right.

The film is developed and the photos are scanned. Let it begin.

What is Realm Makers?

Realm Makers is a writers conference but it is also Comic con for Christians.

Me and Jeff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And people wonder why I am not a Star Wars fan.

Red shirts die

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The TIE fighter is Jeff Gerke he is the founder of Marcher Lord Press. You remember it’s  the publishing house behind this:

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I have to admit that I think I wanted to go just to meet this guy:

Me and Bryan Davis

 

 

This is Bryan Davis the author of the dragons of Starlight series and the Dragon in our midst series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am so ashamed to admit that I was very star struck and probably did not come across as a very competent person.

While I was in St. Louis I made a point of checking out this thing:

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Very exciting experience being so high.

 

 

 

 

It wouldn’t be right call this Comic con Christians if there wasn’t an actual Comic book writer present. Luckily there was.

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Matt Yocum Marvel comics writer.

 

 

 

 

 

Also these guys:

L.B. Graham

 

 

 

 

 

L.B. Graham whose book The Raft the River and the Robot has some great Gateway Arch imagery in it.

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Treskillard

 

 

 

 

Robert Treskillard author of Merlin’s Blade.

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan and Jeff

 

 

 

And Morgan Busse author of  Daughter of Light with Jeff Gerke again.

 

 

All told it was an interesting experience. I would definitely do it again and probably have a better time just for having done it once already.

Anyway thanks for being patient with me while I figured out how to add so many pictures. Or as it really happened, I messed up, did it completely wrong, got mad, left it sit for a month and then finally went back and did it the way I knew I should have done it in the first place.

Two Years In

It’s that time of year again. It’s my Blogaversary. Well it was anyway. The actual anniversary was on the twelfth but I missed it. Oh well Happy belated Blogaversary to me.

Two years ago I started typing out my random musings and giving them a home here on the web.

I may not have always been consistent with my posts but I do hope that they were all interesting.

The highlight of the year was probably serializing my story “The Feud Worth Forgetting.” Which can be found under the Short Stories category, subcategory “The feud worth forgetting.”   Don’t forget to scroll all the way down to get to part one.

The past year also featured two of my stories being published in the Cross and Cosmos: Year One anthology. Last year was also my first entry into a writing contest. The Family Fiction Create Romance short short story contest in which I became one of the top 200 entries.

Thank you to everyone who visited my blog. I got 8 followers this year, you know who you are. I hope you liked what you found, obviously you did or you wouldn’t have followed my blog. I am going to try to post more often this year.

Who am I kidding? I will post when I feel like it. These are random musings after all.

 

Realm Makers

I am sorry that I went almost two months without posting anything.  But I have been working a lot, trying to plan a trip and just being lazy. On top of all that there are so many cool movies in theaters right now that time must be made to see them. Plus books to read, TV shows etc . . .

Anyway I am ready to talk about the trip I am planning.

I am going to a writers conference. This is my first writers conference so I am not sure what to expect. I am attending the Realm Makers Conference August 2-3 in St. Louis, MO. This is the Writers conference of the Faith and Fantasy Alliance. Find out more here: www.realmmakers.com/index.php

I am excited because this will also be my first airplane ride. I have never flown before but it should be interesting.  I am looking forward to meeting with other writers. I wonder if any of them have heard of me? Oh it’s so close I can’t wait.

 

The Feud Worth Forgetting: Part Ten

The girls, Harriet and Carla, pulled into the tree shrouded driveway and immediately sensed a grim stillness. They got down from the pickup which now seemed too high. They approached the house via an ever lengthening walkway to the front door.

The screen door squeaked open on it’s hinges. The sisters looked up to see their father placing two suitcases in the front hallway. “Your mother and I are going to Tennessee for a few days. If you’re coming you should probably get packed”

“Grandma?” was all Harriet could say.

Their father nodded and Carla took off to her room to start packing. Harriet was about to follow her twins example when the sound of heavy sobbing came out of her parents room. She pushed the door open and saw her Mom sitting on the bed crying into a wad of tissues. A cell phone was on the bed beside her. Harriet rushed in and wrapped her arms around her mothers shoulders.

“She didn’t even wait for me to say goodbye. Why? First she’s in the Hospital and now she’s gone. Why couldn’t she wait for me to get there?”

“Oh mom. It probably wasn’t her choice.”

Dad was standing in the door way listening, “I’ll go tell Carla that there’s no hurry now.,” he said and walked away.

“I just wish so much knowledge hadn’t died with her.” Mom said wiping her eyes again. “She was trying to find the truth in some of my Grandma’s old stories. At one time she had this great big book of Family History and your grandma had it traced almost back to the Revolutionary War.”

“What happened to it?”

It wasn’t Harriet who asked this.

Looking up from her tear soaked tissue pulp mom saw Carla standing in the doorway, her father’s arm resting on her shoulders. “I can’t really say. Mom must have found something bad in her research. Because she came home and burned it all. She said, ‘Alison remember, some things were meant to be forgotten.’ And then she threw what looked like an old diary into the flames after her family research book.”

“Wow.” Was all either of the girls could think of to say.

“I wish I could remember my Grandmas stories. I should have written them down.” Carla came in and joined her mother and sister on the bed. The closeness of her children started another round of tears in Alison daughter of Carolina Gellervice. “If I had only taken more of an interest in her research. Maybe I could have stopped her from burning our Family history.”

Dad finally entered the room. “Not if she was right.” He stood his wife up and held her in his embrace. “Maybe some things should be forgotten.”

©  This story and subsequent parts are my own original idea and are protected under United States copy right law.

A Short Short-Story Contest Update

In July I told everyone to go to Familyfiction.com and vote for my short short story, “A Meeting Beneath the Black Light,” that I had entered in their Create Romance Contest.

Well today I got a very unexpected yet welcomed Christmas gift in my email box.

I made the Top 200.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who voted for my story. And if you want to read it again here’s the link: http://www.familyfiction.com/short-stories/create-romance-2012/a-meeting-beneath-the-black-light/

Please note the green “Top 200” seal on the top right of the page.

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