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This week’s episode is sponsored by our friend Sarah A. Hoyt’s Bowl Of Red
At the top of a tall mountain, there lives a dragon. And the dragon is the master of all animals.
Okay, let’s rewind that. Tom Ormson is a dragon shifter, the scion of a line that was created to rule both Chinese and Norse gods. But he doesn’t want the job. He co-owns a diner with his wife, Kyrie, who is about to deliver their first child.
In fact, they just got married, when the entire shifter-world, which centers on their diner goes insane.
You see, it is a time of Ragnarok, which means all of the shifter clans are in turmoil, with changing leadership. And the lion clan, to which Kyrie belongs has just lost its leader. Also, the Queen of the Norse dragons has woken, and wants a word with the Great Sky Dragon.
Hold on to your hats. A wild ride is about to begin, with Tom, Kyrie and their friends at the center of it.
When it ends, the world will never be the same again.
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We’ve got a Star Wars art book that my husband got when he worked at Lucas Film. It’s got concept art and little paragraphs of story about creating episode one.
The concept picture for Darth Maul is included in the book and the caption says… George Lucas asked the artist to draw their worst nightmare. When he got the concept picture he looked at it, handed it back to the artist and said, okay, draw your *second* worst nightmare.
The “worst nightmare” picture looked like a crazed serial killer with rain and ribbons running down his face as he stood outside your window looking in. It really was a scary picture. Darth Maul for the movie was toned down to “pretend scary” instead of “nightmare real scary”.
(Edited to incorporate paragraph length to force extra umph to the end of a sentence.)
When the question on violence directed toward younger people was brought up, I first thought it was about writing violence (in books) FOR children. An episode on writing for children would be interesting, but I’m sure it’s totally out of your fortes.
You’ve known from every branch at some point? Meet any Space Force vets yet?
Oh, and the part about EODs being really smart reminds me of Bosnian Bill (of “the pick that Bosnian Bill and I made” fame), who was hugely important to the spread of modern lockpicking knowledge and the pseudonymous, only show the hands thing most have adopted. His entry was the military taught him the techniques for bypassing really simple “locks” and encouraged him to learn more on his own because they were tired of having to cut (and thus pay to replace) any locks he and other EODs encountered during security sweeps. Figured out most of the stuff at a time when resources for instruction and pick production were basically non-existent.
“Nobody likes textbooks.”
Speaking as someone who wrote a textbook, I’d like to take this opportunity to say HEY!