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Tee Morris

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Captain America

Election 2016: The Day After

November 9, 2016 by Tee Morris 2 Comments

20140917_074443_805_xI’ve got a terrible habit that I need to let you all know about: I glance at my phone way too often when I drive. It’s a bad habit that I developed when I was freelancing, working long hours, and glancing at Twitter to break the monotony on long drives. I’ve gotten a lot better at curtailing the “need for feed” as Boom is getting older, but this morning I checked my feed on the inchworm commute to work. No, I shouldn’t have. Yes, I nearly rear-ended someone. It was reckless. It was stupid. I should be safer. Both me and the Volt made it to work with nary a scratch…

Well, no, that’s not 100% true. [Read more…] about Election 2016: The Day After

Filed Under: Rants, Opinions, and Overall Observations Tagged With: belief, Captain America, compassion, Donald Trump, election, Election 2016, expression, fear, First Amendment, friendship, future, hate, Hillary Clinton, J. Michael Straczynski, love, politics, uncertainty

Five Things I Learned When Writing a Young Adult Book

October 17, 2016 by Tee Morris 2 Comments

curseofthesilverpharoah_smallRecently, The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh went live on Amazon, print editions premiering this week at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, provided we get no unforeseen whammies from CreateSpace. (Thanks, Hurricane Matthew!) Silver Pharaoh is not my first novel, nor is it my first foray into steampunk, as many of you know. The thing about this book that has me fidgeting nervously as reviews start to trickle in is that Silver Pharaoh is my first step into the realm of Young Adult fiction.

And that terrifies me. Greatly.

I’ve got a lot of feelings about Y.A. Fiction, one being that those reading Y.A. are not necessarily “young” adults. Think about it—while Harry Potter could be easily dismissed as a “kid’s book” and is found in the Children’s sections of bookstores and libraries everywhere, just as many adults devoured the adventures of the Boy Who Lived just as ravenously as its target audience.

So, yeah, working in the wild and woolly world of Y.A. for the first time, I picked up a few things… [Read more…] about Five Things I Learned When Writing a Young Adult Book

Filed Under: Geek Chic, Rants, Opinions, and Overall Observations, Steampunk, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Writing Tagged With: Alive, angst, audience, Captain America, Divergent, Game of Thrones, Hamlet, Harry Potter, ID Discovery Channel, Scott Sigler, Spy Kids, Steampunk, Steve Rogers, teenagers, teens, The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh, The Fifth Wave, The Hunger Games, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, tweenagers, tweens, Wolverine, Writing, Y.A. Fiction, young adult

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