Author: Cedar Sanderson

  • Purple Keys

    Purple Keys

    New keyboard test. This thing is super slimline with very low-profile keys. Much like both the laptop keyboards I’ve been working on for the last, er, year or two. So yeah, this is going to work much better than the deep keys of the backup keyboard I was trying out the other day. Muscle memory…

  • Revolutionary War Chicken

    Revolutionary War Chicken

    The First Reader and I were driving home Sunday Evening after a lovely visit with friends, and keeping each other awake on the long dark roads. One of the topics was food, naturally. We talked about planning the coming week’s menu (we rarely stick to it, but it’s helpful anyway). I suggested that when we…

  • It’s Not Perfect

    It’s Not Perfect

    Iterate better, friend and fellow author Dorothy Grant keeps telling me. If something isn’t working, make changes until it does. I started doing that several weeks ago when I moved the desk off the wall to the center of the room. This afternoon once I’d shut down the work laptop, I cleared it off the…

  • The Cat’s Palate

    The Cat’s Palate

    Inspector Gidget is ambivalent about wet catfood (she’ll only eat the gravy style with no solids) and turns up her nose at people food (even raw fresh salmon bits). I opened a tin of smoked oysters this morning and suddenly I had a cat trying to get on my lap (she doesn’t *do* laps, ever)and…

  • Morning Mist: Oddly Prompted

    Morning Mist: Oddly Prompted

    I haven’t written for a week. This is… not good.  In an attempt to at least muddle through some of my routines and commitments and regain my momentum, I’ve gone ahead with a MidJourney image for the prompt last week.  “The morning mist kissed the flower petals.” And also, a ‘remastered’ version of the initial…

  • My idea of Fun

    New place, new critters and plants. There’s people and conversations too, but the time to wander quietly was a welcome moment. Nothing to worry about, nothing tugging at my conscience to get done. Just me and whatever I can find. Pogonomyrmex rugosus, the Rough Harvester Ant, doing a bit of housekeeping before winter sets in.

  • Books, books, books

    Books, books, books

    I’m going to be out of pocket this weekend. I’ll leave you with some reading material recommendations, so you’ll have something to keep you busy (heh).  Also, these are people I know, writing good stuff, and you might have missed the new releases they have!  First order of business! Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture releases…

  • Wing wing… hewwo?

    Wing wing… hewwo?

    The Little Man made dinner tonight. Well. He had some help. The problem isn’t that he can’t cook. Rather the opposite. He’s an ambitious cook with a fair amount of training, not just from me, but taking cooking classes. He lacks the experience to know where his limits are, so he’ll bite off more than…

  • Chatty Today

    Chatty Today

    *flexes fingers a few times* Hits the keyboard, hands flying.  I’ve been an erratic blogger. Yes, Cedar, you’re thinking, you’ve been like that for… (checks blog date) sixteen years now.  I don’t mean that kind of erratic! I mean the kind that doesn’t post on the regular, which means that readers stop coming to see…

  • The Deer Shot Back

    The Deer Shot Back

    The second volume of the hunting anthologies is available for purchase in ebook now, with paperback coming right along behind it.  Buy it! Read it! and then, if you’d be so kind, leave us a review…   

  • Drawing Prompts

    Drawing Prompts

    Every year in October, I take part in the global phenomenon where artists draw every day. Unlike the majority, for copyright issues, I no longer call this by the name the movement started out with, and out of an excess of caution, I also don’t use the prompts lest there be an IP issue with…

  • Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture

    Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture

    A month or more ago I had a wild hare. This is the result of chasing that bunny down the hole and falling through another world…  This is an art book with black and white interior so it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. The paper version is formatted for ease of page removal,…