Biography

Like much of what she writes, Emery Sanborne is a work in progress. When she isn’t exploring the wilds of Philadelphia, old cemeteries, or the vagaries of her own mind, she can be found in her home of many colors, curled up with her cat and a good book.

On ePiracy

Maybe I’m crazy—no, wait, I am crazy, that’s not up for debate—but epiracy doesn’t strike me as all that bad in the grand scheme of things.  Yes, stealing is bad, wrong, illegal, etc., but it has an upside.  Stealing can be beneficial?  Yeah, Emery, you are a loon.  Like I said, not denying that I’m [...]

On Endings

It’s finale season, so everyone’s talking about endings.  And this year has brought a few biggies, at least in theory.

Today, everyone’s talking about Lost, so I suppose I should say a few words as well.  I loved this show when it first started.  It’s rare to get a US show that’s thought-provoking and completely out [...]

Figuring Out What Works

I may have scared my muse away again.  Which means I’m sitting around in my downtime thinking instead of writing.  And we all know how well too much thinking turns out.

At the moment, I’m trying to puzzle out why Grey and my Arcana Ancien series just isn’t selling.  Both of us have had great luck [...]

Delving into Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that is.  More specifically Sherlock Holmes.

Though I know I read a couple stories in high school (The Adventure of the Speckled Band stands out), but aside from what the speckled band was, I couldn’t tell you much about my overall impression of the writing and Holmes in general.  So, in need [...]

A Matter of Timing

Well-written, brilliantly cast shows are hard to come by.  So when I find them, it’s a rare treat that I try to hang onto, not to mention mainline when possible (thank you TV on DVD and online streaming).  However, some shows just don’t grab me.  I like the stories and care about the characters…but not [...]

Weekend Movie Viewing

On this past weekend’s menu:  Time After Time, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and the first hour of the 2009 UK Royal Shakespeare television production of Hamlet.

Time After Time was maybe a bit cheesy in parts, but on the whole rather enjoyable.  H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell—always freaks me out when he’s not the bad guy) [...]

Potpourri

Once again, I bring you a mixed bag of a blog post.  And, believe it or not, I’ll actually talk about writing for part of it.  Writing, not not writing.

Heck, I’ll start out talking about writing, why not?  Although, now that I think about it, I really should save that for my India Harper post [...]

Honesty or Shock-Value?

Tuesday night I got into a very long and winding discussion with my mother on the phone, stemming from the fact that I changed my “religious status” on Facebook from “agnostic” to “atheist”.  One of my cousins, who happens to have been my Confirmation sponsor, saw this and called Mom in a bit of a [...]

Surviving Snowmageddon

Or the Snowpocalypse or whatever you want to call it.   Being from Michigan, the foot-plus of snowfall in Philadelphia this weekend really didn’t even make me blink.  Though out here, inches induce mass panic, so “serious” snowfall is kind of impressive for a change.  If it’s going to be cold, there might as [...]

2010 Begins

I started out well and then I slacked off with the posting.  Stupid holidays and side projects.  Though, ultimately, I have no one but myself to blame for slackage.  Bad author, bad.

Not that I’ve been much of an author the last two months.  I’ve had my editor had on for a project that turned out [...]