My current manuscript (the first book of the BONE FIRE Duet) is set more than 7,000 years ago in the Wallachian Plains of Eastern Europe (now part of Romania). My main male character is Jorn the Word Singer. One of the primary decisions I had to make as I wrote about Jorn involved the words…
Wild Word Friday! I’ve had an incredibly busy and productive week, but no time to write a blog post for Wild Word Friday, so this is a re-run. I hope it makes you smile! LAP is a very ancient word that can be traced all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language (think 5 thousand years…
Wild Word Friday! It’s unusual to find a word that in its noun form has two very opposite meanings, but HOST is one of those contrary words. In its most ancient form – ghosti, an Indo-European word – it meant stranger or guest. Right away you can see the dichotomy. A guest is someone we…
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