The Best Advice

The Best Advice

The Best Advice From Lisa Mangum, Editor of One Horn to Rule them All and A Game of Horns, and Editor at Shadow Mountain As both an author and an editor, I have been on both sides of the writing desk. So what is the best advice I’ve been given about writing? Three...
Heroes of Our Own Story

Heroes of Our Own Story

Heroes of Our Own Story From Lisa Mangum, Editor of One Horn to Rule them All and A Game of Horns, and Editor at Shadow Mountain “Hamlet … in love … with the old man’s daughter . . . the old man thinks.” One of the best lines that isn’t in Shakespeare’s play. It’s...

Writing: A Not So Solitary Existence

Writing: A Not So Solitary Existence From David Sakmyster, author of Escape Plans and Final Solstice The old adage that writers lead a solitary life and are, by nature, these hermetic creatures living under rocks or out in some cabin in the wilderness, is quite...
The Roller Coaster of Writing

The Roller Coaster of Writing

The Roller Coaster of Writing From Lisa Mangum, Editor of One Horn to Rule them All and A Game of Horns, and Editor at Shadow Mountain When my niece McKenna was much younger (and much shorter) she and her family traveled to Disneyland. She desperately wanted to ride...
Lessons Learned from Legos

Lessons Learned from Legos

Lessons Learned from Legos From Lisa Mangum, Editor of One Horn to Rule them All and A Game of Horns, and Editor at Shadow Mountain I’ve been a big fan of the Lego video games since the first one came out. My husband, Tracy, and I have played almost all of them,...