Introducing Joely Sue Burkhart

The monthly Drollerie Press Blog Tour is swinging through town again. This time, my post, "What It Means When Writers Say, 'I've Been A Writer Since I Was Six Years Old,'" will appear sometime today over at Cindy Lynn Speer's blog, A Pen and Fire.

We've been having a fine time on the Drollerie authors email list throwing around themes to use for these monthly blog tours, and this month's is origin stories. I remember saying something like, "We can explain how we came to be bitten by our respective radioactive spiders." That this was my first interpretation of the words "origin story" tells you what sort of geek I am. I expect today's crop of tour posts will produce a lot of different interpretations.

Meanwhile, I'm hosting Joely Sue Burkhart today. If you went to track down my blog tour post last month, you may already have poked around her website and checked out her blog, Dreaming in Rhyme. Her books from Drollerie Press are Surive My Fire, The Fire Within, The Rose of Shanhasson, and Beautiful Death.

Her take on the origin stories theme is totally unlike mine, and it turns out her writing process is totally unlike mine, too. I'll stand aside and let her come through:


This month's Drollerie Press blog tour theme is "origins" and immediately, all I could think about was a parody I wrote awhile back called "Story Genesis." I've always loved to write parodies. One of my first and best pieces I wrote was a "Beowulf" parody in high school English. Mrs. Lightle liked it so much she never did give it back to me, and that was back in B.C. (before computers), so I don't have a copy of it.


Here is "Story Genesis."
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