Author Archives: Christie Bailey

2/5/11– This week, I studied story–personal narratives, how stories shape our lives, how we tell them. Sounds like I might be taking a creative writing course, right? No. Doctoral level nursing Theory Development. Huh? Yeah. Theory Development. Sounds like a real snooze-fest, but it’s actually just about the best class I’ve ever taken. It turns &hellip Continue reading »

It’s a grey, rainy day. Unusual for South Florida this time of the year–typically our dry season. I wonder if it heralds another cold front. I sure hope so. I was really <3ing the 40-degree weather. My third semester of graduate school is over, and I’m enjoying my first real day off with nothing to &hellip Continue reading »

…look little like traditional hippogryphs. They’ve got the horse body and the bird head, sure, but it’s…a corvid (raven/crow/jay) head, not an eagle head…and what’s up with the antlers? Not to say I don’t like the WoW hippogryphs. I do! They’re just a little misleading, because they look very different from my hippogryph character inThis &hellip Continue reading »

So, this is a little late, but here is the final Hippogryph’s cover! Gorgeous, no?? I’ve been drooling over it for weeks now. (It has been weeks, right? Time moves so fast now, I can’t keep up with it.) And the novel’s blurb: Meet Rae, a senior in high school with a sharp tongue and a &hellip Continue reading »

…Actually, I haven’t been sleeping at all. On the contrary, I’ve been keeping quite busy with school and with writing! This Hippogryph Can’t Fly is coming along. It’s been a little bumpy since June–”life getting in the way”–but the first round of edits is halfway done. I feel the characters getting meatier and the story &hellip Continue reading »

Whee! I’m excited. Looks like my favorite childhood series, Animorphs, will be reprinted sometime this year or next. Brain-stealing aliens, shapeshifting kids fighting to save the planet, and…cinnamon buns. Does it get any better? No. No, it really doesn’t. ^_^ [Oh! Summer 2011. Nice.]

Woo-hoo! After a bit of a delay, This Hippogryph Can’t Fly has an editor! Wheeeee, I have butterflies in my stomach. This will be the first time I’ve been professionally edited. Dad doesn’t count. (Love you, Dad. ^_~ ) Looks like things are moving again. I just hope that I’ll be able to keep up with &hellip Continue reading »

My parents got a new puppy, a Shetland sheepdog. Ever since our miniature schnauzer, Pepper, died a year and a half ago, I’ve really been missing puppy love. Plenty of kitty love, and while kitty love is good, it’s just not the same for me. Gotta have those booger eyes staring up at you with &hellip Continue reading »

So, my first semester of graduate nursing school is complete…or so I thought. I returned Saturday night from a week-long camping trip to Ocala, FL to discover that I had somehow overlooked writing my term paper for one of my classes–a term paper worth half of my grade. Oh, yes. I freaked. I also promptly &hellip Continue reading »