May 24, 2017

This post first appeared at blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on December 4, 2012. Back in October [2012], I attended the Ozark Creative Writers Conference.  Daniela Rapp, an editor with St. Martin’s Press, spoke there.  While she represents mostly genres that I don’t even think about writing, she gave a very good workshop on the basics of publishing –…

heart, keep your heart, diligence
June 19, 2016

This post first appeared blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on January 15, 2012. Keep your heart with all diligence For out of it spring the issues of life. ~ Proverbs 4:23 NKJV What does it mean to “keep your heart with all diligence?” Perhaps first we need to know what it means that “out of it spring the issues…

September 22, 2014

I really didn’t mean to disappear from the interwebs for the last half of last week, but life happens. Now I’m trying to catch up, lol! But during that ‘last half of last week’, my third installment of Worldbuilding a Religion went up at Fantasy Faction! So, go read! How Religion Shapes Characters I will…

June 17, 2014

In light of some of the controversy and discussions going around the internet about young adult fiction (and also because it’s been a doozy of a week/weekend and I really don’t have any posts prepped this week), I’m going to share a post I wrote back in April on the Ferret blog. It’s both a…

June 12, 2014

The Stories of Tomorrow are like children – they are our future. Right now, National Novel Writing Month is creating tomorrow’s stories, but they need some help. Their website for the NaNoWriMo Young Writer’s Program needs a rebuild, and so that means they need funds to accommodate it. If you have $10 (or more) to…

About Rebekah

Rebekah Loper writes character-driven epic fantasy featuring resilient women in trying and impossible circumstances who just want to save themselves but usually end up saving the world, often while falling in love.
She lives in Tulsa, OK with her husband, dog, two formerly feral cats, a small flock of feathered dragons (...chickens. They're chickens), and an extensive tea collection. When she's not writing, she battles the Oklahoma elements in an effort to create a productive, permaculture urban homestead.