Cedar Sanderson's Blog

Hey all! I’m announcing exciting news! The blog, in all it’s randomness, is moving solely to Substack. The website will still be here, but the look will change in the next week or so, and the blog archive will be behind a static page for me the author and artist. I hope you join me… Read More Blog Move

A snippet from the next Lilania Begley story! “The sheriff will need help.” He poured her mug first, then put some into the glass. He left it on the counter to cool for a moment. “If the storm was that bad, there will be people in trouble.”  They looked at one another. They both knew… Read More Odd Prompts: Dust Storm

This is a snippet of a short story which I plan to publish shortly under my penname, Lilania Begley. *** “Oh no, here it comes again.” “What?” He sounded confused. Which made sense, as he was under the vehicle and she was in it, staring out at the dusty landscape. “That dust devil. You’d better… Read More Odd Prompts; Djinn

If you’ve read my story in He Was Dead When I Got There, you’ll recognize the setting and a couple of characters. This is set in my Bluehills series, which will be released under my romance penname, Lilania Begley. *** Coffee and pie in hand, she stepped back out of the kitchen. She’d gotten halfway… Read More Odd Prompts: Slice of Pie

We rise, undaunted, into 2024. No matter what it brings to us, we have hope. Seek out what is good, what is true, what is incorruptible. Bring forth beauty in all it’s ineffable forms. Deny those who would espouse a world of gray futility or of black despair. This is not the future. There is, yet, another rising of… Read More Happy New Year!

He Was Dead When I Got There… launched yesterday and already we have an orange tag! I have both Vulcan’s Kittens and The Groundskeeper: Raking Up the Dead on sale, and you can find them along with many others at this sale… Because more books is a great plan heading into winter! Lastly, but certainly… Read More Books for Sale, Books on Sale

Gingerbread This is an annual treat for me, and I think every year I say I will make it more than once, and then there are other ideas and I forget. This time! This time I shall do it again… perhaps with apricot preserves instead of the applesauce, but I must remember to reduce the… Read More Gingerbread Recipe

  This delightful prompt gave me such good imagery in my head I couldn’t resist making it another visual week. One of the fun things about using the art program to render out my illustrations is tweaking it with illustration styles, like poring over books of old art and adopting little quirks that suit me.… Read More Squeeze the Moonbeams Lightly: Odd Prompt

Rather than attempt to write fiction and disrupt the work in progress, I opted to go with a visual response. What I got is a perfect illustration of why AI will never replace the human artist completely. I can immediately picture multiple ways to depict this: “The kitten knocked on the mousehole door.” I attempted… Read More Odd Prompts: The Kitten

A standalone vignette. I promise! I’m not going to turn it into a whole novella like I did with Running Into Time! *** Kerchunk-splat!  Devon ducked back behind the relative safety of the auditorium door. There had been a direct hit on the window in it, just moments before. The glass shattered, the metal mesh… Read More Odd Prompts: A Juicy Big Tomato