Welcome to My Very Own Strand of the Web
This page contains many things from the surprisingly ordinary files of Award-winning writer (no, seriously)
Kathy R. Coleman,
who lives spectacularly (through the lives of her characters).
This is me. (As you can see, my eating habits were established young.)
I am an artist and a writer. Consider this website, like all artists' websites, a work in progress (and it will progress, once in a while. Really).
Each of my many interests will be highlighted here if I think they're interesting to anyone else (or even if they're not!). Bear in mind I like just about everything, so this place will never be finished. But I'll add more as I think of things.
COWBOYS
Love Country Music?
I mean REAL Country Music (not that crap Nashville cranks out)? Check out Take Country Back! and read some of my reviews as well as some excellent commentary, all dedicated to Real Country Music.Also, I write reviews for About.com at their country music site: My Reviews at About Country Music
As well as reviews and a monthly article (Raf's Real Country) at CountryFans.net
Some more favorites of mine:
Dave Insley's home page My own Dave Insley page The main Dwight Site: The Dwight Yoakam Home Page My own Dwight site: My Dwight Yoakam Page Dale Watson, the Greatest Unknown Real Country Singer Alive: Dale Watson and His Lone Stars (Check him out, buy all his albums. He's the best!) Jesse Dayton, coolest of the cool: Jesse Dayton Home And of course, Country's Living Legend: Merle Haggard Plus, the amazing Kane And Arizona boy Troy Olsen
For more on real country music today, you can check out these terrific places:
The Americana Music Association
The Bakersfield Sound
Little Dog Records
Plus, a great place to buy Texas music: Texas Music Roundup
Dale Watson and Me, July 6, 2004
VAMPIRES
I finished my rather long vampire romance novel - titled Ring of Fire - it won Second Place in the 2005 Southwestern Writers annual competition, gaining me a few bucks and a little attention for my writing. I will be sending it to a publisher as soon as I cut it down to a managable length - the finished first draft was almost 300,000 words! Someday, obviously, if it sells and I get, you know, fans or something, I'll offer that finished first draft to anyone who wants to slodge through it. {big grin} Seriously, if there is anyone reading this page who would like to comment on a book I haven't sold yet, I'll take any comments/criticism. Currently I have it around about 200,000 words or so.
Drop me a line: My home email
I actually started the sequel to this book before the first is even finished, the characters won't let me go. Of course, some of the first book has now been moved into the second.
If anyone is actually interested in my book, let me know. I'd like people to read it.
Someday, if I can learn myself how to draw again, I'll draw a good enough picture of Sean Patrick O'Connor, vampire and cowboy, to share. I still can't really draw anymore. I don't know what happened to me!
I am still dedicated to Angel, once merely the spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but a show which came into its own as a smart, funny, dark, and superior television show. Alas, Angel has been cancelled by the WB, and all the grand campaigning by dedicated fans couldn't save it. I'll miss Angel. It was a great show, one of the best.
Now, there's some really fine, fine Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fic out there, keeping the show alive even though it's gone now.
Check out the awesome works of my partner, Barb Cummings.
I did one BtVS story, which is here.
If you're an Angel fan and know who did this lovely art, let me know so I can credit them properly, because I don't remember where I got it:
My Livejournal
Some of my LJ icons
Some more stuff:
I am still losing weight. Check me out. My tribute to a very special cat named Kojiki.
Another of my insanities: The Monkees!
The Tai-Pan, an anthropomorphic ("furry") fanzine. Check out Mike Nesmith's great site The Videoranch! The Monkees Home Page for info, merchandise, and more! Talk to me!: raif51@cox.net
