Posts by E. Questell

Support your community by purchasing the book from a local Indie bookstore and get a free wooden bookmark handcrafted by the author, R. Ch. Garcia. Bookmarks are comprised of three sacred woods, salvaged or rescued by the author: redwood, black walnut & mesquite. To redeem a bookmark: Purchase the Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub…

In just a few seconds, What I’ve worked on for 2+ yrs. might happen. Finally! Hardest thing will be figuring out how to do a video so you’ll believe I really accomplished it. Video without scaring off iii, as I call him. A mountain chickadee is about to eat peanuts out of my hand. Although…

In my last post about #myyardbirds, I showed you Bandito, a mountain chickadee who eats peanuts out of my hand. What did I start? Have I gotten myself into mucho trouble? What happened this week began last Spring. Black-capped chickadees nested in our blue spruce, with three chicks for which I provided the parents meal…

Did you ever try to finish 4 term papers on 4 different subjects for 4 different classes? In a week? Ever fill out forms for 4 different jobs in 4 different trades for 4 different companies? In a week? That’s about what I did last week. 4 different queries about 4 different books to 4…

Sharing #1: My new novel Death Song of the Dragón Chicxulub is a melding of peoples, generations and species. Here’s a “taste”: In a somber tone, the bartender Julio said, “Bueno, if you might see el viejito Tomás tomorrow, you should have un traguito tonight. That way, when he chases you out of Los Búhos, you…

In just a few seconds, What I’ve worked on for 2+ yrs. might happen. Finally! Hardest thing will be figuring out how to do a video so you’ll believe I really accomplished it. Video without scaring off Bandito, as I call him. A mountain chickadee is about to eat peanuts out of my hand. Although…

Writing ideas come from everywhere, all the time, in many ways and forms, but working with wood is major for me. In this tab I’ll share both my amateur woodworks and musing thoughts that came with them. Your art teacher never encouraged you? You tutor frowned at your oboe toots when she didn’t think you’d…

I worked hours each day for over a month, trying to finish the neo-Aztec cuna in time for my son’s first-born. I found few images of what it could look like. Few because the Spaniards burned almost all the native libraries and codices in Mexico. Imagine if they had conquered Greece. I had parameters: as…

A great predator. No, not 45, something more natural, a Cooper’s Hawk, as far as I know. They’ve been around for years, sometimes as many as a family of four. [One  killed at our nearby park in the Northside.] Below are sitings, none of them great. The first was across the street, where Hawk took…