Welcome to Doc Says Rawr… the official website of author and historian Erin M. Klitzke.
The Ramble
Welcome to the ramble, where you’ll find musings, prompts, and other errata that comes out of my brain.
Of Starships and Intergalactic Wars
Probably ten years ago, when the Internet was a younger space and podcasting and the concepts of web fiction and indie e-publishing were young, I ended up guesting on a podcast dedicated to web fiction, talking about Awakenings initially. The conversation with the host eventually drifted to my recently released book, Broken Stars, about which …
Processing
Sometimes inspiration comes from dark places. As I imagine many writers–especially writers of speculative fiction–do, often I use my writing as a tool to process and cope with things in the world beyond my control. As a trained social scientist with degrees in history, anthropology, and political science, I view the world through a unique …
Twenty Years Later
It’s been twenty years since that beautiful, sunny Tuesday morning. I was at work yesterday, talking to a coworker who was in elementary school when it happened, and then talking to another coworker who hadn’t even been born when it happened, about the day. Thursday evening, I’d watched the History Channel documentary series Road to …
About
Erin Klitzke is a self-confessed gamer chick, geek-girl, and writer living in Michigan. This site is a home for her musings, ramblings, and rantings unconfined to any specific topics. Her major interests include history, writing, Renaissance festivals, science fiction and fantasy, tabletop RPGs, and various console and computer RPGs. She’s recently moved to Grand Rapids and returned to school for a second bachelor’s degree and teaching certification for secondary education (middle and high school).
She’s currently working on several major writing projects, having completed her master’s thesis on the uses of the Arthurian legend under Edward I-III of England back in 2011. These projects include a few projects left over from NaNoWriMos past, When All’s Said and Done and When the Gods Cry, Awakenings, The Last Colony and Ashes to Ashes. She’s also hard at work on the sequel to Epsilon: Broken Stars, Epsilon: Redeemer and the next several installments of the UNSETIC Files series.
She can be contacted via e-mail at doc (at) embklitzke (dot) com or at athensmcleod (at) hotmail (dot) com.
What do you write?
- Fantasy (urban, epic)
- Science fiction (space opera, adventure)
- Paranormal
- Post-apocalyptic
- Non-fiction (history, political science, writing and technical how-to manuals)
If you like…
- The X-Files
- Check out the UNSETIC Files
- Star Wars
- Check out the books in the Epsilon universe
- Check out Legacies of the Lost Earth
- Palladium’s Beyond the Supernatural
- Check out the UNSETIC Files
- Palladium’s Rifts
- Check out Awakenings
- Stargate
- Check out the UNSETIC Files
- The Pretender
- Check out the Lost Angel Chronicles
- Revolution
- Check out Awakenings
- Earth2
- Check out Legacies of the Lost Earth
- Mythology
- Check out Awakenings
- White Wolf’s World of Darkness
- Check out the UNSETIC Files
- Arthurian legend
- Check out Awakenings
- Check out Intersection with the Once and Future King
- Medieval history
- Check out Intersection with the Once and Future King