Life
OMGXYZ Dragon Con
A number of friends have been urging me to go to Dragon Con in Atlanta for many years, and I confess, I was biased against it. “That looks so BIG. I bet it’s soulless and commercial, like San Diego Comic Read more
Blathering
What does success change?
At WorldCon, I got to meet up with one of my Clarion Classmates, Kodiak Julian, who asked me, “What’s it like, attending a convention like this, now that you’re this successful, published author, I mean with multiple books and everything?” Read more
Excerpts or Whole Work
How to do a Blog Tour!
You may have noticed I’ve been doing a blog tour to promote Andrei and the Hellcats. Thanks to the very kind author buddies who let me grace their pages! How do you do a blog tour? Well, first you find Read more
Blathering
Counting Fenceposts
Back in Elementary School, when we were learning to add and subtract on a number line, it didn’t work for me. I kept puzzling over it. I asked the teacher about it, if it mattered if you counted spaces or Read more
Blathering
Vi-Bear vs. Vi-Burt and What is Heritage?
When I got my ears pierced at seven years old, my dad gave me little fleur-de-lys earrings. I scrunched up my nose and asked, “The boy scout symbol?” “No! That’s the symbol of France! Your heritage! It’s a beautiful flower. Read more
Writing
Expressing Theme Through Action
“You bring this theme up, but you don’t do anything with it,” was a critique that drove me mad as a younger writer. What did they mean I didn’t “do” anything with it? I had a theme! I had characters Read more
project
Un-Finished Objects
I have become the finishing projects guru. (Here’s a blog post on how that happened. Did you know I even teach classes on how to finish your stuff? Yeah, even I am confused that this is me, now.) Two years Read more