Life
My Year in Not Writing
I wonder if all my focus on what I’m doing as a writer means, well, that in ten years or so I’ll look back and forget anything I did that wasn’t writing? So here are some things that happened this Read more
Announcement
Marie Tour 2025
How is it the year 2025?? I feel like we’re moving past “jet pack” and into “If man is still alive…” Anyway, I have a book coming out in July. Galactic Hellcats 2: Andrei and the Hellcats! So I am Read more
Excerpts or Whole Work
Home is Dinner Every Night
There was an essay contest on the theme of “What is home?” and though I didn’t win, I did end up on the short list. So, here’s what I wrote. A little slice of autobiographic essay. Home is Dinner Every Read more
Writing
My 2024 Author Year in Review
It’s that time! Looking back, it was a chaotic year. I worked harder at self-promotion, I had ten stories come out, but my year was really marked by teaching. I taught: Not to mention all the panels I did at Read more
Announcement
State of the Blog
I have managed to blog almost every week for over a year now. I’m proud of the accomplishment, but I do feel somewhat burned out. Was it worth it, writing the past fifty blog posts? In some ways. I have Read more
Life
What I’m Up To
I have 17 blog post drafts, but I don’t feel comfortable posting any of them just now. I’ve been… rather busy. Doing what, you say? Let’s list. I feel simultaneously like I am doing nothing and doing too much. Good Read more
Life
What Did You Get for $5000 and Six Weeks of Your Life?
I wrote this blog post shortly after returning from the Clarion Workshop, in August, 2013. A friend is collecting blog posts about Clarion, and that made me seek it out on my old Livejournal. I’m moving it here for her Read more