marie holds up the best of apex magazine in front of a fireplace

Best of Apex Magazine

I am very proud and honored to have my story “Keep Talking” In the Best of Apex Magazine Anthology.  This story won Apex’s Story of the Year for 2014.  The Oxford Cultural Review reviewed the anthology, and it ends with this glowing praise of my story: To my mind, the anthology’s Read more

a roll of film

The Last Jedi

No, I don’t normally do movie reviews here. (I keep that on my Female Chauvinist Movie Reviews series on Livejournal.)  However, this movie is consuming my brain and I feel like it is a very important case study in story telling, theme and plot. Blanket review above-the-spoilers:  This movie, whenever Read more