No, I’ve not bought myself some new pets. While I’m enjoying the spring flowers and warmer weather, I’m not thrilled with the birds using my front porch as a public restroom. Not wanting to use traps or poison or anything noisy, I thought I’d resort to trickery instead. Hence the plastic snakes sunning themselves on …
Have You Ever Done This? It’s another entry in my stupid moves file… I was at the grocery store and was ready to pay. No credit card. I had my drivers’ license and shopping reward card, but nothing else. The sympathetic cashier said she’d ring it all up and would put my cart at customer …
I’m deep in the second act of the Girl Who Wrote on Water, and it’s getting exciting. While I’ve made sure that Derya encounters lots of troubles along the way, now she’s in for some confrontations with magical creatures. First, a sardonic winged horse, then an ambush of wyverns. And she hasn’t even gotten to …
I’m giving The Girl Who Broke the Dark a rest while I draft the second in the series, tentatively titled The Girl Who Wrote on Water. But in between writing sessions, I was a guest on Vlogging Pod’s Podcast with Eri Nelson. It’s a quick twenty minute interview, and you can hear about the inspiration …
Have You Heard of the Miraculous Small Flat Squares? “What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.” — Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird Isn’t a miracle that words on …
Last week I was a guest on the Sample Chapter Podcast, and had a great conversation with host Jason Meuschke. Some of the things we talked about were: To listen to the episode, click here. And if you enjoyed the episode, I’d love it if you’d leave a review.
Last month I dove into research, looking for seeds of inspiration for worldbuilding for the yet-to-be-named world for my new series. Now that I’ve uncovered all kinds of fun stuff to work into the books, I’m working on plotting out the second book in the series. Sometimes I surprise myself at the direction the story …
Now that the holidays are over, I’m diving into my new series. Even though I’ve made a lot of progress on the opener, The Girl Who Broke the Dark, I still get to spend a lot of time on my favorite part of writing: Research. No, this isn’t like doing research for a school project …
I don’t know about you, but 2022 was a wild year for me. A wedding here, a week at the beach there, and covid made not one but two visits to our house…and we lived to tell the tale. Add to that publishing Flood of the Fire, releasing Flight of the Spark in audio, and …
Online sci-fi/fantasy magazine Bewildering Stories has published my short story Green Cheese and Stardust. If you like whimsical stories with quirky characters, you’ll love this New Year’s portal story. There are a bunch of free reads in Bewildering Stories: parts of a novel and serial, a pair of short stories, and more. If you’re looking …