I read something today that made my heart drop. It was an essay in a popular magazine and while I was reading, I heard the screaming of a dying relationship. In the piece, the woman was saying how she had never liked children, and now she was dating a man who had a small son. She didn’t love the son. … Read More
“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Nisa Swineford
Nisa lives in her children’s world of pretend during the day, which she extends into the night time hours by writing fantasy novels, teaching vocal lessons and composing music. She emerges from her daydreams to participate in religious and political activities so she can claim to be well-rounded and because she enjoys them. Her family consists of a super human … Read More
Love Letters: WIP Wednesday
Still over the moon about the Skipp anthology. But that doesn’t mean that I’m slacking. I threw down the gauntlet and issued a challenge to a few friends on Monday. Each one of us made it into an e-book, and that is pretty cool. Getting into an antho is always fun, but crashing the party as a group is even … Read More
My Job Description
Thank you guys so much for your good wishes. That totally rocked. I’m still excited, woo! So I’m guest blogging on Bria Quinlan’s blog. She’s doing a wonderful Job Description series, and I describe my job responsibilities as a writer and magazine staffer. I realize that I come off a little schizophrenic. Surely this surprises nobody. Anyway, swing by and read it … Read More
Yeehaw, Baby!
Okay, so the good news! I hope that all of you are familiar with John Skipp’s “Zombies: Encounters With The Hungry Dead”. It’s a fantastic anthology with some pretty amazing names: Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Jack Ketchum, Poppy Z. Brite, and Max Brooks, for example. I mean, this is a super solid book. And weighty. I know because I’ve … Read More
“Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks” Features Mason Ian
Mason Ian is the Prime Instigator of a secret gathering of interdimensional wombats known as, The Illiterati. He also likes long walks on the beach. As if all this wasn’t cool enough, Mason Ian is the yodeler and banjoist in the super-boy-girl-boy band Atlas Takes Aim. While not saving the world one dinosaur at a time he writes books and … Read More
I Have An Announcement!
‘Cept I can’t announce it to you until tomorrow. It’s about that lovely, lovely short story sale that I hinted about earlier. I was thinking that I had to keep my trap shut until, oh, I don’t know…May or so, but no! I can tell it to you tomorrow! But I won’t, because we have an absolutely wonderful, not-to-be-forgotten author … Read More
Honest Scrap
I have just received the Honest Scrap award from Janyece, Natalie, Cate, Alan, Heidi , J. Koyanagi, and Regan. This is not because I’m wildly popular (although I often let myself dream that these fine writers and I mingle at upscale parties, and man, is my repartee sparkling!) but because I was hecka slow at posting the Honest Scrap. So … Read More
A Delicately Beautiful Haunting
My darkly sweet story “A Delicately Beautiful Haunting” is up at 52 Stitches. It ran on Valentine’s Day, because that’s how I roll. You can read it here.
Where Have I Been?
You know how you get that writer’s high? The I Can Do Anything/I’m King Of The World/Life Is A Bowl Of Cherries feeling? Yeah, well, I haven’t been feeling that. But I’ve been close. Issue #2 of Shock Totem is slated for mid-March, and that’s very exciting. As some of you know, I’m the nonfiction person for ST, and they … Read More