The Zombie Walk was AWESOME. I was a little girl zombie with a possessed teddy bear…that was actually so convincing that I threw it away at The Plaza. Scary, scary thing. I wasn’t there by myself, either. Jeremy D. Brooks, master of all things gory and prop-like, couldn’t make it because he was doing something just as awesome. But I … Read More
My Heart Goes Out To You, Stranger
And who is this elusive stranger, you ask, and what have they done that makes my heart go out to them? They Google a sensitive subject, and then they follow that link to my site. This particular stranger Googles “you are adopted” and ends up here: And then a good time is had by all. After the trauma goes … Read More
Music To Write By
Holy SNAP, it’s almost time for NaNoWriMo! While technically I know this (because it’s October 22, for crying out loud!) things have been so crazy lately that it hasn’t had time to sink in. Well, you know what? I just passed by a calendar. And there are, count them, nine days until NaNo! *cue incessant screaming* No concrete idea yet, … Read More
What A Prize!
So, this rocks. Enter Tweet the Meat’s Halloween contest, and what can you win? A copy of Shock Totem’s debut issue, signed by the very scary Kurt Newton and the not-so-scary Yours Truly! Or I can be scary. Whatever you wish.
For Those I Love Back Home
I come from a small town. We spent our time walking down to the corner store to get candy, riding four wheelers in the backyard, and snooping in everybody’s business. My neighbor would wait on her porch for me to return home from dates, effectively quashing any front-door kissing shenanigans. If I drove too recklessly, my mother always received an admonishing phone … Read More
Dog Oil Press
Thanks for all of your support, everybody! We started Baby Girl on seizure meds tonight, and we’re also doing an EKG and an MRI soon. My son is also lined up to do a EKG and MRI, for a completely unrelated reason. I made some little quip about just throwing them both in the machines together to save time and … Read More
Just A Quick Note: In Which We’re Not Dead
Dear friends, What a weekend! I can honestly say that I am literally thrilled that we all survived it. My daughter had more seizures (we’re hitting the neurologist tomorrow), my husband rolled his four wheeler and is all right (he managed to push it away from his head, and then it rolled a dozen times down the hill without him), a little … Read More
Take A Hammer To That Writer’s Block
Man, I have been suffering. Suffering! I can’t concentrate; I can’t focus. I can’t write a darn thing. I had a beautiful first line to a story and then…nada. Too much pressure, perhaps? High expectations? I’m not sure, but it’s a miserable thing. Generally I give myself a little break and the world opens up for me again. But this … Read More
WIP Thursday. Just ‘cuz.
I feel like I’m buried under projects, and I need to dig myself out before NaNoWriMo. This morning I came to the conclusion that I’m going to have to let some things go. There are a couple of anthology deadlines that I’m just going to miss, and that’s okay. I’m trying to prioritize, and it’s interesting how things are shaking … Read More
Hey, Baby. Let’s Write A Novel Together.
I’m talking about NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month to the uninitiated. The basic concept is that you write a 50,000 world novel in the month of November. Yes, that’s 50k in 30 days. Yes, there’s a great big American holiday in the middle of it. Yes, that’s a lot of words. 1,667 a day, to be exact. Rock … Read More