FF: Shiny Comicon
This week’s Flashback Friday: Shiny Comicon. Because I’m at the Emerald City Comicon, I don’t have the time to type up a fully fleshed Flashback Friday. Instead, I leave you with an image of my first comicon in 2012. It Read More…
Depression Lies, But It Is Real
One of the highlights of Norwescon 39 was meeting other authors that I’d only talked to on social media. One of those authors, Logan Masterson, had messaged me the month before because he was excited to be on a panel Read More…
Norwescon Wrap-Up
It’s Monday, the day after Norwescon 39 ended, and even though authors aren’t supposed to “tell” more than necessary, let me tell you that I am bone tired. The lack of sleep and running around with my head cut off Read More…
A Book Walks Into a Publishing House
Joy to the Worlds got two more reviews recently. One of them begins with, “So an undead hunting party, a spaceship whodunnit, and a cursed family walk into a publishing house…” Quite fitting for Joy to the Worlds. You can Read More…
FF: Gravitational waves
For this week’s Flashforward Friday: The Discovery of Gravitational Waves. Yesterday, physicists announced that they had finally proven the last of Einstein’s theories–the existence of gravitational waves. For most people, this announcement is meaningless, but for science fans and science Read More…
Throwback Thursday: English Teacher
Rather than the typical Book Cover Throwback Thursday, I’m throwing back to my first classroom. Before I was a writer, I was a computer teacher, and before that, an English teacher. And I promise there’s a reason I’m thinking of Read More…
Sneaky Little Snippets
I should be writing a Flashback Friday or something, but I’ve been way too busy writing fiction and prepping for our move. It’ll have to wait. Sent off a revision of a short story last night for a possible anthology. Read More…
Always
I was going to post something about the passing of Alan Rickman–another great artist taken by cancer–but tomorrow is RustyCon, and I honestly don’t have the strength or the time. I saw him first in Die Hard, loved how he Read More…
Lessons in Weird from the Goblin King
The year was 1986. Jim Henson was all the rage–especially to me, age 8. Labyrinth came out in June that year and was a “box office disappointment.” So much so that Jim Henson’s son, Brian, called it “one of the Read More…
Flashback Friday: A New Year
This week’s Flashback Friday: A New Year! Flashbacks are typically about looking back, but why do we bother if not to find our way forward? I’m a firm believer that the decisions and events of our past form and shape Read More…
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