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Calling all readers and writers who are readers…this October (which is, you know, SOON) brings a lot of awesome thing like Inktober, spoopies and creppies, and now the #fallforbooksmugglers challenge! You can find the prompts here on Instagram, and I’m posting a pic to make it even easier for you to play. Stay tuned all … Continue reading October Bookstagram Challenge: #fallforbooksmugglers

Happy 2018, everybody! I was thinking, as people often do, about what a new year means. Resolutions, goals, arbitrary distinctions and constructs we call time…these are all important and warrant introspection. What I came away with, though, was one phrase–new year, same me. Not new me. While it’s true that my sense of self adapts […]

  Hello lovely readers, and happy Wednesday! I’m peeking in mid-week to wave hello, and to talk a little more about what’s up in my writerly world. This year saw the release of my sci-fi novella Temporary Duty Assignment and prequel story Nice, both from The Book Smugglers. It was such a joy to be […]

Hello, intrepid readers, and I hope you are all well and thriving! I’ve been thinking a lot in recent days about timelines for upcoming projects, setting off on new writing adventures, and how thrilled I am to share these adventures with readers in the near future. It seems appropriate that a tremendously important narrative facet […]

Hi there! I hope you are all well and thriving this near-the-end-of-October day. I wanted to send out a quick note to let you know that I’ve been doing some much-needed maintenance on my sundry writer’s accounts, and have made some changes based on recent reader feedback. For ease of searching, my Twitter handle is […]

Since earlier this year, I have been sinking deeper into chronic pain. Context: When I was around 10, the plum tree branch on which I was perched broke and I crashed onto my left knee. In the early 90’s, I pivoted wrong and broke my right (I have crazy hyperextensive stuff going on…not quite Fantastic […]

Happy Equinox! Equinox…that whole business with the sun crossing the celestial equator, making it so that all over the planet there is roughly the same amount of day and night. Here in my hemisphere it’s the autumn equinox, Mabon, in the wheel of the year–a time of balance, a time of change. I always try […]

Salut, all! I hope you are thriving as well as you can these days. This week has been a sky-full-of-lights, all-hands-on-deck busy week for me, WHEW. /collapses My new sci-fi novella Temporary Duty Assignment is finally out in the world, waiting to be read, to find a home on your shelf or nestled amongst the […]