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May is always weird for me, a time of trauma, transitions, and STUFF. This year was a good one, overall, but very busy. Along with ALL THE WRITING (orz) the organization I work for, Novo Collegian Alliance, helped current graduating students of New College of Florida hold the fourth annual alternative graduation, [NEW] Commencement 2026!

We also held two screenings in Sarasota of the heart-rending documentary about the New College takeover, First They Came for MY College. Ca...

I always hate to be the bearer of bad news.

I think of that often when I talk about grief, especially after being made an adult orphan at such a young age. Everyone hopes that time heals all wounds, but alas, the best metaphor I know of is that we grow around them, like a tree growing around a nail in its trunk. Our lives get longer, bigger, more complicated but the nail is there, rusting in the dark.

So it is I introduce this fa...

So if you don’t know (why would you?) I’ve been car-less since about 2010. Yes, really. Yes, I mean “not owning a car.” Yes, yes, NO CAR AT ALL.

I know that in Florida that is near insanity, since about 98.9% of the state’s “public transportation” is hardly worth either description. But I made due, primarily because of the luck of living in Midtown Tallahassee, which is a neighborhood sandwiched between the suburbs and downtown. If you followed Keely’s Way, you have seen a lot of it vi...

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Pretty much at the moment of my birth, my mother decided that she had a writing prodigy on her hands.

The hilarious part is I didn’t actually learn how to read until I was about five, maybe six, y...

Hey y’all, it’s KimBoo! I’m an author and a podcaster who is also a librarian, text technology historian, and former I.T. project manager. I write about a lot of interesting things, I hope you agree! Please consider supporting me so I can keep throwing errata & etcetera into the Scriptorium!

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It’s been a few years since I created the Deck of Life. Not that it existed in any format outside of my scrivener file for it, but it was there…haunting me…

To cut through the mystery: it is a car...

About a week ago I came down with something that was maybe norovirus or something like it. I didn’t get a fever or body aches just, uh, intestinal upset. The intestines, they were displeased and let me know it! Knocked me out for a day or so and I thought I was on the mend.

And then the coughing started.

The past four days have been me fighting with my respiratory system about breathing. Ughhhhhh. I’m feeling better and coughing less, at least, and hope this is the upswing. If I have t...

I guess when you decide to start a whole business venture (Serial Nation!) while working part time for your alma mater’s independent alumni organization (Novo Collegian Alliance!) while also updating backlist books to republish (so many books!) while also writing new fiction (Dragon’s Grail!) while also staying fed, hydrated, and rested is…uhm, a lot? Yikes.

Oh yeah, it’s LIVE! I’ve created it to be THE best place to learn about the craft and business of serials, s...

By which I mean, North Florida. It’s noon and the temp is just 35°F, which isn’t terrible but only if you are a polar bear. We even got snow flurries!

I mean, last year we got actual piles of snow, which was surreal:

There seems to be a trend these days of GenX getting their nostalgia on. We’re an odd-one-out generation, usually forgotten and often maligned. An...

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For years and years at the start of January, my friends and I have subjected ourselves to the popular visualization practice of “imagine where you want to be in five years.”

We all know that as an...

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Here’s a fun question for every author who spends too much time staring at the “keywords” box on Amazon: what exactly is metadata, and why should you care?

Okay maybe it’s not that fun, but it is ...