Friday Chatter: Meeting People
Well, this Friday Chatter is going up a day early because on Friday I’ll be on a train to Ottawa for Can*Con 2023! If any of you are in the area, feel free...
The Symbol Grounding Problem
Before we get into today's post, some news: RESURRECTIONS is up for pre-order on Kindle! (If you're not in the US, it may take a few days before it...
Meet me at Can*Con!
Can*Con is my “home” convention - close to where I live, smallish, literary-focused and full of excellent people. So I’ll be back there again this year,...
COVER REVEAL, NEW POEM, and poem notes!
I've got some really cool news for you today! First, feast your eyes on the OFFICIAL COVER for my upcoming collection, RESURRECTIONS: The planned release...
Friday Chatter: Difficulties
What’s a topic you find difficult to successfully approach in fiction? And - this second part is important - what’s an example of a time when you, or another...
The Courtroom Scene
So, in the draft of MOTHER DRAGON, there is a fantasy courtroom scene. Not literally a courtroom - it's a fantasy culture and our modern court system is not...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 80: The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
The newest Autistic Book Party is live on Wordpress! Click the link to find out why I loved this autistic YA by Maya MacGregor. Meanwhile: my poem “The Fox’s...
Things I've Been Reading
This is a feature I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. I love recommending autistic stories, but my reading life is more than just autism and sometimes I...
Keeping Short SFF Alive
For those of you who don't already know, Kindle Newsstand is closing, and magazine editors are freaking out. If you are like me, and not a heavy Kindle user,...
Announcing: RESURRECTIONS
Yesterday Apex Books gave Twitter users a sneak peak of the cover art for RESURRECTIONS - a new collection coming up on December 19. But of course I want to...
Friday Chatter: Accomplishments
The votes are in! There was a wide variety of different opinions about posting schedule, but we’re going with the most popular options: a paid essay every 2...
The Bittersweetness of a Finished Draft
If you're wondering about the results of last week's poll, I can't tell you yet - we still have one more day before it closes! There's still time to vote if...
A poll! Actually, 3 polls!
Happy August! So I hardly ever do this, but for the past few months I’ve been seriously rethinking how I do my schedule, and the Substack schedule is part of...
Enough.
This weekend, after listening patiently to my angst, a close friend told me to write down what "enough" looks like. (I had been complaining that I didn't...
Friday Chatter: Shapeshifting
In response to my review of “A Dragon In Two Parts,” Kiya Nicoll posted this meme: What would you do with your body if the sky was the limit?
Autistic Book Party, Episode 79 and a half: Short Story Smorgasbord
Over on Wordpress, it’s time for a Short Story Smorgasbord! It’s been a while since we had one of these, and I’ve also been getting better at keeping up with...
Friday Chatter: Venting
This week’s post was about venting techniques, in a sense. What venting techniques work for you? What helps you feel like you really “got a problem off your...
The Complaining Notes
One of the things I'm learning in therapy is how not to panic. This isn't an explicitly stated goal. I didn't come in saying, "I want help not panicking." (I...
Friday Chatter: Memory
I’m still chewing on the quote that I shared on Tuesday from “The Winter Knight,” about how memory can be nonlinear, like “a snarl of lights that needed to...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 79: The Winter Knight
Autistic Book Party is back this week, with a look at Jes Battis’s dreamy, surreal urban fantasy, “The Winter Knight.” If you’ve been here since April this...