7 Hot Takes About Shared Universes
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I Found the Most Complicated Process For Creating a Supporting Cast Because That's How I Roll
It's finally here! Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak, the second book in my young adult trilogy, is finally available to request on Netgalley. If you read it,...
Five Times I Almost Died
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I've Finally Arrived as a Short Story Writer!
One of my long-time dreams is about to come true next week. I'm about to have a real, proper collection of my best short stories, out from a major publisher....
Three Factors That Make a Community Fall Apart in the Face of Disaster
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Pop Culture Lied To Us: Shared Dangers Don't Always Bring Us Together
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Why Is It So Hard To Imagine The United States Staying United?
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Animal-Based Superheroes, Ranked
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I'm Proud To Be a Bad Trans Person
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I've Been Trying to Imagine a Fascist United States for Nearly Twenty Years
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Everything I Learned From Working on Season One of Y: The Last Man
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How "Bending the Landscape" Helped to Queer Speculative Fiction Forever
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Prepare to Fall Outrageously in Love with Blake's 7
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4 Good Pieces of Writing Advice (That Are Often Misinterpreted)
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Here's a Deleted Scene From Victories Greater Than Death!
Hey everybody! My young adult space fantasy novel Victories Greater Than Death is just $2.99 in all of the ebook formats right now, which means it's a great...
You Don't Always Slay Or Flee Your Demons — Often, They Just Shrink Down
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If You Like The Suicide Squad, You Ought To Love John Ostrander
There are a bunch of reasons I’m over-the-moon excited about The Suicide Squad, including the stacked cast and the hilarious trailers. And I’m always here...
The Hottest Trend in Entertainment Right Now Is Meeting Yourself
Marvel finally gave the trickster god Loki his own TV show, but with a major twist: there's more than one Loki. In addition to Tom Hiddleston's charmingly...
Useful Writing Advice Is a Little Like Therapy
The other day, I was tweeting about my upcoming book of writing advice, Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories. And...
Some Vital Formative Experiences All Cis Women Share (Which Trans Women Don't)
We are once again debating whether trans women are really women, becuase it's a day ending in shrieks and blood-spattered mirrors and cries of damnation....