Many worlds, many feelings
If you’ve read either of my novellas, you might’ve guessed that I love multiverse stories, or any tale about alternate worlds and alternate selves. It’s the...
Dawn of the Horror Writing Class: The Awakening
I've been attempting to write a newsletter for...over a month now, but they keep getting away from me. One has turned into a 2000+ word essay about gender...
Cover Reveal & Interview: Suzan Palumbo's SKIN THIEF
I'm so excited to be hosting my very first cover reveal (of many? one can only dream), for none other than Lesbian Satan herself, Suzan Palumbo. You might...
Seasonally spooky recommendations
I full intended to write a newsletter this month about the brilliance of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, the perfect one-season anime about teenage girls...
Let's get together, before we get much older
It’s September 2007, fifteen years ago. I live in Olympia, Washington, and I’m taking my second year-long break from college. I have moved out of the weird...
On finishing a Frankenstein draft
Greetings from the other side of having FINISHED A DRAFT. Was it a good draft? No. Can it be fixed? God, I hope so. This is the biggest problem-child rewrite...
Horror Writing Course 2: The Revenge!
It's baaaaack! I'll be teaching another round of Thrills and Chills: Horror Story Writing starting September 10. This 4-part class taught through Atlas...
5 lessons from learning to be a teacher
I fell into being a teacher mostly by accident during my MFA. I fully expected to hate teaching. My first semester, I did, and apologies to anyone in that...
Long live the memeification of unionized labor
Worker solidarity has become a meme, and honestly? THAT’S GREAT. I am 100% for the mimetic dissemination of radical labor organization. I love that Chuck...
Can we find comfort in horror stories in hard times?
I’ve been trying and failing to write this letter since Monday, because any good news is constantly tempered by the fact that there’s war happening in...
(some of the) 2022 books I'm personally hype for
Welcome to the 2022 Q1 Hype Train Me, six weeks ago: I'm going to write a newsletter of 2022 books that I'm greedily awaiting. Me, on Tuesday: Oh shit, the...
Things that genuinely gave me joy in 2021
I had a long and very melancholy post written, but nobody needs to be subjected to me trying to find meaning in the fact that I've been suffering from...
"The Great Resignation" would be a good book title
And one that I'm sure some clever author will steal for their re-imagining of CS Lewis's The Great Divorce. Instead of a rainy town as purgatory, it's a...
Revision Diary: Zeno’s Paradox
So, funny story: back in late April, I threw out the two months of work I’d done on Burned and Buried and pretty much started over. I’d been making progress...
Weddings, readings, and panels (oh my)
Hello and happy spring, friends! May and June are shaping up to be busy for me, so here's a quick rundown of where you can find me over the next couple...
Put it in my eyeballs: new(ish) trans and queer books to be excited about
I'm still buried deep in novel rewrites and wedding planning, so no essays or reviews are forthcoming for now. Instead, this is just a quick round-up of...
When book promotion turns into teachable gender moments
You all know I'm trans, right? I put it front and center on all of my bios: "Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer," followed by several examples...
Hugo noms, preorders, and panels (oh my)
It is finally SPRING here in NYC, which means a dizzying back-and-forth between beautiful, bright, warm days that you long to spend sprawled out in a park...
news and notes
PERSONAL NEWS, BOTH SMALLISH AND BIGGISH, BECAUSE IT SURE HAS BEEN A WEEK. Hugo nominations close in THREE DAYS! If you are able to nominate and have not yet...
So what are you reading?
Fanfic is my ultimate comfort read-slash-coping mechanism, and my relationship to it is not always super healthy. Where I used to read fanfic to participate...
