At least that's over: 2025 review and recs
For the past decade or so, every December has seen a run of “At least THAT’S over” posting about the outgoing year. 2025 isn’t going to be different. We are...
Story Announcement, Zines, and Dead Girls in Paperback
This autumn has been very good and very busy. Busy enough that this is basically just a bullet point list of updates, plus a cat pic, because who doesn’t...
Truth coming out of her well to shame the bullsh*tters
News about zines, classes, and paperbacks, followed by a rant about spreading misinformation.
Worldcon Schedule!
I will be at Worldcon in Seattle starting tomorrow! I am also on deadline to finish my book and coordinating tabling for Authors Against Book Bans, so if you...
"The forest is weird and we are gay"
I’ve been wanting to write more zines lately. Novels are long projects, at least for me. Even without the special circumstances that stretched Dead Girls...
The post-deadline malaise (plus C2E2 & Can*Con news)
I turned in a revised draft of my next novel, Every Room a Hunger, last Monday. I spent the four preceding days ensconced in a cheapish hotel here in Queens...
Organizing your workplace: some 101-level things to know
I know a lot of people in non-profit, education, and advocacy work who have been seeing their employers ignore the whole “do not comply in advance” directive...
Miles to go
It feels like there are new disasters every month, and when there aren’t, there are ongoing ones to chew over. I’ve struggled for the last few years against...
Highs and Lows, Ins and Outs
So I started writing a newsletter that was a meditation on the long arc of my gender transition—recounting both anniversaries (7 years since my legal name...
Dead Girls Don't Dream out today!
Happy birthday to this weird little book. Dead Girls is the first novel I ever fully drafted, the book that came close to breaking me in revisions, and is...
A post full of distractions
My book is out next Tuesday. The US elections are THIS Tuesday. My nervous system is in full fight-or-flight mode. So this newsletter is a full-on link spam...
The only ghost story that happened to me
Over on Bluesky, Georgina Kiersten was asking for folks’ stories of hauntings. I have one, but thought I’d share it here instead. It’s seasonally...
Robert Heinlein would hate me
[Before we get started, the writer Scott Lynch has very graciously offered to pay for three people to attend my 4-week horror writing course, and there is...
Single braincell summer
So this week, I decided to try watching 9-1-1, an ABC drama about LA firefighters that is popular on Tumblr (the last social media site where I still enjoy...
a belated TDOV newsletter
Yesterday was Trans Day of Visibility1, which is, hmm, something I have complicated feelings about. Like, I'm celebrating my visibility in a society that has...
AWP; Dead Girls on Edelweiss and NetGalley; cat tax
Quick email of news! First bit of news: I'll be at AWP this week, speaking on a panel with an incredible line up of other trans authors. The Trans Fantastic:...
Foz Meadows' FINDING ECHOES – Excerpt and chat
Hey, friends! I'm sick again (fourth time in two months, ugh) so I was thrilled (read: blearily excited between coughing fits) when Neon Hemlock asked if I'd...
Cover reveal: DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM
If you've been subscribed to this newsletter for a while, you'll know that I've been working on a novel for approximately 43 years, or since about 2019,...
Mini-interview! Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin on Why Didn't You Just Leave
Hello friends! Instead of your usual programming, I've got a mini-interview with Julia Rios and Nadia Bulkin, co-editors of the forthcoming horror anthology...
Summer Updates and Excerpts
It's been a while since I've posted any kind of substantial update on my writing and teaching, so here we go! First bit of news: I'll be teaching my 4-week...
