Queer writer of speculative and YA fiction
I wrote a guest post for Scott McGlothlen at his blog. It was inspired by an eye procedure I had done last year, not long after my 54th birthday. The confluence of those two events got me thinking about getting older and my relationship to time. (And, no big surprise, there's a Star Trek reference …
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From the outside, writing looks like long, nearly endless stretches of Nothing interrupted by brief, fairly loud instances of Something, which last hardly any time before sinking back below the surface of Nothing again. Hopefully, each Something offers a writer enough momentum to get through the Nothing until the next Something arrives. All of which …
Writing a book and sending it out into the world is always a weird process. It takes so long, by the time it’s released, it doesn’t feel like something I did. I look at the cover and read the words and think, did I write that? Suffice it to say, I did it with a …
Continue reading "Reminder: Virtual Launch Event Tonight (Feb. 16) with Left Bank Books (!!!)"
Join me on Tuesday, Feb. 16 with my fellow writers J. Marshall Freeman and ’Nathan Burgoine for the virtual launch of our YA book Three Left Turns to Nowhere. Presented by Left Bank Books and hosted by Shane Mullen, the event will stream on Facebook Live and YouTube at 7 p.m. Central Time. Holy cow, …
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So, last week was the first Monday of the month, which means that Cait Gordon did her monthly flash fiction draw writing prompt. If you're not familiar, this is where she draws one card each from three suits of cards, specifying a genre, setting, and an object that must be included in the story. Participants …
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To catch you up, this month I'm taking part in #WriterInMotion, where I write a 1,000-word story and document my revision process. Last week, I posted my first draft, and since then, I've done a self-edit on it. As a reminder, here's the photo prompt again: Photo by Rahul Pandit on Unsplash If you'll recall, my first draft …
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Yes, I still have a novel to finish revising. And yes, I have a novella I'm working on releasing myself (more on that later). And yes, the monthly Flash Fiction Challenge run by Cait Gordon is due on Monday. So what am I doing? Writing another story for a different challenge. I never said my …
I don't know about you, but for the most part, I haven't had much luck with focused reading lately. So far I've only finished five books since January (update: I just finished reading book #6 this week, Sourdough by Robin Sloan, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, probably because I've been baking a lot of sourdough …
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