This is a small thing. You can write a letter. It’s also a huge thing. You can write a letter. See, our government representatives still respond more to letters than the do to emails, Facebook, or Twitter hashtags. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do those, too, but there’s this other thing you can do. […]
If you are looking for an action to take, about Orlando, write a letter. Read More »
Rob took this photo. a) I had no idea he was in the room. b) I had no idea that both cats were on me. I’m losing most of my saving throws against napping, and I’m fine with that. Smells are more vivid, which will be great when I’m cooking, but less exciting around the cats’
Surgery recovery continues well Read More »
I had surgery on Friday to correct a deviated septum, turbinate hypertrophy, and collapsed nasal valves. I’ve been posting pictures of myself in the recovery process, because I think medicine is neat. But you — you decided that it would be funny to make a joke that I had black eyes because my husband hit
This isn’t funny — stop it. Read More »
I am home! There is grapefruit-peppercorn sorbet. My surgeon pulled the nasal tampons out and that is so much more accurate a name that rocket. Like… wow. I could immediately breathe better than I could before I went in and that was while I still have swelling and a brief nosebleed. (Totally normal.) Seriously. I
Home! I’m discharged from the hospital and have sorbet Read More »
Yesterday’s surgery seems to have gone well. I still have bi-lateral rhino-rockets in my nose and am really, really looking forward to having them removed. I’ve been told that they are called nose-tampons. Having googled, yes. Yes, that’s a really good description of them. That is, in fact, exactly what they are. And I’m really
Bi-lateral rhino-rockets — still not an SF story Read More »
It sounds like a rocket part. It’s actually a thing that’s happening in my nose. Nose rocketry! Well… no. It’s like this. My husband noticed that I was getting out of breath when we were walking. My heart rate wasn’t elevated, but I was breathing through my mouth. The right side of my nose just
Turbinate hypertrophy and other woes Read More »
Kids Need to Read is a great charity started by Nathan Fillion. Tonight, at Phoenix Comicon, I’m participating in a fundraiser for them. Other authors are raffling off ARCs and things like that. Me? I’ll write a story for you, on demand. Here’s how it works. You donate $40 to the charity, and then you
Tonight, at Authors with Drinks, I’ll type a story for you. For charity. Read More »
There are some things you need to understand about yourself and about how community works, before you approach a reader and truly, before you even start the project in which you plan to represent a marginalized community. It’s good, and important, to want to represent people who are outside your experience, but it’s hard work.
Debut Author lessons: Sensitivity readers and why I pulled a project. Read More »
So, last year, the Writing Excuses gang put together this writing workshop and we held it on a cruise ship. Why? Because it turns out that when we were pricing venues this was the best deal. No, seriously. We’d been doing them at my parents’ house and people were staying at a Best Western a
Want to take a writing workshop? In the Caribbean? With me? Read More »
I’m judging the FutureScapes Writing contest, which has a goal that I’m really excited about. It’s the idea that art can change the world, and so it invites submissions for stories with the goal of changing the future. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” -Oscar Wilde Looking at
Submission opportunity: FutureScapes Writing Contest Read More »
I’d like your opinion. I do this thing, sometimes, where I take a typewriter and write one page flash fiction on demand. At the opening of Volumes BookCafe, I wrote five during the course of the evening. They’re fun, light, and take me about fifteen minutes. That’s a photo of one of them. (I’ll post
Typewritten stories for fundraisers. A pricing conundrum. Read More »
So, I know the answer to this, but my husband, who is doing our taxes*, would like a second opinion. As a writer, the books that I buy are a business expense because they are necessary for staying current with my field. As an audiobook narrator, the audiobooks I listen to are a business expense
So, what’s deductible as an author? Read More »
I tend to think of April Fool’s Day as Alternate Reality Day. A well-constructed April Fool’s joke is one, which creates, for a moment, a really cool world to live in. But, there are rules. So, I thought I would post my rules for what makes a good prank and then walk you through my most recent
The Anatomy of an April Fool’s Prank Read More »
So if it were April 1 and a friend “noticed” that there was erotic Glamourist Histories fanfic on Amazon. And said friend had a history of writing fast and writing fan-fic, would you give them the side eye? Yes. Or if another friend has apparently been working on a secret project. So tell me the
Since people are asking about the Glamourist Histories erotic fanfic Read More »
Some of you noticed that I was doing some Kermit flailing on Twitter a while back. That’s usually a good sign of secret good news. And while I did get an invitation to audition for a speaking role on Sesame Street. I didn’t get the part, so that’s not what the flailing was about. The flailing
Hypothetically, I might be in Australia for two months. Read More »