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January 2, 2017
2016 in Review; 2017 in Preview
Happy New Year! Thanks for reading along as I tackle the crazy world of the written word. It’s been a great and happy year and a dark and stormy year. I had some great wins. I had some tough losses. But weall did, and I think it’s important to take a minute to reflect and … Continue reading 2016 in Review; 2017 inPreview 
December 1, 2016
November Writing Round-Up
Um, wait. It’s December 1? Fifteenth rejection! Such is the business. Also got a rejection for a grant to which I applied, but it included some wonderful positive feedback. Five submissions, three still active. No new short stories. I promised myself I wouldn’t start anything new until after the novel revisions and I stuck with … Continue reading November Writing Round-Up 
October 31, 2016
October Writing Round-Up
I don’t know if you like reading these posts, but it turns out that I like writing them, so you’re going to keep getting them. So what have I been up to in the last month? Tenth rejection! *and the crowd goes wild* Yes, I submitted stories often enough in the last month that I … Continue reading October Writing Round-Up 
September 30, 2016
September Writing Round-up
It’s been quite a month! I’m not even sure where it went, but I can say that I got some good work done. Fifth rejection! If rejected short stories tell you anything good about a writer, they are, at the very least, proof that the writer is submitting. Can’t publish if you don’t submit; can’t … Continue reading September Writing Round-up 
September 1, 2016
I'm a Goodreads Author? I'm a Goodreads Author!
After years of following my favorite people on this site, getting a Goodreads Author profile is just about as cool as having a story in a forthcoming anthology. Just sayin'.
To many good things to come! Now, I'm off to write...
To many good things to come! Now, I'm off to write...
August 31, 2016
August Writing Round-Up
In the first of what I hope will be a series, here's a look at my writing life in the last month and resources I've found particularly helpful.
August 18, 2016
Story Sale: “Taking Care of Business”
"Taking Care of Business" (née "Twice Nightly") will appear in the forthcoming steampunk anthology Swords & Steam Short Stories (Sept 2016), part of Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Fantasy series. 
May 12, 2016
Review: LAB GIRL by Hope Jahren
5/5 stars. Jahren harmonizes the story of her life as a geobotanist with the story of trees. Undaunted by the solitary nature of lab work, she discovers that a host of other challenges stand in her way, from a nationwide funding drought to deeply entrenched sexism to her own, more personal battles. Despite it all, she and her unlikely partner-in-science, Bill tackle success, failure, birth, death, resentment, forgiveness, family, and self.
May 4, 2016
What I Can’t Do, What I Can Do
It’s official: I won’t be physically hiking for Wilderness Heals this year. This is a really, really hard thing for me to handle. If you’ve talked to me at all in the past six years, you know how important the hike and the hikers and the Elizabeth Stone House have been to me. In 2010, … Continue reading What I Can’t Do, What I CanDo 
April 27, 2016
Review: IN THE COMPANY OF THE DEAD by Ciara Ballintyne
4/5 Stars The convoluted politics of men and gods traps a lone-wolf priestess of death and an exiled nobleman in a remote castle during a siege. Alliances are forged and broken in this springboard to an intriguing series.
