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Why My Second Book Will Have More Editors

This week I was so excited to send The Stealth Lovers to my publisher, Renaissance. The manuscript still has to go through the Acquisitions Committee, so I have about three months to wait before I know if they’ll publish it. (Please, please pick me! Pick me!) The Stealth Lovers is the origin story of Commander Xaxall…

Back from staycay!

I had a lovely two weeks off, relaxing with the husband unit during our stay-cation. So much dessert, so much retail therapy. Good times. But now STUFF is about to happen. Because of my super-amazing beta readers from heaven, I received all the comments, and I’m ready to roll with preparing the submission draft of The…

I suck at Mystery. Dam it.

Okay, it’s a billionty degrees, and I’m holed up on staycation, but I’m dedicated to completing all twelve of author ‘Nathan Bourgoine’s 2018 Flash Fiction monthly challenges. The location is in or on a dam, and the object is a typewriter. I almost died when I saw the genre: Mystery. Yipes. That’s the hardest for…

Getting Stuck After a Trigger

Originally posted on Spoonie Authors Network:
Hey, ho, it’s your Spoonie Authors Network editor! I’ve not posted for a wee while but wanted to share something today. While I’m basically an upbeat and maybe frighteningly friendly person, I am also a human who manages mental illness. I am blessed to be surrounded by caring friends…

Forsooth!

It’s June and once again I’m partaking in ‘Nathan Burgoine’s super-fun 2018 flash fiction challenge! This month we had to write a fantasy story, set in a junkyard/scrapyard, featuring hot chocolate. And I’m sick as a dog this week. I’m using that excuse for bending the rules, genre-wise. *cough* But ‘Nathan said we’re supposed to…

I reckon I beta write a post about The Stealth Lovers!

Wow, has it been three years since I was at this place? In late Spring 2015, I sent out a beta-reader draft of Life in the ’Cosm. Was I ever frightened! Aw, you never forget your first time, eh? It’s so different now. Yesterday I submitted the beta-reader draft of its prequel, The Stealth Lovers, to my…

The Ale-ing Brothers

Yay, it’s flash fiction time, as hosted by the fantabulous author, ’Nathan Burgoine. This month in the year-long challenge we had to write in the genre of sci-fi, in the clouds, and with a dog collar as our object. I thought a bit outside the box here, and the timing of the writing prompt coincided with…

Anthology Kickstarter: We Shall Be Monsters (Or, as I call it: The Frankenthology)

So I’m pretty stoked. Last December I submitted a short story called The Hilltop Gathering to the We Shall Be Monsters anthology call-for-submissions. What really appealed to me about this project was how authors were invited to write stories that explored disability. As a disabled person, this simply delighted me. For the first time since I…

WONDERful

Originally posted on Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy:
Wonderful A review of Cait Gordon’s A Night at The Rabbit Hole in Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland edited by Colleen Anderson (Exile, 2018) By Derek Newman-Stille Alice in Wonderland is a story that plays with identity, disrupting the power that normativity has on our…

New Twitter Chat Group: #writersRX

Originally posted on Spoonie Authors Network:
by February Grace Editor’s note: I met February Grace through Twitter and she’s just lovely. This month she created a new Twitter chat group called #writersRX. They meet every Monday at 7:00 p.m. (EDT) and it’s specifically for writers who manage disabilities and/or chronic conditions. I attended it last…