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May 12, 2023
Nothing Without Us Too is a Prix Aurora Award Nominee!
I’m telling you, it was so hard to keep this information to myself. Both Talia and I felt our brains were going to explode. We were completely stunned to discover that the second anthology we co-edited, Nothing Without Us Too, received a nomination for the 2023 Prix Aurora Award in the Best Related Work category. …
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May 8, 2023
Mini-NonFic Monday: Processing Noise, Seeking Stillness
Genre: Nonfiction In the stillness there is contentment. Less processing of sound and more flow of thought. I’m more at peace here, devoid of noise. Although I have no idea what totally quiet means. Even when voices aren’t present, there’s the hum of the fridge, the lamp timer softly ticks, and the fan of our …
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May 1, 2023
Okay, I didn’t reach my CampNaNoWriMo goal, but I’m SO PROUD!
I’m just sitting here stunned. In April, I hurled myself into Camp NaNoWriMo with not much heads-up. I had a couple of paragraphs and an illustration for something called Hot Wings and Sauciness. Was this a good idea? Just diving in? Especially since I had been so tied up with health issues and other stressors …
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Mini-NonFic Monday: Not A Horrible Day
CN: Implied suicidal ideation Genre: Nonfiction This isn’t a horrible day. There have been many, but not today. I don’t feel horrible, things don’t appear horrible, and the absence of horriblenesses gives me hope. Hope has been something that I’ve constantly lived for. But hope slipped away from me last year. And I almost slipped …
April 7, 2023
It’s Autism Awareness/Acceptance/Celebration Month, and I’m writing an autistic protagonist in my new WIP!
Let me begin by admitting that I totally forgot it was that month. I say it this way, a bit jaded, because April is often a battleground on Twitter between Autism Mom Warriors and/or autism organizations and/or autism “professionals” trying to speak over adults who are autistic. Sometimes it’s even autistic adults who have formal …
April 3, 2023
Mini-novel Monday: I’m off Camping! Well, sort of.
So far, 2023 has been a whirlwind of drama from all dimensions. I’ve been on antibiotics for five out of twelve weeks (hopefully, it’s all over now), I yeeted Twitter into the stratosphere, I set even more boundaries on social media, I did several virtual panels and a reading, and I’ve been working on the …
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March 20, 2023
Mini-excerpt Monday: Episode 5 of Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space—read by me at Ephemera!
On March 15, I had the great honour of being one of the guest authors at the award-nominated and wonderful ephemera reading series. I was sick as heck (but hey, when am I not) and still had a blast! I am the first author to read, but I strongly encourage you to watch the entire …
March 17, 2023
Why I am a #Qwitter
No, that’s not a typo. I meant to spell quitter with a W instead of a U. It’s my way of saying I finally quit Twitter. In 2011, I had joined that social media platform and yeah, there was the odd troll here and there, but I’d just block them and continue to enjoy the …
March 15, 2023
#CaitTacklesTBRPile: Segovia Stories, by Bernadette Gabay Dyer
Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, but I had already told the author that I really wanted to review it! Segovia Stories is a collection of short fiction whose style spans from slice-of-life tellings to speculative fiction. These tales are also woven with many cultural nuances and characters …
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March 10, 2023
Voting is open to nominate works in the Prix Aurora Awards—and I have two works eligible this year!
The Prix Aurora Awards are given to works and orgs under the speculative fiction umbrella by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). They have a three-step process for issuing the award: As of this post, we’re in Step 2. So, for example, my poem, Adrift, appears in the Best Poem category, and the …
