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November 7, 2022
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March 28, 2022
A finished novel, StokerCon, Space & Time Magazine updates, and more! Blog/Newsletter - March 2022
Things have been fantastic lately!
Ali and I have been working on installing an antique chandelier—which I’m sure to post about on Instagram after it’s hung today (hopefully). This was supposed to take a single evening—but as any homeowner knows (especially if you live in an older home) you’re likely to at least double your predicted project time and take two or three unexpected visits to the hardware store.
...January 7, 2022
Five 2021 Lessons & Five 2022 Plans
Happy New Year! We’re almost a week into 2022, so I thought I’d kick off the first blog of the new year with a list of five things I learned in 2021 – and the changes those lessons have inspired for 2022. I hope this list inspires you to reflect and make great goals for this year if you haven’t already. I would call these resolutions, but we all know as soon as they’re called that, you can kiss your chances of obtaining them goodbye! 😂 So, without further ado, here are five things I learned as a...
November 1, 2021
Slow Times for the Spooky Holiday
It’s a short newsletter/blog this time around because there just aren’t many updates – a lot of the same stuff is simply chugging along! If you’re reading this in the newsletter, you’ll see a section about a beta-reading opportunity in December for my novel The Dark Well. If you’d like those details and/or the pictures and extra bits that come with the newsletter, you can sign up any time within the week and I’ll make sure you get a copy in your inbox!
A Slow HalloweenI hope you and yours had a h...
October 13, 2021
Great Scott! There's Bookkeeping Now!
You thought you’d escaped it. Maybe it missed you. Maybe you missed it. Tuesday came and went. Yet the growls of a hungry newsletter can be heard in the darkest corners. Long strings of spittle hang from the ceiling as a warning its content might spring forth from a mouth within a mouth – diving into your ears to tell you: what’s up.
It’s the second week of my favorite month of the year! I hope you’re all finding time to enjoy all the fall things that bring you joy. Typically, we GO HARD with Hal...
October 5, 2021
Making the News & Going to the Zoo
I’m known for stirring things up a bit when I see it’s needed. Lately, I saw three board members of my local public library system (my former employer) espousing pro-censorship views on a library social media post celebrating Banned Books Week. So… I took the opportunity to call them out, which resulted in a chat with my local NPR affiliate. I also started a petition to remove those board members. So far, the endeavor is going very well. You can check all that out with the links ...
September 28, 2021
It's baaaaaack -- The Blog!
The blog opens its eyes and draws crisp air into its lungs for the first time in… *checks notes* holy shit! It’s been more than a year?! Damn. I must have hit the poor guy over the head harder than I thought. *Checks the blog’s eyes with a penlight* Ope! Yeah, that’s a concussion. Let’s see here. The last post was called… *scrolls around* “2020 Can Go To Hell” – oh… well that was positive. Yikes. Sorry to leave you all on such a low note for so long. I can assure you of several things from here ...
