Jamie Ferguson's Blog, page 6
July 23, 2018
Making a point
My tomatillo plants are finally making tomatillos! Hooray! This was expected, of course, but I’m still excited every year when plants in my garden start doing whatever it is they’re supposed to do. It’s also kind of crazy to have a tomatillo plant that’s taller than me!
Tomatillos!!!
Last week was really crazy. Both my 3rd cousin, Joyce, and my husband’s brother+family were in town, I had to finish a new story, create a cover, and publish an ebook for a new anthology I’m participating in (mor...
July 18, 2018
So many things!
Yesterday I got to meet my cousin Joyce in person for the first time ever!!! Joyce and I are 3rd cousins once removed, and have been emailing for the past few years, but we’d never actually met. We do genealogy research with a few other relatives, and spent most of our three or so hours together talking about all of that. It was super fun!
Aside from that, between my day job & story deadlines & family things I’ve been so busy that I can barely remember what day it is. 
July 9, 2018
Future Jamie is full of surprises
I recently realized that I’ve had twenty-one stories published in the past two years.
July 3, 2018
I’ve been interviewed!!!
Mark Leslie Lefebvre interviewed me for episode 27 of the Stark Reflections podcast!!!
This was my first ever podcast interview, and it was really fun! Mark’s podcast is one of my top three favorites, and while I haven’t yet worked up the nerve to listen to my own interview, it’s coming up in my feed and I’ll hear it in the next few days.
In the interview, I officially committed to finally publishing the non-fiction book about creating story bundles and anthologies that I’ve been saying I’d...
June 25, 2018
Tree excitement
There’s been a lot of tree-related excitement at our house this week. It seems awfully coincidental that I’ve been working on a story about a dryad…
June 18, 2018
It’s never too wet to play
After a very hot week, we’ve now had two days of rain. Rosie doesn’t like to go out into the backyard when the grass is wet – she seems to not like getting her feet wet, because she’ll shake her feet off as she walks through the grass.
June 11, 2018
Totally doable
It’s great to be back in Colorado after a week in New York City. The trip was a week-long get-together with about 30 people from work, most of whom I’d never met before. The other people turned out to be great, and the whole event was structured in a way that allowed us to interact and get to know each other – we even spent one afternoon at a baseball game (Mets vs. Orioles).
The Washington Square Arch in Greenwich Village.
I had not only never been to New York before, it also didn’t occur to...June 5, 2018
The big apple
Me, on the 14th floor at work – southern Manhattan is behind me
I’m in New York City for the first time ever!!! I’m here on a week-long trip for my day job, but my husband (aka Mike) and I flew out a few days early and spent an evening hanging out with some friends who live in Boston. I’ve done tons and tons of walking, and fortunately remembered to switch from sandals to sneakers before I got blisters, so I can still walk.
May 28, 2018
Resistance is futile
My latest short story is currently a little over 5,600 words long, and will likely end up at 7,500-9,000 words long when it’s finished. Whenever that is.
May 21, 2018
What’s up with the trolls?
To my great surprise, I am working on my second story that contains trolls. I have nothing against trolls, I just didn’t plan on writing about any – but here they are nonetheless.
My first troll story came about thanks to an assignment in the week-long fantasy workshop I went to in Oregon last month. We were given a list of potential characters which included trolls, and part of the assignment was to set our story in the town we live in. I live in Boulder, Colorado, and kept being drawn to t...
