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August 25, 2016
Going Places: Speculative Noir Flash for #thewordcountpodcast
I’m fairly certain four months of radio silence is a new record for me. It’s been a good summer, though. We took our annual pilgrimage to Hampton Beach in July, where I read like a fiend (more on that in the next few posts!) and laid around on the beach a lot. I’ve been writing […]
April 25, 2016
Fresh Scandal for You
For those who don’t podcast, my recent bit of flash for R.B. Wood’s Wordcount Podcast (you can still listen here!): Fresh Scandal “Why, Carolina Pritchard, those are the prettiest earrings I ever saw!” Caro rarely found herself at the Piggly Wiggly before nine, but she’d been up since dawn. Cat vomit on her ex-husband’s pillow […]
April 23, 2016
Frosted Cowboy: A Review
It’s spring break here in Massachusetts, and the weather is finally starting to feel like green things and blue skies. Time for some fun chick lit! Charlene Ross’s Frosted Cowboy is a Hollywood rom-com waiting to happen. Thirty-two year-old heroine Laney Delaney is engaging and relatable, her antics and adventures just enough over the top, […]
April 18, 2016
Fresh Scandal for the Word Count
Episode 56, friends, and with it a little one-off soap opera flash from me. Come on, give it a listen! Direct iTunes
April 13, 2016
It’s My Birthday and I’m Giving Away Damselfly Inn to Celebrate!
According to my mother-in-law, I cease to age today. Pretty good deal, I guess. Honestly,I’m not too fussed about staring down 40, (except for maybe those pesky wrinkles around my eyes and smile— turns out I’m a little vain about those). Truthfully, a great many of my friends, the women in my family, and my […]
April 11, 2016
The Closest I Could Get to Candy and Puppies with Author Julie C. Gardner
It’s difficultfor me to articulate my feelings about Julie C. Gardner’s debut novel, Letters for Scarlet. Not because I didn’t fly through my advance copy, thinking I’d solved the mystery twice, thinking I had the end figured out, only to be surprisedwith each turn of the chapters. Not because I wasn’t drawn to her complex, […]
March 19, 2016
Fightball: Dying of Suck, Reviewed
Some five-ish years ago, almost six now, when I was new to writing online (as opposed to just journaling my thought-vomit), I wandered, much like Gretel, into a witch’s dooryard. This witch lured you with laughter and wit so dry it crackled, she fed you beautiful imagery, and then cooked you with brilliant, lovely snark […]
February 25, 2016
The Naming of Things
This isn’t about cats, but I do think Eliot was on to something, here. The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; ~The Naming of Cats, T.S. Eliot This is about our goofy family tendencies to name things. The dog’s two favorite plushies, for instance, are called […]
February 5, 2016
Connect.
So, I wrote this up right after Alan Rickman passed away, but — relevant to the post itself — I didn’t publish it, because it felt weird. Related: it’s messy in my head sometimes. SB Sarah at Smart Bitches Trashy Books described it as a “weird” sadness, and it is. I keep tearing up because […]
February 4, 2016
Arthur Weasley Would Be Delighted
Felix and I are, for the third go ’round, reading the Harry Potter books, but now that he is eight, he wants to finish the story. (Prior to this, we stopped at the end of Goblet of Fire, because I felt the story was above his Kindergarten and younger interest. Let’s be honest, all the […]
