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Disintegrate – coming May 2013 from Evernight Teen

I can finally announce the fabulous news I’ve been sitting on for more than a week: I’ve signed a contract with Evernight Teen to publish my young adult novel, Disintegrate! It will be coming out in May 2013 in both print and e-book format. Disintegrate, releasing May 2013! Young Adult, Paranormal, Suspense Word Count: 51,000 [...]

Love poem for Valentine’s Day – Rumba-lady’s wrap

Rumba — lady’s wrap I’m a fox and he has his hands on me. I step back, wild. He moves closer, twists somehow and I’m curled in his arm, walking forward. I have no idea how I got here. She says, now turn her again and he unwraps me like a candied chocolate. An exotic pear, [...]

Poet in Residence at Touch: The Journal of Healing

  For the past year, I have had the privilege of writing for Touch: The Journal of Healing as its Poet in Residence. I wrote a series of three essays focusing on the journals concept of Evolution into Insight: Experience. Intent. Craft. It has been my pleasure to work with the editors, O.P.W. Fredericks and [...]

How to break everything electronic

For the first time in my life, I managed to make enough money writing to buy myself a new computer (mostly because I didn’t have to buy food with the money). I didn’t need a new computer. I have a perfectly awesome desktop computer which has served me well (an iMac): namely, it enabled my [...]

Poem Spark Jan 14, 2012: website of the day poems

Greetings and salutations! The internet is a fantastic resource for those of us surfing around in the arts. It hold vast amounts of information, makes research easier, and connects us with readers and other artists. One of my favorite ways of building a poem comes from perusing the Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive, or [...]

Poem Spark Dec 31, 2012: Poems for the New Year

Greetings and salutations! It’s been four years and six months since I wrote my last poem spark. It seemed fitting to begin again with poems for the new year, since this is New Year’s Eve. Like many of you, I will be staying up late to celebrate the rise of January 1, 2013. This time [...]

Poem Sparks — Master List

I thought I’d try and gather all the poem sparks I could salvage from the Poets.org’s now defunct discussion forum. I wrote these from 2006-2008. If I’m feeling inspired, I may revive this feature, possibly doing some random poem sparks on this website from time to time. Is anyone interested in that? If so, please [...]

Saturn’s moon Dione in slight color

_________________________________ Saturn’s moon Dione in slight color Dione hangs over Saturn, craters leading. Isn’t the face always the most battered part of the body? This is what happens when two things are locked together: the dark forever in front of us, an infinity of nothing we can predict. This morning you said you were sad, [...]

Copywriting – the forgotten art

  My best friend and honorary sister, Dawn Barnes, has won an award for her copywriting from GDUSA (American Graphic Design Awards 2012). If you click on the photo above, then click thru to numbers 15 and 16, you’ll see the ads for which she wrote the copy. I can’t even begin to tell you [...]

‘Tis the Season

Some of you may know that I sometimes write completely ridiculous holiday poems. Here they are—this year’s gem and a few earlier attempts. Enjoy! __________________________________ ‘Tis the Season The malls are insane but you have to go shopping for ribbon and candy to fill the last stocking. You can’t stop to cry, ’tis the season [...]