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March 30, 2015
Book Review: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
I have read four books��of Neil Gaiman’s to date:��Coraline, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, and now,��American Gods.��It is strange to say that I have read four of his books��because I don’t necessarily feel as though I’m the biggest fan of his work, or as though I have even […]
March 13, 2015
Blind Like Water: A Poem
Tonight, I will sleep in the garden Buried under rocks and sand A man will come with a rake every now and then To carve lines into my body And he will say “The flowers are sweet today.” At night when the lights are quiet The moon like a sea shell washed ashore by a […]
March 11, 2015
A Day For Dreaming
Horray! Today is BOOKBUB DAY! This means that my debut novel,��THE SOWING, is temporarily discounted to $0.99. DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU CAN BUY AN ENTIRE BOOK FOR NINETY-NINE CENTS! Does anyone else find this a little bit crazy? Crazy awesome, amirite?! After all, once upon a time, books were the possessions of the elite, […]
February 22, 2015
In Which I Attempt To Shoot Fashion Photography
One of my hobbies, for those of you who don’t know, is photography. Every now and then I get a chance to take advantage of this love and bum a dSLR camera from my sister to take photos. Recently, I decided I wanted to experiment with some fashion and portrait photography. As it was my […]
February 18, 2015
Renaissance
The sky is bright today The sky is bright today Pitter-patter, says the rain, beating on my thigh My hands are alive The water falls in myriad ways A fern swallows me The sky is bright today — This poem is meant to accompany this photo, which is a visual representation of an epiphany of […]
January 29, 2015
I Am Fire
Great granitic catacombs, hollowed out by flame rust inside my soul. Magma cracks through the crust of my earth, smoking. Metal, molten, seethes at my core; the history of my formation, tumultuous, written in every layer of my skin. Black ash spouts from my mouth, volcanic, I erupt, bursting, spitting, lashing, lava tongues and rocky […]
January 20, 2015
What To Drink With What You Read
So, fellow readers, you’ve just added twelve books to your Kindle queue and bought three used books at your local indie bookseller. If you’re anything like me, by this point you’re starting to experience chest constriction, loss of vision and muscle control, and a powerful desire to curl up under your bedsheets and never make […]
January 6, 2015
Writing As Devotional
“A professional writer is just an amateur who didn’t quit.” I quit writing this year. Not on purpose. It was definitely not on purpose. Unlike my friend J. Edward Paul, who gives up writing every other day and is only lured back to it by the fact that his stories are simply bursting out of […]
December 29, 2014
Book Review: Who Is Evelyn Dae by Sarah La Fleur
A few weeks back I won something in a random draw contest. It was the first time in my life I’ve ever won something at a raffle-style event, so that alone was special. It was made even more special because the thing that I won happened to be a paperback copy of��Who Is Evelyn Dae, […]
December 15, 2014
Four Ways To Improve Your Dialogue and Write Better Characters
Writing dialogue, is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult��aspects of writing. Description? I’m all over that. I’ll describe shit��to you all day long. Character development? Challenging, but can come naturally as the plot moves along. Plot? Easy. If you ever took an English class in high school you know how to write a […]
