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Tea Time!

Back on November 18th, I was a guest on Miss Liz’s Tea Time where we talked about Technology, Education, and the Arts. More specifically, we talked about diversity, growing up different, disability, and life in general. You can watch the show on YouTube (see below) or listen to it on any number of podcasting sites.

Other places to watch/listen:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2AFdmCUZipUUa0GNr42DYK

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misslizsteatimes

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Amaskan’s Honor Pre-Order

I’ve got something special for you all!

From now until 11/30/24, you can PRE-ORDER your autographed paperback of Amaskan’s Honor direct from me and it will ship to you ONE MONTH before the publication date this spring (2025). You’ll be able to read it before anyone else!

So how do you pre-order it?

All you have to do is click this button! You’ll go to a special page in my store where you will enter your information & pay for the book. The price includes shipping. Come spring, your book will be m...

Threadless

I sell prints and originals of my art over at www.theartofravenoak.com but more recently, I’ve created a Threadless shop for selling my art on a variety of things like t-shirts, pillows, shower curtains, etc. You name it, it’s probably there.

You can check out my store and support me at:

https://ravenoak.threadless.com/

I personally like Threadless for the variety of goods they have and the variety of shirt styles they have as well. Still working on adding my art somewhere with better plus-size ...

GeekGirlCon Wrap-Up

Elise and I almost didn’t attend GeekGirlCon this year. Not because of COVID concerns because GGC is a masked convention, but because of the election. Worries about safety and the future are real. I’m glad we went because it was so needed.

Me and Elise at our booth just after set up on Friday. We are so very tired in this photo!

I needed to be amongst my people–not just geeky folks but the queer community. Being around people who understood our concerns and worry about the future, people who wou...

Punctuation Matters

For National Punctuation Day… an oldie but a goodie.

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Family is a Complicated Word

Today in the United States, it is National Family Day. Families are definitely a theme in my works, everything from found and chosen families to blood relatives and all the pros and cons that come with each type of relationship.

Because of my background as a teacher (and teaching a wide variety of families) as well as my childhood experiences, family is a complicated word. It carries a lot of weight and as such, I find myself constantly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a family. Var...

Flights of Foundry Con

Flights of Foundry is a free, online creative convention hosted this year from Friday, September 27 through Sunday, September 29, completely online and COVID-free!

If you want to come, you can register for FREE at https://flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

My Flights of Foundry Schedule:

FRIDAY 9/27
3 PM PT – Problematic Faves Panel w/ Cat Rambo, R. K. Duncan, Jennifer Spirko, & Raven Oak (in Swooperton)
4 PM PT – Cozy Game Squeefest w/ Shade Oyemakinwa, V. M. Ayala, & Raven Oak (in Bartholome...

Strong Women Strange Worlds

I will be a guest over on the Strong Women – Strange Worlds show on Thursday, 9/19 @ 7 PM EDT along with fellow authors J. L. Delavega, Marisa Wolf, Catherine LaCroix, K. A. Hough, & Marcie Rendon. Come join us for some quick reads & fun.

Because this is on Zoom, preregistration is required to attend. The event is FREE and you can register over at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/first-friday-third-thursday-quick-read-tickets-958075358187?aff=oddtdtcreator

Note: While I am nonbinary, Strong Women S...

Hate is a Choice

Truth is… I have ZERO tolerance for using slurs in nonfiction in order to demonstrate something occurred in the past.  As someone who has written a memoir, I’m aware that some words and actions that may have been acceptable back when aren’t now, and as a writer, how I approach that is a CHOICE. In Voices Carry , I do write about a white friend I had as a child whose mother married a man of color. She was not biracial, but her siblings were. Being the early 80’s in Northern Florida, t...

Interdimensions

I’m not sure how but in all the chaos that was the release of Voices Carry, I managed to miss posting on here about a short story publication!

My short story, “Eye of the Beholder,” which I co-wrote with author Jennifer Brozek, was picked up for publication in the 2024 Gen Con Writers’ Symposium anthology called Interdimensions.

They released a special edition of it at Gen Con this month, but you can get the trade paperback (or eBook) via your bookstore of choice. (Retail links can be found here...