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Because I’m Happy

There’s an article going around social media regarding a study that found the top 10 songs guaranteed to make someone happy. The study concluded those songs were the following:

Queen, “Don’t Stop Me Now”ABBA, “Dancing Queen”Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations”Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”Survivor, “Eye of the Tiger”The Monkees, “I’m a Believer”Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”Bon Jovi, “Livin’ on a Prayer”Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive”Katrina & the Waves, “Walking on Sunshine”

While I l...

Write-A-Thon

It’s time for the Clarion West Write-A-Thon!

Besides kicking my writing ass into shape word count wise, the Write-A-Thon event is a great opportunity to raise funds for Clarion West, a great writing workshop here on the west coast. Places like Clarion West, Cascade Writers, Taos Toolbox, Viable Paradise, etc. go a long way in helping fledgeling writers learn their craft. They provide networking opportunities and chances to pitch ideas.

Because I truly believe that writing workshops help writers ...

North Carolina Time!

Heya folks!

If you’re in the Ashville, NC area, the amazing bookstore co-op Firestorm will have copies of Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths on release date, 8/6/24!

If you show your local bookstore some love and snag a copy, I’ll happily send you a signed bookplate for it.

Here’s a nice pre-order link for it: https://firestorm.coop/products/21617-voices-carry.html

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BookPeople Austin

Heya folks!

If you’re in the Austin, TX area, BookPeople will have copies of Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths on release date, 8/6/24!

If you show your local bookstore some love and snag a copy, I’ll happily send you a signed bookplate for it.

Here’s a nice pre-order link for it: https://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781947712225

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The Sky is Bright

Last week, our pale blue dot was hit by one hell of a solar storm the size of which we haven’t seen in something like two hundred years. Due to this, people all over the world had the rare opportunity to see the Aurora Borealis, something that’s usually only visible in certain northern areas of the world.

I’ve always wanted to see them. So much so that I’m a member of the Aurora Borealis Washington State group over on Facebook and I follow several NOAA groups and weather chasers to keep up on si...

Fantasy, Lore, & More!

I was a guest last night on Melinda Kucsera’s Fantasy, Lore, & More, where I talk at length about the Boahim Trilogy (with some discussion of the upcoming Amaskan’s Honor) and my upcoming memoir, Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths. 

You can listen to it streaming on Spotify, or you can see the video of it on YouTube. Both are available below. Be aware that I while the stream doesn’t stutter, I was having Internet trouble last night so my side of the video wasn’t the best. M...

Pre-Orders are a go!

For all that I’m a writer, there aren’t words to express how important my new book (Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths) is to me. It’s so topical right now.

Pre-Orders are up bookstores everywhere (release 8/6/24). Join me on my trek through transitioning & self-discovery in a world built on silence.

If you don’t want to hunt for it in the sea of books, you can see a list of pre-order places here:

Voices Carry

 

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Impossible Astronauts

Happy Impossible Astronaut Day!

If you see them, take note. The Silence is everywhere.

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The Fall Continues…

I truly thought that after having their asses handed to them with regards to internal bigotry…I mean possibly protecting missing stairs…no, I mean kicking all the writers in their youth program to the curb…ah, hell, I figured the folks running National Novel Writing Month would have learned something from all their copious mistakes, but it appears not.

Many writers participating in NaNoWriMo left in droves after the fiasco I last wrote about, though I know some people were hopeful that the board...

A Big, Damn Update!

I haven’t updated folks about some of the chaos in my world in a bit, so I’m taking a moment to do so since yesterday was a very bad, no-good, fuck-it-all kind-of day. I’m all up in my feels and need to get some of this out there. It’ll be long, so bear with me.

There’s a ton of chaos in the background that I’ve been keeping offline, but I’ve reached the point that I need to address it as I know it’s impacting my relationships with friends and readers alike. For those who haven’t seen the social...