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"Queen's Aerie" launched!

in the “better late than never” PSA category…For those who might actually be following me because of my fiction writing, here’s some news! I am publishing my novel The Queen’s Aerie serially on House of York and Wattpad. On HoY, you need to sign up...

Correct vs. Perfect

I am not a perfectionist. That is true, despite appearances! I learned a long time ago, back when I was reporter for a regional news magazine, that “perfection never gets printed.” We had deadlines and even if a story wasn’t perfect, it still had to be typeset and...

Tragedy and the Making of Legends

What makes a popular story? I don’t mean a great one, although many are both, but rather a story where the setting, the characters, the events become legends? Actually, I think my question is: what makes a legendary story? I wonder about this a lot because that is the...

Instinctual

My M/M/F book Wolves of Harmony Heights was written back in 2015/2016, and has zilch to do with my recent (as of late 2019) dive into Chinese webnovels and dramas. But as this dive keeps getting deeper, I realized that in writing that book I was searching for novel...

The Future of Grieving Futures

Back in 2010 or so, I wrote a book I call Grieving Futures detailing the slow collapse of my family and my emergence from that as an adult orphan. It’s a painful book and in retrospect I’d write it very differently, if I were writing it today. But it is...

Updatery part elevenhundy

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog at all (I mean, who hasn’t, amirite?!?!?) then you’ve been keeping up with my “blog a day for a year” posts, right up until there were no more blogs-a-day. I stopped before I hit the 200 mark, so...