Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
I’m going to borrow a page from and post an idea I had that I don’t have time to follow through on, at least not for a very long time. I would post it under a creative commons license, but since you can’t really copyright an idea anyway, that seems a bit redundant, so just […]
Read More »I’m on vacation the rest of this week, so there won’t be any updates here, unless something writing-related happens that is so amazing or tragic that I must wade through dial-up molasses to post it, which is pretty doubtful. Originally, we were supposed to go camping this week, and then get back in time for […]
Read More »Note: I pounded out the following last night after a glass and a half of wine and in the middle of a writing frenzy, all while being distractingly nosed by my cat. I tried to edit it for coherency. This interview with Ira Glass, of NPR’s This American Life, contains some pretty excellent advice about […]
Read More »Not too long ago, I had a moment of self-discovery. It wasn’t a life-changing epiphany so much as a moment of, “Oh! Well, of course!” And that, my friends, was the realization that I’m really just not that interested in writing for money. Well, maybe I should rephrase that. Of course it would be nice […]
Read More »I once knew this girl. She wasn’t like the rest of us. She had a special power, one that made her the envy of every woman who ever knew her. You know how some women joke about how they just look at a piece of cake and gain two pounds? Well, for Linda it was […]
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