Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
We’ll be having a quiet, homemade Christmas at home, just the two of us and our pets and more food than two people should eat, relaxing in our jammies and watching Christmas movies (…what do you mean, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard aren’t Christmas movies?). In the meantime, I invite you to listen to this special […]
Read More »My husband has had what you might call a “state-crush” on New Mexico for a while now. He has relatives there, and some fond memories of visiting them when he was growing up, and of how beautiful it is around the mountains there. He’s also a fan of Hatch peppers, and it certainly doesn’t hurt […]
Read More »I originally posted this review in March of 2012. We’ve recently pulled this book out and started going through it again, mainly because it has a lot of good advice for staying warm in the event that all of these winter storms knock out our power. I stand by my original review — the info […]
Read More »The temperature outside is in the 40s as I write this, with afternoon highs expected to reach the 50s, but I’m preoccupied with thinking up ways to stay warm. Why? Because we’re under a winter storm warning, with temperatures expected to plummet overnight, and a “wintery mix” arriving in the morning. In Oklahoma, “wintery mix” […]
Read More »Welcome to one of my most popular posts, a holdover from my brief attempt at being a craft blogger. I know you’re here to learn how to make lip balm, but if you’re a fan of quirky paranormal romance, contemporary fantasy or horror fiction, have a look around! You can check out my books, learn […]
Read More »Because you can lose everything in under a minute. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrgSVoJi1U]
Read More »I’m not gonna lie: this has not been an easy year. We’ve experienced a lot of loss — extended family loss, pet loss, employment and income loss — and not a lot of gain to make up for it. All of that grief and stress piled on like that can make it really difficult to […]
Read More »Welcome new readers and former readers of both Preppergirl.com and Daydream Believer! This is a merger of those two blogs, the first of which focused on disaster preparedness and the second of which was basically a diary of my attempts to conquer various health issues via natural and homeopathic means and, eventually, to become a […]
Read More »A few things… Nanowrimo’s not happening for me. There’s just too much on my plate right now for me to be able to make it a priority. Relatedly, I think I need to take a semi-hiatus from this blog until things settle down and I figure out exactly what I want to be doing with […]
Read More »I managed to accomplished two (TWO!) writing/publishing-related things last weekend: I broke through my block and figured out the main plot arc of the next book in the Damned series (and also what book three is about, and that it’s up to four books now instead of being a trilogy); and I came up with a […]
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