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I'm a writer of LGBTQ+ young adult and speculative fiction. In my newsletter I talk about my work, the creative process, and what I'm reading and enjoying.
Adventures in Querying The time in between publications is like watching a duck on the water. He just looks like he’s floating there, but under the surface, his legs are paddling like a motherf***er. I am that duck. Quack. But yeah, the last thing I got published was a short story in Uncharted magazine last year. Go check out “Grand Canyon,” inspired by a story my college friend Matt wrote about the Grand Canyon disappearing from the Arizona desert. I spent like thirty years wondering, “Where...
Chasing Joy My stuff Recently, it dawned on me that several of my short stories that have been published are now also out of print—either due to magazines folding or anthologies fading into obscurity along with their publishers. So I figured I might as well dust them off and give them a new lease on life. All of which is to say I have the original files and some ebook-formatting software that I kind of know how to use. I’m making these available for free/pay what you want over at ko-fi.com....
First things first.... If you’re like me—well, if you’re like me, I am terribly sorry, but that’s another thing entirely. Anyway, the relentless drumbeat of awful news has been getting to me lately. The other day my husband (I am still getting used to saying that, and I don’t think I will ever get tired of it) gave me a hug while I was in the kitchen making dinner, and he asked me what was wrong. “Everything,” I said. It feels like that a lot. For me, the antidote to despair is action, even a...