FOUR PAGES ARE FINISHED! Ish. Poor Monsterpede. For awhile I locked it in the Harry Potter cupboard with my paints, but it’s now out on the table again. The above image is a watercolor sky with touches of marker on the edges, especially in the red by the water. All the mountains, water, and city [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
OOPS! I already announced this on Twitter, but I forgot to blog about it: my story, “Sinking Among Lilies,” is free online in Issue #92 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A mercenary/bookseller arrives in a small coastal village that’s being threatened by “anathema,” but the locals are mysteriously uninterested in her aid… (continue reading in a [...]
I started a new project called “Monsterpede.” I plan to self-publish it, so I’m free to bore you with openly document the process here. This first post in the series I make about “Monsterpede” is going to be about self-publishing, which I declare, right now, is one of the best things about living in the [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fun fact! At least 37.5% of my critique group is this immature. (This is the very end of our brainstorming session. My notes are scribbled under the busy lizards.) Thanks again, Spencer and Sam, for helping me figure out an important convergence between theme and plot. <3 Oh, and for letting me get this photo [...]
When I first started taking my writing to a critique group, I wanted to learn so badly that I wasn’t usually upset by criticism. I hadn’t expected how hard it would be to use the feedback, however. As an example, here’s the crappy-ass beginning of a novel I wrote in 2006: An hour ago, he [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Since I was traveling all day on Monday, I forgot I didn’t make a real post! “My Dignity in Scars” is online for free at Strange Horizons. I am never the first to know the demons have returned. This time, I am at Ukaya’s house, trimming the hooves of her goats, because her joints are [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Witches: Wicked, Wild, and Wonderful includes my story, “The World is Cruel, My Daughter,” first published in Fantasy Magazine, 2011, which made the Tangent Online 2011 Recommended Reading List. This anthology contains twenty other reprints (and two originals) from much more distinguished authors. No, seriously. I don’t even belong in this anthology. I’m not saying [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Every summer, the local paper runs a collaborative work of fiction, involving six local authors to each write a “chapter.” This year the genre of the story is fantasy, and since I love speculative fiction I had to apply. I was rambunctiously excited when I was chosen to participate! Last night I (was late when [...]
In one of my stories, there was a place where the main character said: “Why did he climb the mountain?” And then a few paragraphs later, he goes: “So why climb the mountain?” I asked again, quieter this time. At the time, I was completely unaware of THIS HILARITY: …But luckily I have an editor [...]
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Want to see some of my art while you read some awesome stories? Alma Alexander’s River is an anthology of short stories that contain the dangerous and impossible, the poetic and elegant, the heartwarming and heart-breaking. I’ll go out on a limb and say that many of these tales would entertain and satisfy even people [...]
