Category: Just Me
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A curious case of Deja Vu
Multiple people have mentioned seeing Dealmaker’s Gambit online– but if they did, it wasn’t from me. So how did they come across it?
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Just in time for Indiana Comic Con!
My awaited shipment of books arrived– just in time for Indiana Comic Con!
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About Gender
Before, any attempt at femininity felt like a miserable impersonation of the woman I couldn’t actually be. As I am, there’s no more pretending. The clothes I wear aren’t a disguise, but just the things I wear when I feel like it.
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A Worldbuilding Balancing Act, or: my beef with Beau Brummell
I’ve talked a little bit about the research that goes into writing fantasy stories. Even if the world you’re writing in is not at all the one we live in, I tend to think it’s safe to pull at least a little bit from our world’s history. Would people with…
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Fun with concept art
A lot of writers I’ve spoken to at conventions swear by the little extras at their table– I already have pins and little polymer dragons, but they particularly talk about the power of concept art and maps. Which resulted in the following conversation: Me: “Hey, do we have room in…
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Birthday time!
Today is my birthday, and that means all of you get a present! From the 25th to the 29th, you can get a free ebook of Mark of the Dragon on Amazon. If you want to give me a little something, how about leaving a review?
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A walk in the woods
A few months back, I went to a convention that had a fairly unusual layout compared to the rest of my experiences. Instead of me sitting alone at my little table hawking books to passersby, the author’s alley was like a little bookstore featuring all of the guest authors, with…
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Monsters and Metaphor, Part 2
To recap the previous post: There are a lot of horror stories that like to use monsters as a metaphor for people with mental illnesses. I prefer to think of the monsters as the mental illnesses themselves, whereas the people dealing with them are more the Buffy-esque badasses who deal…
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November 9, 2016
I spent today looking around at the beautiful city I live in and wondering how things got this way. I look around at the amazing and diverse people who make this city what it is, and my heart breaks for them. How many of their rights are at risk?…
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