Earlier this week, I was feeling great about the possibilities of getting a job offer today. Late yesterday I got an email saying that, like the last three jobs I felt sure I was going to get, the job has gone on hold while the company re-evaluates what they genuinely need. To some degree, I’m
Hello, Readers! I hope you are all taking good care of yourself as we isolate ourselves and hope this virus situation doesn’t get any worse. I’m trying to stay optimistic, but I’ll admit it can be hard. It’s so weird to see the traffic map completely green! I’ve been in the SF Bay Area for
I feel like there should be something witty or comforting to say right now, but the world around us is falling to pieces, people can’t work, can’t make money and the bills still come. All around me people who work in stores and salons and theaters are filing unemployment claims to try to scrape by
It’s a scary time out there, Readers, and I hope that you are all alright and taking good care of yourselves and your family. As someone with a mother in her 70s with compromised lungs who lives with people in the service industry, it’s kind of terrifying. Everyday I worry that my brother or his
For most of my adult life I have had bouts of insomnia. There are just times when my body isn’t tired or my brain won’t turn off. They used to be nights of no sleep. Lately, they have been nights of sleeping super hard and deep for two to three hours, then waking up and
My beta readers have started to come back with their feedback on the zero draft of The Blood Witch, a thing that always makes me both nervous and excited at the same time. A lot of people think that writing the book is the hard part, but for me it is always that first flush
Wow, how did we get to March so fast?! Seems like we were only just sludging our way through the year of January, and now we’ve made a slide into March. My plans to take over the world have fallen seriously behind. Something must be done! No, seriously, while things are ugly in the world
This week I finished the zero draft of The Blood Witch! It is currently in the hands of my first beta reader. No matter how many times I finish writing a book, it always comes with a thrill of accomplishment. This book was born two years ago while at Sirens. The main character, Thána Alizon,
I’m sitting here in the dark, quiet morning, sipping on coffee and getting words down on the page. In a little bit I will go dig at the job boards and such for new, exciting places to submit my resume to, but for now it’s just me and my story. Yesterday was a good writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about my language around gender, and how much of those ingrained throw away phrases are dependent on a very binary, very uneven understanding of what gender is. We could start with the idea that seems to permeate at least American culture that you can use the words “girl” and “woman”
