I’m so darn lazy that I’m pulling this out of an email I wrote rather than taking the time to write an original blog post. It’s about Orange is the New Black. The good news is that, hey, at least it’s short: I read the book a while back, and for the Read more…
Over the Christmas holidays, I traveled to my ancestral home of rural Missouri. And when I say rural, I mean really, really rural. I mean the roads are all still dirt, just like they have been for as long as anyone can remember, and I mean that your nearest neighbor Read more…
Like her music or hate it, but give props to the Force of Nature that is — and has been for 35 years — Madonna. Few women have done more to redefine, and bring into the light of day, female sexual desire. Before Madonna, how common was it, how mainstream was Read more…
I’m going to start this post with another copy & paste from author Chuck Wendig, whose blog I love oh-so-very-much. (It might be the only blog I actually read on a regular basis.) Except this little excerpt isn’t by Chuck, it’s by his friend, author Andrea Phillips. Here’s the excerpt: Read more…
Hello, folks. This is the first bit of a recent post by Chuck Wendig, an author and a screenwriter whose blog I follow (and you should, too). I’m reposting a chunk of one of his posts here because it’s both funny and true and because you should read it. You Read more…
I live only a few miles from Comet Ping Pong, the DC pizza place where a man with an assault rifle walked in to “self-investigate” a fake story about a child sex trafficking operation taking place in the restaurant’s “underground tunnels.” I’ve never read the original fake news stories purporting Read more…
I admit it. I’ve been on a real tear lately. Here’s what I’ve done in the past 30 days: I published To Have Loved & Lost I joined about fifty million Facebook lesbian book / author groups I started a mailing list I’ve written 22,000 words of a follow-up novel Read more…