I hunted down the lyrics to a song I love to open “Part II” of my upcoming novel Eastside / Westside / Love (previous beta title was The Redevelopment of Drea and Kasey). The song is “But Anyway” by Tarica June, an artist I really like a lot. Take a Read more…
I’m dubbing today No Excuses Saturday. It sounds really good but fails to take into account that I woke at 7am and promptly laid in bed for almost three hours (yes, you read that correctly, I said “almost THREE HOURS”) listening to an audiobook and playing a sort of updated Read more…
So one way the many ways that I procrastinate and avoid getting down to the actual work I need to do is that I write on other projects. What I tell myself: “I will just work on this other project for a little while to warm myself up. Then once Read more…
The project I’m currently working on (beta title: The Redevelopment of Drea and Kasey) has a lot of bits and pieces of my own experiences woven into it. In particular, the suburbs. THE SUBURBS. I’m sorry, but don’t you think suburbia is a little bit the Twilight Zone? Amiright? When Read more…
I’m an enormous fan of The Walking Dead. *Enormous*. Enormous enough I actually have a bobble-head doll of Glenn on my desk — a doll I bought in Senoia, Georgia, where they film the show. Enormous enough that I get frequently reminded by the gf, “You’re a dork, you know Read more…
I like a good challenge. My girlfriend says I’m too hard on myself and she’s probably right (of course she’s right — she reminds me all the time that she’s ALWAYS right), but I also believe that you have to push a little in life if you’re going to make Read more…
I feel like I should be singing some Britney Spears — “Oops, I did it again.” I’ve written before about the dicey position of writing about race while white. But when I’ve written characters of color before, the issues they’ve faced around racism have always been an important but tangential Read more…
In case you didn’t hear the good news, Princess of Dorsa is finally live on Amazon! You can get it here. But an author’s job is never done — there are always more stories to write. I’ve already started on my next novel. It’s untitled at the moment, but I’m Read more…
Okay. I know I owe you all an apology. For a while, I’d been writing along at a nice clip, publishing new chapters for you every week. Then I missed a week. Then I caught up. Then I missed… a lot of weeks. Here are my excuses: 1) I got Read more…
I found this audio clip from my first lesfic novel, To Have Loved & Lost, while answering a question from my narrator for Reverie. It’s from close to the end of the book, but it doesn’t give any spoilers away (it’s only about 90 seconds long). Take a listen… Here’s Read more…