I don’t know if “Three Sentence Thursday” is actually a thing, but I decided it’s a thing today. I wanted to pick out three sentences at random from my upcoming Soldier of Dorsa (Prologue here and Chapter 1 here, plus this other random little bit here — beta, obvi) novel. Read more…
I was going to give you a little sneak peek at Joslyn’s childhood, since that’s what I’ve been working on this blustery Sunday morning, but then I thought, Nah, the last two things I’ve shared (the Soldier of Dorsa Prologue and Chapter 1) have both had Joslyn at the center Read more…
A big “thank you” to all the readers out there who have helped make Princess of Dorsa a success. I was nervous about writing an epic fantasy / lesbian novel hybrid. I shouldn’t have been nervous. I should have realized that there would be other queer nerds out there who Read more…
Alright, you guys. It’s December 31, 2018, and as always, I’m determined to make next year better than this year. That includes WRITING MORE BOOKS. My last two years (2017 and 2018) have seen a lot of upheaval and turmoil. Some of it is too personal to mention in a Read more…
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…
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…