Hi friends! For those of you who have been keeping up with the progress on my new fantasy novel, I have something for you: A rough draft of the map of the Empire, complete with its Four Realms (The West, The Steppes, The South, and The East). You’ll find Tasia’s Read more…
A commenter on my blog mentioned her review over at Goodreads.com of To Have Loved & Lost, and, since I almost never visit Goodreads and therefore have very little notion of how my books are doing on that site, I decided maybe I should swing by and see what was Read more…
Yo. Today is 12/6/17, so I thought I would give you an excerpt from my new book Reverie, which now has an official release date: January 22, 2018. Yippee! It’s not the Thanksgiving release I was hoping for, but I’ll take it. Without further adieu, the excerpt: “So anyway, I Read more…
Do you know the site Genius.com? It takes song lyrics and explains where they came from. You search a song you’re interested in, like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and you can click on each lyric to see Genius’s commentary. Sometimes the commentary is a generic discussion of where else you might hear Read more…
Greetings from the Denver airport, where I’ve been sitting at the terminal on my laptop, working on some odds & ends as I await my flight to sunny San Diego. What I’ve been working on that you might be interested in: Setting up the details for a massive group lesfic Read more…
You can feel free to chastise me some more if you want, because yet another week has gone by without me making much progress on Anika takes the long way home up soul mountain. But I *did* make a lot of progress — as in, I am almost done with Read more…
Oh, friends. You should chastise me. You really should. I was on top of things for a while there, getting back into a good routine of writing my thousand-word minimum every day, and then… I fell off the wagon. There’s something I need to explain to you about writing, and Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…
Thank you, KStew. I’d just like to say that, briefly. Queer women the world round sort of cocked their heads like curious RCA dogs when they found out you were dating a girl. I’m not sure if I can endorse you as an actress or as a writer (although your Read more…
The word of the days, boys and girls (but probably mostly girls, if anyone at all — hello out there? * crickets echo in an empty room *) is insouciant. I discovered it reading an article in The New Yorker about queer Vietnamese poet, Ocean Vuong: Reading Vuong is like Read more…