Empress of Dorsa Update: Total words today: 1,395Manuscript total: 19,026 Yes, as you can see from my word count, I started all over again with Empress of Dorsa. Out of the 93,000 words I wrote on the first go, so far I have kept just Chapter 1. Oh, to laugh Read more…
Empress of Dorsa update: Total words today: 0 so far but I will write as soon as I finish this post.Manuscript total: 5,388 of about 120,000 projected (That’s right, I started over.) — “What’s happening feels a lot like the ’60s,” my friend E said to me as we discussed Read more…
Lockdown progress report for May 7, 2020 Total words: 0 (haven’t started yet)Manuscript total: 57,249 I keep reading news articles with desperate public health officials repeating the same thing over and over again: Choosing between keeping people alive and reopening the economy is a false dichotomy. – Public health officials, Read more…
Total words: 0 (I haven’t started yet today)Manuscript total: 11,035 I’m a registered Independent and have been since I first voted at age 18. Granted, I’m left-leaning and I vote Democrat 90 percent of the time, but I have voted Republican in local elections and I reserve the right to Read more…
It’s July 4th. Let me wave my miniature American flag to show how grateful I am to live in the land of the free. Oh, wait. I don’t have a mini-flag. And even if I did, I might not wave it. While I am grateful for being born in this Read more…
Alright, so here’s a question for everyone: What defines lesbian fiction? For the month of December, I teamed up with three other lesbian writers (two of us with full-length novels already published; one of us published in a few literary journals; the last of us an aspiring novelist) who promised 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…
I wanted to wish you a happy Pride… which I realize I’m a little late with. Pride Weekend came and went July 14 and 15th here in San Diego. From what I hear, San Diego Pride is one of the biggest, coolest, most awesomest Pride celebrations in the country. But, Read more…
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, someone asked me, “What are your preferred pronouns?” I was sitting outside a Starbucks with my girlfriend, chatting about types of hot peppers, when one of her mom-friends walked out of the Starbucks with another mom, their two toddlers in tow. “LT!” Read more…
One day, I might explain in greater detail why 2017 was both one of the hardest years and one of the best years in my life… so far. For now, I will say… It was the year I had my mid-life crisis, of that there is no doubt, the crisis Read more…