With my first published story about Ben, is now available for download or in a print edition here. The story is "Different in Blood," and it stars a were-squonk. It's a free download for your e-reader, and if you don't have a Kindle, there's an app for that which works on your desktop.

Go forth! Read! Enjoy!

My squonk story has been accepted for publication! More details as events warrant.

FLIST. DO THE DANCE OF JOY.

I got in the last bits of edits on the Janni story (unless and until I hear more from the folks who have it) and re-read Ghost Ship. I didn't outline it, but I re-read it. Yeah, it doesn't know what kind of story it wants to be and I'm almost afraid to ask. There's no dramatic tension, not really, it doesn't pop like it should, and neither the ( Read more... )

I'm actually not being sarcastic. Got a rejection last night for the Squonk story and immediately flipped it to Writers of the Future, since they haven't seen it yet, the deadline is the 30th, and there's no way I'm going to finish the steampunk werewolf western in time. It is stalled like a big stalled thing. Still waiting on word for Won His Soul ( Read more... )

So, on this date eleven years ago, my husband the pilot was in the air and I was home alone with a six-month-old baby. And a bunch of people hijacked planes and murdered nearly three thousand of my fellow countrymen, which is almost as many people as lived in the town I grew up in. People who tell me I should "get over it" and that 9/11 wasn't ( Read more... )