writing
Beneath Ceaseless Skies

In 2009, I made my first submission to Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I had to take a deep breath as I clicked SEND, because I had been reading BCS for about a year, and loved both the fiction they published and their overall aesthetic. They ran fiction from authors I already loved (Marie Brennan), and authors […]

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Cloud Dweller

When it comes to my traveling circus, I don't include a lot of "normal" circus tropes. My circus doesn't have an elephant, for example. But there are a few tropes I want to play with, because I think they'll fit well. I also like writing about my home state, so when I realized I was […]

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F&M #5

I've started outlining Folley & Mallory #5, which does not have a working title. Here's a peek...

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writing
All the Things

Writing, as we have said, is both the best and the worst at the same time; it is, perhaps, the Schrodinger's cat of the arts. You can slog away for a long, long time, and see no results. You can think oh my god this is the actual worst I'm doing all this work and […]

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Going Away

This past month (or forty days, who's counting), I've been away. I took a break from bullshit and annoyances, which meant going quiet in a couple realms where I usually participate, reading less on social media, and doing something altogether new in regard to the book of face. Sometimes, I once wrote to a dear […]

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writing
Stargazer

When I was a Girl Scout Brownie (I still have my beret and dress and vest, with all my patches and pins and accomplishments), we spent what felt like forever but was probably only a long weekend at a local mountain camp. I wish I remembered more clearly where. I hated most of the activities, […]

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The Honey Mummy Goodreads Giveaway

What's better than a new book? How about a new book that's free! Apokrupha is giving away three trade paperback copies of The Honey Mummy to US readers. (I know, international reading peeps, that is lousy for you.) How do you enter? All you have to do is click right here! The giveaway will be […]

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The Honey Mummy, Release Day

Callooh! Callay! It's The Honey Mummy release day! If you preordered the ebook, it should be in your device whispering "open, open, open!" Isn't the future amazing? If you waited for the paper version, scamper over to Amazon and get yourself a copy! (As of this post, waiting for mothership Amazon to update, c'mon mothership...) Aren't […]

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In Praise of Friendships

One of the best aspects of the Folley & Mallory books is friendship. While there are absolutely romances in these books, there are also friendships, which can be no less complicated than romantic love. Virgil and Auberon are partners in their work, and have slowly become friends, after the loss of Virgil's prior partner, Joel. […]

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books
My Genre

The more I write and the more I read, the more it seems I gravitate toward the genre of Historical Ladies Kicking Butt. Eleanor Folley, whose third adventure arrives next week, certainly fits into that category. The loss of her mother as a child spurred her toward a life that ended up mirroring her mother's […]

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