May 2017
Ice Ice Baby
2016 was hard. And 2017, well. WELL. I feel like we all need a little extra fun now and then, right? We need to be able to put the real world on pause, while we explore the depths of a world that isn't poised to lose so much of what it has built up these […]
Hooked
Last Thursday, I did something I'd been thinking about for a while; I picked up a crochet hook and started crocheting. I found a video on YouTube and away I went, hooking yarn as if I'd done it all my life, spinning out hats and cowls and arm warmers and-- Oh wait, no. It wasn't […]
How My 9 Clarkesworld Stories Are Like the Cast of Firefly (Maybe)
Apparently I've published nine stories with Clarkesworld now. If you'd told me this would happen three years ago, I would have scoffed. I've read Clarkesworld for a long time and dreamed of selling them a story -- from my records it looks like I first submitted to them in 2009. Nine rejections followed over the […]
Old Things
If you are acquainted with my writing, you know I like old things. My stories and novels gravitate toward history -- albeit sometimes history we haven't written down yet. There are two universes I like to play in: one is rooted in ancient Egypt, the other in the timeless fields of carnivals. My new Apex […]
Baroness
I love space. I also love our solar system. It's never not fascinating. New Horizons going to Pluto? Curiosity going to Mars? Cassini studying Saturn? Juno peeping at Jupiter? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! We live in an amazing age for this stuff. I eat it up! My new Clarkesworld story, "Baroness," is set on Saturn's moon, Titan. We […]