Award Season
My short fiction that was published in 2013 and is now eligible for All The Awards: Wrought Out From Within Upon the Flesh, The Dark #2 The Sea Half-Held By Night, Dead North Once November, Tales of Jack the Ripper Artificial Nocturne, Beneath Ceaseless Skies By the Book, Lamplight IV Inventing Isaac, Gone Lawn (R+D) […]
Feeding You
I think if I could feed you all, I would. I love cooking for people — it doesn’t even have to be cake, though cake is very dear to me. Have you met me? Hi, I’m Elise and I adore cake. Food plans for this year: eat more veggies, eat more whole food, challenge myself […]
Hello, 2014
While making turkey soup a few days ago, I plucked off some celery stalks and a wee green caterpillar tumbled to the counter. I thought it would be dead, given the time in the fridge, but I touched it with a celery leaf and it drew up into itself like a roly poly. Alive. What […]
The Last Dance
You deserve something lovely. This is your sign-up thread to win GOLD & GLASS, my steampunk-fantasy-historical-romance mashup extravaganza! You want SILVER & STEAM, too? Okay, fine! Leave a comment! It’s just that easy peasy! I will draw using random.org this Friday, December 27! Midnight EST? Midnight EST! Here’s an excerpt to wet yer whistle. You […]
2013 Reading
I always feel bad about not reading more — which is lame and ridiculous, given how much I do read. It’s not a competition, after all. I mean, in addition to 53+ books (I’ll finish at least two more before December 31), I read 1700 Shimmer submissions (is that possible? checks and checks again and […]
He Believed That She Believed
It was strangely intimate, her ideas conveyed by him. She didn’t ask herself if he believed it; he believed that she believed and that was enough. The memory of that day pressed near again as Mallory’s hand closed around her arm. She recalled the way the riders had grabbed her, remembered the stench of the […]
What If (2013)
What if you published a book and no one knew? What if you spent years getting to know characters and locations and histories and no one else knew you had built an entire world? What if you spent countless days writing of them, in notebooks and napkins, with pixels and pens? What if you knew […]
Almost Human Made Me Swoon
aka: Ten Reasons I Fucking Love Almost Human, thank you Rachael Acks. 1. In four out of five episodes, Lady Cops stay inside the precinct. The future is dangerous, so I appreciate being shown a future that Protects, Values, and Nurtures the ladies. Yes, they can wear guns, because the Future is Dangerous, and if […]
‘Tis the Season
Oh, the weather outside has been frightful. We have been below zero for much too long here — today feels like a revelation at 25 degrees! But Santa, and other gift givers, shall not be deterred! As part of the ‘Tis More Blessed giveaways, this is your weekly signup thread for GOLD & GLASS, my […]
Gold & Glass Giveaway!
Dear Reader, If you have wanted to read GOLD & GLASS, but haven’t yet gotten your hands on this steampunk adventure, this is the deal for you! I am going to be giving away ebooks of GOLD & GLASS (epub or mobi) the entire month of December as part of Milo James Fowler’s ‘Tis More […]