“Tomorrow Is a Difficult Proposition” available to read at Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
An immortal cosmic being falls in love with a mortal ship’s captain and loses her in the vastness of time and space.
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“Tomorrow Is a Difficult Proposition” available to read at Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
An immortal cosmic being falls in love with a mortal ship's captain and loses her in the vastness of time and space.
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Gears of an intelligent universe
Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
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OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty
My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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What I Wish School Had Taught Me about Operating as a Human Being
More than a decade and a half has passed since I graduated high school, and I still find myself rehashing all the areas that my formal education failed me. Sometimes...
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The Judgmental Advice Column: Friends and Movie References
If someone hasn't seen a movie that you like, it says everything about them as a person. The Judgmental Advice Column tackles friends who don't get movie and TV references.
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That’s a Kris Problem: when others refuse to use my gender-neutral name
What do you do when others refuse to use your chosen name the instant someone who ranks higher in the patriarchy shows up with the same name?
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The Mom Box
I now exist in the narrow construct of The Mom Box, where my entire identity is filtered through a set of assumptions about mothers and motherhood, and it's surprising that I eat food and have opinions.
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The Little Passive Mermaid Lady: Why Ariel is Actually Terrible
In Part Two, The Little Mermaid's Ariel relinquishes her badassery and delivers on the promise of feminist nightmare I had been expecting.
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The Little Badass Mermaid Anthropologist: Why Ariel is Actually Awesome
One thing I wasn’t expecting from The Little Mermaid? To find the title character herself even remotely interesting, let alone a beacon of competence and badassery in the midst of a literal ocean of incompetent and evil associates.
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Gears of an intelligent universe
Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
Life lessons from Stardew Valley: keep your spouse happy by saying one thing to them per day and giving them a blueberry.
OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty
My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Pumpkin Goblins has a print version!
Yup, that finally happened!
And I took a a picture of it in damp leaves. For proof. Because I don’t know, maybe you wouldn’t believe me?
(For the record, no books were harmed in the making of this blog post.)
Finally getting the print copy up was the impetus for relaunching the book last year, but it was the only part of the relaunch I didn’t get to–and this despite the fact that I had the files an inch from ready the first time around.
The response to this has been awesome–I’m not alone in my old school preference for print! (Even though I’ve definitely been enjoying my Kobo Clara the last few months!)
But even better than people buying the print copy? Reading it to my four-year-old. This started as a mandatory chapter per night before I went on to read Little Blue Truck or Phoebe and Her Unicorn (which is a much more awesome comic strip than you’d think from the name!), but it’s now turned into something she looks forward to, and she’s been asking a ton of great questions.
Anyway, you can grab a copy of the paperback here.
Stranger Shores, fantasy, and fruity wine
An interview with fantasy author Katie Zaber. Wine-making, writer-chaos, and visits to Stranger Shores.
Virgins and apples
Along with my Stars Fall Out revision, I’ve also been drafting Bitter Machines, the sequel(s) to Stars. Working this way has some pros and cons. Cons? Drafting a second, likely 200,000-word book takes a bit …
It’s quite simple, really
In this excerpt from Stars Fall Out, Vilari walks into her new life as the first-ever student of a mysterious, engineered magic, and finds that Professor Ghordaa lives up to the rumors. This is another …
One does not simply walk out of the bakery
It’s been a long, long time since I posted an excerpt (or anything else, for that matter) on the blog. In a figurative, internet-posting sense, I’m a terrible juggler; if I’m updating my newsletter regularly …
Going Back to Normal Bingo: COVID-19 Introverted Pessimist Edition
Because it’s not all beach parties and booze, and anyway, screw beach parties and booze.
What’s my reward for staring down my obsessive-compulsive disorder and going inside a Dunkin Donuts during the pandemic, rather than using the drive-thru?
Straws. As many freakin’ straws as I want. And napkins too.