I’m really excited about this year’s ballot because I know many of the nominees. That makes it fun for me because there’s an added level of excitement and anticipation. Also, for the first time ever, I have a work on the ballot! Nothing Without Us is a nominee in the Best Related Work category. Kohenet …
Continue reading Voting for the 2020 Prix Aurora Awards is now open!
Review of The Stealth Lovers at Iara’s Chronicles.
This made my heart happy. 🙂
As much as I enjoy writing romance on occasion, I’m not usually one for reading a romance novel. Give me action adventure in any setting, give me a furry graphic novel instead! Heck, I will take my dull-as-drywall college biology textbook over anything to do with mushy love stories that are long winded period piece dramas involving tea and crumpets any day of the week! Or worse, the “love stories” that are just Harlequin Romance novels…you know the ones. The trashy 50 Shades of Gray, hot dude…
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Author’s note: This is my flash fiction for July's entry of the 2020 Flash Fiction Challenge. Each month of 2020, on the first Monday, I’ll draw cards to determine the genre, setting, and an object that has to appear in the short story. Participants will have until the following Monday to link their stories to the blog …
And we're more than half-way through this heavy year, but we're still pressing on with the 2020 Flash Fiction Challenge. Thanks to my faithful band of writers who have been playing along. I appreciate you! June's authors took on historical fiction in a really creative way! (Read June's stories here.) Now it's time for our …
Squee! To be perfectly honest, I am so shy and insecure about my nonfiction pieces. It's much easier for me to relay my truths through quirky aliens who eat cake and have space adventures. But a while back I wrote a piece about how I experience hearing. A true account of my relationship with sounds …
Continue reading I’ve had a short work of nonfiction published in Wordgathering’s June 2020 edition!
Sorry this post is so late. I’m currently on a type of hiatus, for physical and mental health reasons. And I didn’t write a story this month because I was heavily involved in an online writers con, then my brain and body went *poof*. Thankfully, we have authors who did write flash fiction for June. …
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It might seem odd that I am continuing this fun and non-competitive flash fiction game during a global pandemic and a time of gross injustices (Black lives matter!), but I strongly feel that taking a break to be creative is really good for my mental health. If you're not up to it this month, that's …
Continue reading Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: June [UPDATE]
This virtual writers conference by my publisher, Renaissance, is going to be such a blast! It will have great panels, readings, book launches, and even an interactive vendors room chat (on Discord). Oh yeah, it's FREE to attend! How awesome is that? Learn more! I'll be on the following panels: June 6, 2 PM: Bad …
Continue reading I’m going to be a panelist at Renaissance’s Virtual Writers Con!
It warms my heart that my trusty band of author humans continue to write their super-creative stories. Thanks, author humans! Last week, I drew these cards: 9 of spades, 2 of hearts, and the 9 of diamonds. That meant the genre was action-adventure, the setting was a fandom gathering, and the object that must appear …
