Story time: Way back in 2023, on the long tail of Entry Level: Stories successes, I was querying agents for my completed novel, then called Jane with a Why (and before that, Fake Internet Friends and before that All This and before that Shitty Sharky Sharkness WIP because I always name my drafts with curses […]
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It’s been a pretty intense year, writing-wise, since I last posted. I visited Texas A&M in Texarkana, where ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES was chosen as the All-Campus Read for 2023. I attended my first Jane Austen North America general meeting. I went to AWP in Kansas City, where I primarily just hung out with friends, people-watched, […]
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I had the great honor of being asked to contribute to Alyson Shelton’s Where I’m From series. Here’s the video, especially if you enjoy talking about cheese curds, genealogy and inspiration.
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It’s sold out of Amazon and Barnes and Noble on pub day! What a weird and great problem to have. Your indie bookstores should have lots of copies available, and of course, there’s always e-books!
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Ugh, it’s so hard, isn’t it? You pour your heart into the page and then you receive repeated “no thank you” emails from editors and agents who clearly must have not missed your beautiful and lyrical words. Is it you? Is your breath bad? Does your manuscript have BO? It might be your first page. […]
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Hey, it’s my birthday. Let’s buy presents for readers who need books. Happy summer! So, it’s my birthday this month. And while I’m struggling to age gracefully, I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of legacy and the marks we make on our communities and this planet. If you know me at all, you […]
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I am now more than half way through my PhD. I also did not pass my first attempt at testing out of the “language reading proficiency” requirement. Half way might be longer than it seems. In other news, in 2016, I started a thing, along with a co-founder friend. We asked some other friends to […]
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Some things: The short story I mentioned in the previous blog post was “Ghosting” and it’s up on the publications page for its appearance in Non-Binary Review. My flash story “Feogin” placed in the Syntax and Salt autumn flash fiction contest. It will be published on 10/30 and I’ll update the link when that […]
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I spent my summer vacation with a bunch of really amazing people named Evee the Pokemon and Super Fantastic Bubble Plastic and Scrounge and Lady Lazuli in the Hudson Valley region of New York. We ate a lot of hippy food, drew until our hands hurt and then laughed and read aloud and laughed […]
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I have a funny little OCD problem: I can’t concentrate if resources are being wasted. For instance, if the light is left on in the bathroom, I’m incensed. I will think of nothing else until I can turn it off. Similarly, the dishwasher can drive me to distraction. We live in an old house, the […]
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