Weird Magic

Writing is weird. There are all these people and places that exist entirely in my head. Yet they feel entirely real to me, so much so that the personalities take over, and all I can do is follow along as Read more

Location, location

I’m writing this in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about an hour from my home. I came up here for a few days to escape the chaos in my home: my husband is in the midst of remodeling our master bathroom. Read more

Recent Release Book Review: Once Upon a Dance by Kim Fielding

Reviewed by Sadonna   TITLE:  Once Upon a Dance AUTHOR:  Kim Fielding PUBLISHER:  Tin Box Press LENGTH:  70 pages RELEASE DATE: March 7, 2023 BLURB: Dom is an aging house-android, toiling away for the cruel and ungrateful owners of an Read more

Once Upon a Time

One upon a time…. I have a new novella out this week, a scifi take on Cinderella. So naturally I’ve been thinking quite a bit about fairy tales. I am, very obviously, not the first person to rework Cinderella. In Read more

Serendipity

Serendipity is one of my favorite words—not to mention one of my favorite things to have happen to me! In late November, I went to Germany to give a lecture at a university there. Which is a very cool thing Read more

Adapting

My suitcase just spent 10 days in a hotel in Austin, Texas. I hope it had a nice time. I was at home in California because, while I’d managed to rebook myself out of Texas when the airline melted down Read more