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The Runner-Up

I am thrilled to share that I am a runner up in the Futurescapes Writing Contest! A year ago I saw a call for submissions for the contest with the theme Cities of Empowerment. Reading the blurb about what they’re … Continue reading

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Real World Unreal

The next Theme-Thology from HDWP Books came out this week! It’s available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, and other outlets. π Instead of interviewing all or a few of my antho-mates, I asked just one question to the writers who contributed to this anthology: What is unreal … Continue reading

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Sample Group Interview

I’ve been published in several anthologies, and one challenge is how to promote the book with so many wonderfully diverse writers. For both Felt Tips and Precipice, I interviewed several of the authors. That’s great, but I didn’t have enough … Continue reading

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Biblical Ancient Aliens

I have an unhealthy addition to Cherry Coke and H2’s Ancient Aliens. The good thing is, both fuel my writing. The Cherry Coke though, is particularly bad for me. I’m trying to quit. I’m not about to quit Ancient Aliens. … Continue reading

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When the Wedding Isn’t the Climax

Skip down to ROW80 with me… I just wrote a wedding scene. The story is romance…SciFi Polyamorous Romance, to be specific. But this doesn’t mean I’m almost done with this WIP; this story still has a ways to go. I … Continue reading

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Struggling and Straggling

I’m struggling this week. We’re four weeks into the semester, which means I’m grading papers, which I loathe. I want to just assume that my lectures are so brilliantly inspiring that all my students will breeze through all the assignments, … Continue reading

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The Goal Post for June 5

I did it! I submitted to a big magazine. A 3k story to Analog! All the submissions I’ve done thus far have been to small press…even micro-press anthologies and magazines. I’ve very proud of the acceptances I’ve had, and I’m … Continue reading

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A Story About Sex

First, my ROW80 update, because it is a huge pet peeve of mine to click on someone’s link-up just to find a long rambling post about lettuce or something and the ROW80 update is an afterthought at the end, or … Continue reading

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Interview with Tracy Rimdzius

Tracy Rimdzius is my fellow Precipice author and the blogger behind Logy Express. Since Tracy works in the humor-free field of research, she decided to reprise the snark of the humor newspaper (the original Logy Express) she created in high school in personal … Continue reading

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12-12-12

How am I doing on my #ROW80 goals? Fracking Fantastic! Today my story was published!  OK… I’ll calm down. Well, no I won’t… but I’ll keep my composure. The actual writing goals? Very good, actually, although my focus has temporarily … Continue reading

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