Author of the Small Worlds series
My birthday was yesterday. At work, some of my lovely co-workers gave me a ton of soda, bought me lunch and a snack, and gave me some foil balloons. It was a great time, and I had a ton of fun at work because of it - always good to feel appreciated. As I left …
Continue reading Cats and Balloons, Or How I Accidentally Let Evil into my Home – A Loki Story
So after my last post was basically me begging Marvel not to traumatize Carol Danvers and calling them out for how they treat their female protagonists, I only thought it was appropriate to make today’s post a review of the movie itself. Since I haven’t posted a movie review before, a bit about how I …
If you do a quick Google search for ways to make money from home, one thing that will often come up is “write an ebook.” Technically it is correct. Writing an ebook is a way you can earn money. However, what those articles often ignore is that that writing a book is an expensive process, …
Continue reading What’s it Cost to Publish? A Breakdown of Expenses
Hey, just wanted to lead with a quick note: this is going to be more of a Serious Topic ™ than what I normally address on the blog. I know this comes very late. I know that Captain Marvel comes out in about a month. I’m excited for it! I’ve loved pretty much all of …
Continue reading Dear Marvel: Please Don’t Traumatize Carol Danvers
I pretty much exclusively write, and pay attention to, genre fiction. I’m a proud resident of Genretopia, and don’t look outside of my own little subset very often. However, today when I hopped on Twitter, I came across #copypastecris, and discovered that someone had committed the absolute worst crime possible for writers over in Romanceland. …
Continue reading Plagiarism and You – How to Respond When You are Plagiarized
The sheriff’s intervention comes under the heading of what we have discussed many times before: “Why don’t they go to the police?” I’ve always replied, “They don’t go to the police because it’s dull.” -Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock by Truffaut: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock This quote is from a 1965 interview of Alfred Hitchcock, …
“My battery is low, and it’s getting dark.” This was the final message from the Opportunity Mars rover, caught in a massive Martian dust storm. Eight months later, NASA has declared the rover officially ‘deceased.’ You probably already know this - the internet has kind of been exploding with it ever since it happened. I …
Continue reading Opportunity Was Everything Great About Humanity
