When I was in the second grade, we’d get a book read aloud to us every Friday, unless we were bad. We were bad all the time, but Mrs. Ellis […]
Ravencon 2018
I’ll be at this year’s Ravencon in Williamsburg Virginia! It’s my first time at this con, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this one is different from every other […]
Antler Review: March
This month’s Antler Review is hella political. So strap in, folks! First up: Tim Pratt had an awesome story about lost love and making deals in the underworld. Apex magazine […]
Norwescon 2018
I’ll be at Norwescon for the last weekend in March, and I hope to run into you there! If you’d like to run into me, here’s some clues: I’ll […]
Antler Review: February
I spent the entire month of February away from home. I talked to young girls in a STEAM program in SoCal about being an author. I did a workshop at […]
Hestia Residency: Savannah 2018
“Don’t touch the moss,” our guide said. “It’s crawling with mites. Chiggers. Bugs.” I pulled my hand back. We were walking the historic Bonaventure cemetery in Savannah, surrounded […]
My Freewrite Review
First of all, for those who have never heard of it, that thing in the image up top is a Freewrite. It’s a wifi-enabled portable typewriter. It exists to allow […]
Antler Review: January
I began this year with a grand and ambitious plan: I was going to review short fiction. After all, I read a metric fuckton of short fiction. I subscribe to […]
The Book of Etta Made the Shortlist for the PKD!
I got the news in the usual way one does these days: phone lit up and buzzed itself off my desk and on to the floor. My second novel, The […]
The Midwife’s Christmas Gift
I wrote a scene into my first book, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, wherein one of the characters gives another one a very thoughtful Christmas gift. Without giving it […]