Fantasy and science fiction books and blogposts
Happy Solstice, everyone! Last year, a dark horse of a book made it on my Best of 2018 list. Glory's Teeth was a wonderful, odd bit of urban fantasy in the vein I like most: strange gods with feelings and existential crises of their own. I found it because a random tweet from the author... Continue Reading →
About a year and a half ago, I was chatting with a friend. This person had been mostly supportive of my writing in the past. During the conversation, however, he dismissively referred to writing as my hobby. Flash forward to January of 2019, when I realized that he might have been, at least in some... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year! June means we check in on the resolutions and see where our progress is. This year I've got some fun things to report! Rejections Stories If you've been following me on my Instagram, you can see that I've reached 12 rejections out of our goal of 50 (or one acceptance)!... Continue Reading →
I've been reading a lot of romances lately, and I know those aren't everyone's cup of tea. Graphic sex is often a feature, and those hot and steamy scenes might be a fun time for me but they aren't for everybody. That said, I think there are some things that they do well, and some... Continue Reading →
I've been a little behind with things recently as I was dealing with a huge dayjob deadline at the beginning of May. It meant that I couldn't work on writing for about two weeks, at all, and things got a little hectic. So I'm playing catch-up for the next couple of weeks, and then I'm... Continue Reading →
Short post this week, but a fun one! I encountered the Random City Generator a few months back, and I've really been enjoying playing with it. While I haven't been doing a great deal of mapping for my stories recently, I do use maps a lot to visualize different communities. Previous to this, I have... Continue Reading →
I understand how it can be frustrating to be reading or watching a story and suddenly get thrown out of it by something not being accurate to scientific fact, especially in a genre that is supposedly playing with possible futures like science fiction.
My dad recently found out that I read science fiction. I'm not sure how he missed this, as I have always read science fiction, even when I was living in his house, but it was apparently sort of traumatizing for him. Contemporary science fiction thrillers and certain dystopias seem to not count. He considers science... Continue Reading →
For those who haven't see it, I did an interview last week on Luna Station Quarterly (the publishers of my short story, "At Love's Heart". Enjoy!
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