It's fall, soon to be winter, and here in Southwest Virginia everything is dying back. Yet I've planted some new seeds in anticipation of spring and National Poetry Month, thanks to the generous funding of the City of Roanoke and the National Endowment of the Arts. In April of 2023, I will be coordinating a... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-up: January 2023
Wow, can you believe it! It's 2023 already! And the end of January at that! We are 1/12th of the way through the year and my brain does not compute. I was in a bit of a reading slump this month, not for any reason except that I spent a good chunk of the beginning... Continue Reading →
Social media, artificial intimacy, voyeurism
I've been doing some naval gazing around my social media strategies over the past month or so, ever since my largest platform, Twitter, went through some major upheavals that may eventually result in the company going under. Creatives of all stripes are caught firmly in the grip of social media and web strategies to try... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year!
It's a new year, and we've got some fun things to look forward to this year! So, in keeping with tradition, here are my goals, plans, and hopes for 2023! So let's start with the definite stuff. I've got a grant with the City of Roanoke's Year of the Artist program to execute! You can... Continue Reading →
Favorite Books and Short Stories of 2022
We're doing a combined post this year because somehow I got through the majority of 2022 without reading a lot of short stories. I know, this upsets me, too. I hope you'll take the time to check out the ones I did read and love, as well as the amazing novels in this list. Short... Continue Reading →
Hello, folks! Please check out my new short story, "Learn to Fly," published this week on the Roanoke Rambler!
New Short Story!
December Reading Round-up
Happy Yule, y'all! I'm working on my annual best of lists, but if you're looking for (very) last minute gifts or trying to figure out what to do with you new book dollars post-holiday, here are some things I've read a loved this month! Also, tune in at the start of next month for an... Continue Reading →
A 2022 Re-cap
It's the end of another year, which is kind of baffling! This year has gone by super quickly. Let's take a look at what I've accomplished this year, for my own sanity! In January-ish I made a post detailing my goals for 2022. The TL;DR of that post is: Finish a draft of Alabaster Futurescapes... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-Up: November 2022
Hey, folks! We've got a more normal-sized Reading Round-up this week, and not all of the books are horror! Congratulations! To be honest I've been a little off my feed as it were, since I've been very caught up with querying and some of the fun projects, but I enjoyed everything on this list and... Continue Reading →
Wakanda Forever
I saw it. I loved it. One of the things I particularly loved about this Marvel movie was the fact that it didn't quite feel like a Marvel movie. There was an emphasis on grief and the difficulty of grieving that I thought was particularly well paced, a hard, bitter shell around the soft, gooey... Continue Reading →
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