So you may have noticed I haven't been writing much! That doesn't look likely to let up soon. I've paused my Patreon, and will probably be unpublishing (though this means that I will be charged higher fees if I ever publish my page again, and I'm considering that in my decision making over the next... Continue Reading →
Notes from the trenches
Hello, folks! Your friendly author here! This blog has been a little quiet because I've been running around doing author events and dayjob stuff and generally not reading much or having many fun adventures to talk to you about. I am absolutely itchy to be wrapped up with my current grant, even though it has... Continue Reading →
A reading slump and some ARCs
Today's post is a list of the ARCs I have in my TBR because I'm in a reading slump and I'm therefore having trouble getting through my tiny stack. Some of these books are out already -- some I've read earlier iterations of, even! I'm pretty sure I'm going to review all of these eventually,... 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 →
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 →
Announcing: Marquee in Verse
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 →
Writerly updates
I haven't done a personal check-in post in a while, so I thought I would drop in to provide some updates. My wordcount has been pretty depressed this year, which isn't really surprising. Some of the reasons for this are personal, some professional, but the big elephant in the room has been trying to get... Continue Reading →
Infernal Salon
Hey friends! I'm doing a fun little improv event tonight with some friends. If you're interested, you can stream it at twitch.tv/arvaneleron.
Salt and Lemons: The Amalfi Coast
When people talk about going to Italy, they travel for the art, the history, the landscapes and the pasta. And yet, what I most want to talk about is the lemons. After leaving Pompeii, we headed to Minori, a small town on the Amalfi Coast. The Amalfi Coast is the kind of place you film... Continue Reading →
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