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Pi Day!
Anyone who’s followed this place long enough knows I love Pi Day. It’s one of my favorite holidays – right up there with Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the day Skynet became self-aware. I make a few...
View ArticleWorld Horror Con 2014 – Portland. Day: Friday
There was a Day: Thursday but it was full of unspeakable things. They have gone around a corner that may have looked acute and acted obtuse, never to be seen or heard from or of again. These things do...
View ArticleWorld Horror Convention 2014 – Portland. Day: Saturday
Saturday was one of those days where you don’t know what to expect going in to it. I was marginally less coughtastic, but disheartened after the Friday fiasco of sleeping mid-day. Nonetheless, I...
View ArticleBook Cover Tag
One of my writer-friends, December, tagged me to do this. It’s not normally my style, but I’m way past due on an update, and it’s as good an excuse as any. What can I say, I’ve been writing and editing...
View Article2014: Terms and Conditions
I dedicated most of 2014 to working on my final draft of my young adult novel Terms and Conditions. I wrote flash fiction about the side-characters. I researched plot points. I was absolutely obsessed...
View Article2015: Connection Terminated
Welcome, 2015. The year of writing, editing, and polishing Connection Terminated. I was talking to a few friends the other day about how terrifying I find the idea behind my novels. Being booted from...
View Article2015: Connection Terminated: Names
A small confession about character names: One of my best friends is a fairly popular young adult author. She’s got more than a dozen books out. More than a few fans. She’s got books in every library...
View ArticleConnection Terminated: Major Life Shift
For the past nine years I’ve worked in some capacity or another for Dr. Ping-Tung Chang, 2010 United States Professor of the Year and fairly brilliant math professor. He’s an impatient, bossy person....
View ArticleConnection Terminated: History
At it’s core, in it’s current draft, Connection Terminated is about the way things end. Lives. Stories. Games. But it’s also about how things go on – how we deal with legacies, on living based on what...
View Article2015: Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions seems to be my ghost. It’s haunting me. I don’t think I’ll finish Connection Terminated until I’ve got Terms and Conditions wrapped properly. There was a time that would have made...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day 2015: Girl Guilds
International Women’s Day seems like as good a time to discuss this as any: if I would be the token girl in your game group, guild, etc – or you only have one token female – I am not going to join, no...
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The Ghost of Pi Days Past
I love Pi Day. It’s an excuse to do a bunch of nerdy baking and then go around like a pie fairy granting people pie. Here’s a brief selection of my Pi Day pies from the past. Expect nerdy pies from...
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Pi Day 2015
Only managed two pies this year because I was house sitting for most of the day. The T-Rex from the Jurassic Park logo for me and Baymax by request of the nine-year-old.
View ArticleIditarod Season
If you follow me on any sort of social media, you know I’m from Alaska. I mention it not infrequently, saying things like: “Wait, August is summer in other places? #alaskan.” “There is a moose in my...
View ArticleFive Common Sense Pieces of Critique Etiquette I Wish I’d Been Told
1. Submit your piece with proper manuscript format. There’s a reason people ask for it. It’s readable, leaves room for notes, and quickly gives a basic idea of how long the piece is (and therefore an...
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