fantasy


  • Tough Decisions

    A few weeks back, the weekend before KamiCon in Alabama, I found out that a good friend of mine had passed away. I had been friends with her for over 10 years, but we still kept in touch. We would encourage each other on writing and talking about work that we loved. She had fallen…


  • Sexism in Survival Situations

    When snow falls in the Southern U.S., everything closes. It’s something that the northern part of the country complains about, but then they close when temperatures dip over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. So I guess it’s not terribly different. My work closed today when we got about 2-3″ of snow outside. A section of the interstate…


  • Story Unlocked: Against Our Better Judgment

    I’m pleased to announce that my Instagram followers have just unlocked a new story! Against Our Better Judgment It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A vampire and a werewolf meet in a New Orleans graveyard to settle an old score. Then things go horribly wrong. When their scuffle is interrupted, the two are…


  • In Real Life, You Get No Warnings

    I hadn’t intended to do the #5amwritersclub this morning on Twitter. It’s my day to sleep in a little, and I planned to make use of it. Then I ended up waking up around 6:00 and crawled out of bed at 6:30, so it sort of happened anyway. I can’t complain, this book is moving…


  • Nothing Can Fix This

    Sometimes people let you down. Sometimes they disappoint you in the worst way possible. This is kind of part of life, but at the same time it’s something that can have enormous consequences. Dahlia is having to come to terms with what someone did, and she’s not handling it very well. She wrongly assumes that…