So, it’s Pride Month. Back when I was in college we didn’t get a whole month, we only got Pride Week. And that was at a super liberal place. Some schools back then didn’t even get a single Pride day! Which was why queer student activists would band together at conferences, like the one that…
Above is a photo of the best prize I ever won in a writing contest. Cool, eh? This is a planet. It’s a planet by glass artist Josh Simpson. He was the Artist Guest of Honor at the Arisia science fiction convention in 2011, and one of the displays was of a megaplanet he had…
It’s been a while since I wrote down a recipe, and I’m writing this one down so I’ll remember how to do it, and what I did. I read Annalee Newitz’s AUTOMATIC NOODLE (Bookshop | Amazon) while I was in Seattle at the end of last summer, and as it happens there are some great…
Coming up at the end of this month, I’ll be teaching an online class that should be lots of fun: BDSM for Romance Writers. As the official description reads: “BDSM is more than just a collection of toys or a list of kinks, it’s a whole world of intense relationship dynamics. In this workshop, RT…
Welcome to another monthly newsletter post, which I’m mirroring here because not everyone is either signed up to my email newsletter list or my Patreon. Thinky Thoughts: Academics Turn Me On I’m such a nerd. I just finished taking a 10-week long college class about Romance and it was great. It all started when I…
Feeling very knife-y today. Not stabby, exactly, but man, the news has just been unrelenting war, death, and aggression lately, and although things have been relatively calm where I live (compared to Minneapolis, Portland, or Chicago) I can’t help but feel like we’re next. I had an Uber driver a couple of weeks ago —…
Whew. Another Duck Day done and dusted. I just took my wedding ring off and discovered a leaf of thyme has been hiding under it since some time during the cooking yesterday…? If you’re new here, “Duck Day” is what corwin calls Thanksgiving, because he always liked duck better than turkey, and when he got…
In honor of my publisher putting a new cover on my baseball romance and moving it into Kindle Unlimited for a while, I figured I would publish a sample chapter for you all to enjoy. Here is Chapter Four of THE HOT STREAK! Casey works at a design bureau in Boston, and finds herself somewhat…
I’m still riding the creative high and queer community solidarity feeling that came from reading at Writers With Drinks in Seattle. Charlie Jane Anders was an incandescent host, Charlie’s Queer Books put so many books into people’s hands, all the readers were fire! The story I read from, “Large Emotional Models,” is now live on…
There is not just one Worldcon. In Seattle this year, there were 5500 registered attendees plus another 2000 or so bought single-day memberships, meaning there were ~7500 different Worldcons this year. Worldcon is many things to many people, but the one thing it always is, is an intentional community. It’s an event that happens because…
