Hello! I’ve recently moved, and I’ve been thinking a lot in the process. The hardest thing has been leaving the people I love, despite how excited I am for new adventures and experiences. This poem was inspired by those feelings. You’re a gaping hole a missing part the most precious part of me You’re my …
Hello, my fair readers! Welcome to today’s reflection on storytelling as a writer and audience member. I am going to try to stick to the usual educational tone of these posts. Honestly, though? This is a subject that’s been increasingly angering me recently. Fair warning that we may devolve into rant mode at some points. …
On June 26th, Timely, the newest Phoenix Fiction Writers anthology, came out! THE TIME HAS COME TO CHOOSE… Choose to stay enslaved in the belly of a submarine because it is all you’ve known, or risk the open door to freedom. Choose to carry out the mission you were created for, or go against your …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Phoenix Fiction Writers Anthology season! Today I reveal my 2021 anthology entry.
I have the joy of being the Art Coordinator for the Phoenix Fiction Writers (PFW), a collective of 11 indie authors of science fiction and fantasy. I talk about them a lot, but they are such incredible writers and humans. I’m thankful to call them both friends and colleagues. We’re celebrating our third year as …
Tolkien’s inefficient writing style was radically countercultural in a that built his themes of hope and the value of life.
I fell in love with Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery, as a girl. There are many stories I loved when I was young that have lost some of their charm in adulthood, but this series is not one of them. The older I get, the more I appreciate Anne Shirley and the …
Look at your hands skilled to sew, cook, build, weed, clean strong to do what needs to be done, to fix the broken gentle enough for a baby to hold. Look at your eyes which wrinkle in sheer delight which burn with fury at injustice which glisten with proof of your gentle heart which widen …
The 2020 Phoenix Fiction Writers’ anthology is coming up! Find out about my entry in it.
I didn’t finish reading “Dune.” Here’s why and what I learned about writing.