Good afternoon, squiders, I am writing to you on my laptop, which has been wiped and re-populated (and, while I have not yet re-opened House Flipper to see the state of things, it does say it’s up to date in
In My Pinterest Era
July books: 3/6 (Native Star, The Owls’ House, and A Posse of Princesses) Hey, squiders, sorry! Didn’t mean to disappear for two weeks! I wish I could say that I have gotten SO much done in that time, but I
A Month of Morning Pages
June Books: 7/9 (Haunting Ecologies) Alas, but hey, much better than being nine books behind! We’ll set a goal of six books for July and see how we do. So, if you guys remember a month ago, I came home
More Broken Mirrors, and Other Musings
Howdy, squiders, did you miss me? I wasn’t gone, I’ve just been sitting on this post for two days. Oh, yeah. June books: 6/9 (The Poison Season and The Productivity Project) Can we read three books in the next three
Delving In
Evening, squiders. Last week, with your lovely help (it’s amazing what I can work through as I write things out here on the blog), I decided to leave off the World’s Edge revision until the critique marathon is over and
Floundering
Books Read for June: 2/9 (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 and Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old) (Still in the middle of 3 books, and doing that thing where I’m reading a little bit of
Morning Pages Four Days In (Also Submission is a Drag and Comparison is the Theft of Joy)
Afternoon, squiders. I have written in all sorts of new places this week. (Well, done writing-adjacent things. Submitted queries. Wrote this and Tuesday’s blog posts. Did my critiques for the marathon. No actual writing.) Right now I am at a
Writing Retreat Aftermath, Revision Thoughts, and Morning Pages
Happy Tuesday, squiders! I can’t believe it’s already June. Holy crapola. (Also, I did my book tracker for the month this morning, and I need to read nine books this month to be on track, so that’s a problem.) (I
Writing Retreat Ahoy
(Nautical joke, to go with World’s Edge’s setting.) Well, squiders, I’m off to my writing retreat tomorrow. I am mostly excited–I got a ton done last year, and it was relaxing, and I did yoga and walked the labyrinth and
The Same But Different
Hi squiders! Happy Friday! School is out, so I hope everyone is up for two months of chaos. My youngest asked if she could give her teacher (the one who had me in for the outlining talk) a copy of



