Happy December
I promised to blog daily and have realized that ain’t gonna happen. So now I’m scaling back to once a week. What’s up? I am rolling up paintings to take to spain and for a secret project here in the…
I promised to blog daily and have realized that ain’t gonna happen. So now I’m scaling back to once a week. What’s up? I am rolling up paintings to take to spain and for a secret project here in the…
Hi! Happy holidays to everyone, whatever holidays you celebrate – or even if you don’t celebrate any holidays at -all celebrate life! Great advice from me ! Also, great advice for me. I’m like Alice in wonderland -Alice often gave…
Next year I have a novel, Gods & Monsters, being serialized, illustrated and narrated in segments by me, E.E. King “The Miwok and Ohlone who inhabited California thought that the redwoods housed evil spirits,” a voice in the wind says. “They wouldn’t…
I had a crazy trip to LA which involved losing a tooth (very careless I know.) and two auto accidents. On the way down I was rear ended- and on the way up I spun out on black ice and…
I was one of two Winners of the Art Contest: “Expressions of Gender Equity and Feminism”, organized by the Community Art Channel. Because of this they awarded me a solo (online) show, both as a youtube and on google! They…
@Addison, Campbell, Flores, Goyan, King & Wong. I have a poetry group of 5 women- now 6–(we just inducted Tara Campbell into our sect- and a very fine addition she is) I give a prompt and they send me lines…
HEAR YE, HEAR YE Submissions to the 2024 Washington DC Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award are now open! They’ll close on March 31, 2024 at 11:59pm. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses…
This is around the corner from my new apartment. I LOVE IT, even though we have no furniture or lights. I am seriously Jet lagged but happy -AND – I LUCID DREAMED last night- or rather today -it’s 11:00 pm…
Today began the serialization of my novel Gods & Monsters. The Absolutely amazing Maria Korolov who spearheads MetaStellar Magazine made it happen, with masterful editing from Sophie Gorjance Each week for almost a year we will release a section and also…
It Takes A Village The Book will officially be available for pre-order on December 21ST! The book was firmly, gently, and brilliantly edited by Sophie Gorjance. With her guidance and recommendations, the book grew and improved. Mitchelle Lumumba is also…
I am writing this In a Costa Rican jungle where monkeys, scarlet macaws, and toucans are more plentiful than Internet signals. This post will be a mix of travel blog and book news. I will tell you about one…
Oh, it’s been too long! Too long since I wrote about all the fabulous anthologies and onlines I’ve been fortunate enough to have been in! One of the best parts of being a writer is receiving and reading all these…
My story The Ham & Cheddar Coast is in The Hamthology! The Hamthology is a Hamcentric anthology – I’m a vegetarian, and I originally wrote the tale as The Cheddar Coast for Sally Short’s fabulous New Short Fiction series…
I am so thrilled to be in this fabulous anthology with, among others, Mike Resnick ( the man’s been nominated for 37 Hugo Awards—a record for writers—and won five times!) and one of my heroines, Jane Yolen. I’ve been a fan…
Big news! Pandora’s Card Game will soon be available on audio. It’s read by the fabulous voice artist and actress Genevieve Sibayan Blood Prism, read by the inestimable Emily Emerson already is. So is Electric Detective, read by the very noir Christopher…
He feels protected in the redwoods’ shadow. They are love without argument, relationship without compromise. They climb up toward heaven reaching the stars, straight and unafraid. Under their boughs, he is part of the earth. He likes the constant evening, feeling most comfortable at the vespertine hour when dawn kisses night.
The 2018 Mystery Writers Whodunit Award is to be presented at the 5th Annual Mystery Fest Key West, a gathering of world-class mystery writers and fans set for June 22-24 in Key West, Florida. “Why just the first three pages?…
I invested with Kindra after my mother died. She set me up in an annuity that lost me a lot of money. It gave me a tiny monthly income but would lose me the money that the annuity cost. I…
Blood Prism Is coming out soon on audible- I love the reading by Emily Emerson. It’s so nice to fall in love with a book I wrote – Thank you, Emily!!! Someone reading blood prism From Blood Prism: “Let’s get…
The Truth of Fiction Now available in audio. Narrated by the marvelous Miranda Reading-Spring Do us all a favor and get a copy! This is Heckel, not Miranda Reading-Spring, She has a MUCH BETTER voice. This Miranda. This is Dexter, too tired to keep editing. …