This month I realized I’ve been editing and reading slush for about a year now. I started volunteering at a speculative magazine I love partly to give back but mainly to grow as a writer. And as I come up on my first anniversary in the position, I’ve started to […]
This month feels like such an embarrassment of riches. I’m so proud to announce that I’ve had two stories published in two amazing SFF publications: My weird fantasy “The Wilding Year” is out now in Strange Horizons. It’s about parenthood and anxiety … and teenagers transforming into strange creepy animals. […]
Most writing advice focuses on the “creative” side of storytelling – coming up with quirky characters, building strange new worlds, devising problems for your heroes to solve. But I also find something so satisfying about the editing process, which generally gets less love. Sometimes it’s the “aha” moment when you […]
January is the time of year when I’m most in need of a little encouragement and inspiration. It’s also when I try to purge and organize my house. While paring down my too-crowded library, I recently realized just how many books of writing advice I’d amassed (Don’t ask; Marie Kondo […]
I have a confession to make. I used to hate horror. Or, at least, I thought I did. Then three things changed my perspective. First, I realized I was unfairly judging a broad and varied literary tradition by a specific type of movie I hate, the splatter film.* Second, I […]
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