I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but I’m a sucker for writing advice this time of year. So, here is a little inspiration for anyone else who’s feeling a little anxious about everything that didn’t get done in 2019. Here’s to a new decade and new adventures! […]
What better way to wrap up 2019 than to review some of the speculative fiction/ sci-fi/ fantasy books I read this year? I’d recommend any of these as a gift. Circe by Madeline Miller Recommended for: Everyone, especially feminists. The writing is this book is gor-ge-ous. Since you’ve probably […]
The most common response I get when people learn I write fiction is, “Cool, what kind?” But when I respond “speculative fiction,” I usually get a blank stare. I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know the term because I think a lot of readers already love speculative fiction […]
I may have mentioned before that I did a teeny-weeny little bit of research for my novel-in-progress, Last of Kin. Set in a remote, New Guinea rainforest, it features two strong female protagonists — an ambitious paleontologist and a living descendent of the otherwise extinct hominid species homo floresiensis. Actually, […]
They say, “Write what you know.” So naturally, I decided to set my first novel on a remote Pacific island I’d never been to, in a mountainous rainforest few people have ever explored, and filled it with characters based on the extinct hominid species homo floresiensis, of which we have […]
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