I find May to be a rather confused month. It never knows what it wants to do with the weather. One day, it storms about with thunder and ten-minute showers and the golden glow of raincloud-filtered sunbeams, and the next, it sweeps clean the clouds with chilly winds to show a sunnier disposition. I’ve scraped…
KMBM: Magnets!
Refrigerator magnets are ubiquitous things. You can’t escape a gift shop without grabbing a magnet or two to mark your travels. They can also help turn your fridge into an art gallery and appointment minder. I tend to be anti-clutter and a minor control freak but also pragmatic (it IS a convenient place to put…
Top 3 Tips for How To Give, Ask for, and Take Critiques
I’ve been an active member of my local writing critique group since March 2014. They helped restart my writing engine after I’d stored it away for too many years. They encouraged me to keep working on projects I thought should be shelved. They highlighted places in my work where I’ve been sloppy and suggested ways…
ROYAL: Episode 8 Now Online + Schedule Updates!
[Edit 6/28/19: This series is being reworked for special distribution and is no longer available online. Please follow my site for more information in the coming months!] Dear ROYAL Readers, Episode Eight: A Justification for the Hate of Amelia Layne is now online! If you haven’t yet started the series, then don’t cheat—start HERE. Each…
Love, Death, and Ranking Robots
Love, Death and Robots is a limited animated series released on Netflix in April 2019. Taken as a whole, I give the series the thumbs up, but like most anthologies, it delivers a mixed quality of stories, artistic styles, and entertainment value. Some of the episodes were compelling and visually arresting while others I watched…
Monthly Mental Munchies: April 2019
April is an in-between month. The Thursday of months, if you will. Not quite spring but definitely no longer winter. It’s also traditionally wet, blustery, and overcast. I find that as I grow older, I have less resilience to drab, cloudy days. I grow gloomier the more clouds pile up in the sky. This has…
KMBM: Journals!
It’s time for “Know Me By My,” Journals edition! Look closely. What do you see? An odd and mundane assortment of journals? Maybe less than what you might see if you opened them up and peeked inside, but you can gather a fair bit of knowledge from the covers. And besides, half of them are…
Frenemy of Technology
We’ve all done it. Shaken our fist at our computers when they crash and obliterate a document in which we’d invested an hour without saving. Or, gnashed our teeth when we can’t get a signal on our smart phone to look up the answer to the yogurt shop’s trivia question of the day. And who…
Book Launch Blast!
This past Saturday marked a momentous occasion in my journey to become a full-fledged author: my first official book launch and signing! Cat and Mouse Press hosted a launch party for their latest anthology, Beach Pulp (which includes my revenge horror story, “A Million Tiny Bites,”) and it was an absolute blast. Beach Pulp is…
Beach Pulp Book Launch and Signing
I’m excited to announce that my short story, “A Million Tiny Bites,” is part of Beach Pulp, an anthology from Cat and Mouse Press filled with “fun, campy beach reads” set in beach towns along the DelMarVa coast: Whether you’re a fan of Nancy Drew or Doctor Strange, The Twilight Zone or Dark Shadows, you’ll…
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