Apr
5

Word-Whore Thursday: What Makes Me Laugh

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I’m over at Word Whores today for my usual Thursday post. Today it’s all about the websites I go to find my jollies – and the usual suspects are there, Tumblr among them. Still thinking more seriously about shutting this site down and blogging from one place, but I’m trying to determine a graceful way of doing that – e.g., do I attempt to import this blog into that one or just keep this one around as an archive? Eh. Pros and cons either way, I guess.   Might create a test site this weekend and see how a blogger import into wordpress goes – if it gets too complicated, this might answer itself.… Read more
Apr
4

Womanthology: Space

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Say what you will about my comments on wanting to write a retelling of The Little Mermaid with pansexual robots – but that particular tagline just nabbed me a spot in IDW’s upcoming Womanthology: Space #5 (5 issues with 3 stories each – I’m so freaking flattered and excited I was chosen.) And by nabbed, I meant the artist who picked me was intrigued by the concept. The artist in question is the super talented Chrissie Zullo, btw. Does that mean we’re writing it? I don’t know yet. The overall theme is Space, and Issue #5 has a sub-theme of Comet, so somewhere along the way, the story has to have *something* to do with a comet. So we shall see. But on a more serious note, I have been following along with the Womanthology concept for quite a while – I was a Kickstarter backer the moment I heard about… Read more
Apr
3

Combine and Condense

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It occurs to me from time to time that I may be spreading myself a tad too thin. Not even counting the usual writing stuff – the day job, the kids, whatever. But from a social networking standpoint, I’m beginning to suspect it’s time for a reworking of sorts. I blog on my unofficial blog pretty much every day (except Sundays.) And I have my official author blog here too, but I only blog once in a while (and x-blog at the other one at the same time – usually authorly type things. You know. As opposed to unicorns humping dolphins.) But I also blog once a week at Word Whores. And once a month at The League of Reluctant Adults. And I have my tumblr (which I update pretty much all the time because it’s easy.) And then I have my Sad Sausage Dogs tumblr. And website/blog – which… Read more
Apr
2

Tell Me

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Just a little shout out today to my friend Marcus Wolf and congrats on the release of his latest album, Tell Me. If you follow this blog at all, you’ll remember that Marcus is David Garrett’s guitar player, but he’s also a fab solo artist, so definitely go check it out on his website.  He’s got a solo tour coming up in Germany too, so if you get the chance to see him, you really should. (I’m going to plug myself here for a moment because I redesigned the site over the weekend.) Throwing in the flash app here for a quick preview as well.… Read more
Mar
30

The Stupid. It Burns.

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I don’t even know if this post is going to have much of point, so I think I’m just going to ramble on the things that have hit me up this week. First off is the article over at the Times about how adults shouldn’t read YA books. Because they don’t challenge us enough. It embarrasses the author of the piece to think that “grown-ups” would dare to lower themselves to kiddie stuff. Fair enough. Opinions are opinions and you know, everyone has one. Literary snobs pick on genre books.  Sci-Fi writers pick on romance writers. Romance writers pick on erotica writers.  Whatever. I can’t really find it in myself to get worked up about it anymore because the arguments are worthless. Are we really going to start slut-shaming ourselves into reading what is considered proper? Intelligent? Worth-while? Who decides this sort of thing, anyway? After all – today’s literary boobies were… Read more