• Friday Update 7/26/24

    Friday Update 7/26/24

    AAHHHH Taking a break last week was incredible. I worked hard to get there and the break came at just the right time. I spent the week reading and playing video games, generally, some youtube of other people playing video games. It was great to refill the well. I def drained it pretty dry working…

  • Friday Update

    Friday Update

    Still swimming! The deadlines keep coming and they don’t stop coming. This week I wrote a fantasy regency short story. I happen to have a novella series set during the golden age of sail which Also happens to fall during the regency era AND CONVENIENTLY it’s a fantasy world full of ghosts and witches and…

  • 2/23/24 Friday Update

    2/23/24 Friday Update

    This week I tried something new and had to spend a day recovering. I’m trying to do more of my writing through dictation. I want to reduce the amount of hours I spend typing, but also see if I can use it to speed up my writing process. It’s a thing that takes time, however,…

  • 2/16/24 Friday Update

    This week I got back on the normal schedule. That involved a couple of days off after the conference in Colorado, followed by slowly ramping back up into new words on Fated to the Wolf. I’ve been practicing dictating the story while I go for walks in the neighborhood, both to get more steps in…

  • A Brand New Day – A Scifi/Horror Short Story

    This short story isr releasing indie on March 5th, but is available here for Members to read early. Monica doesn’t remember yesterday or last week or even last year. She wakes up every morning in the company of 19 other women all without memories. And every day, Monica grows more certain that there are secrets…

  • Maj And The Outlaws #2 The Trinordia Dragon

    Maj And The Outlaws #2 The Trinordia Dragon

    This short story was originally written for the scifi magazine Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue #21 [swpm_protected] Maj And The Outlaws #2 The Trinordia Dragon Maj Frost lay in a makeshift hammock they’d strung together from a sheet and some twine and lashed to the front porch of a man they’d killed a week ago. The…

  • Goals Tracking: Week 5

    Goals Tracking: Week 5

    Goals tracking! There are three major goals I’m tracking this year for both personal and business improvement. Comment below with your goals and how you did this week. 1k words/workday: Monday: 2.5k – Re-plotted FatedTuesday: 1300Wednesday: 0 – Appointment DayThursday: 1056Friday: Notes: This week had some upheaval on Wednesday. I had a 3 hour hair…

  • Friday Update 2/2/24

    Friday Update 2/2/24

    Friday Update 2/2/24 In an unusual move, this week I decided the big plan I had for Fated to the Wolf needed to be cut down to something more compact. It’s a story meant to go in an anthology with a collection of other shifter authors and the target length is 20k. While they would…

  • To Heaven And Back Again – A Steampunk Short Story

    To Heaven And Back Again – A Steampunk Short Story

    This short story was originally published in Galaxy’s Edge magazine. It’s releasing indie on February 5th, but is available here for Members to read early. Meleny is a Lady of the Queen’s Court and that makes everyone frustrated, but Meleny is the most proud of how well she can piss off the captain of the…

  • Goals: Week 4

    Goals: Week 4

    Goals tracking! There are three major goals I’m tracking this year for both personal and business improvement. Comment below with your goals and how you did this week. 1k words/workday: Monday: 1000Tuesday: 1374Wednesday: 400Thursday: Put Hellhounds through PWA, +~400 wordsFriday: Break Notes: I finished a short story this week! That’s Princess Hellhound, To You was…