Uncategorized

My Mom Ate My Homework by De Kenyon Available at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon.com, and more. Aya’s mom just told her to pick up her stuff for the 1,001th time…she was almost going to pick it up for reals, but then her mom gets turned into a cleanicidal vacuum cyborg. And now Aya’s almost late for school… Aya held […]

I went into a big long stinkin’ deal about how and why I wrote this story over at my blog, if you’re interested.  But it’s mostly writer stuff, so don’t read it if you don’t want the writer stuff. But now, presenting… My Mom Ate My Homework by De Kenyon Available at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon.com, and more. This

Okay, if you just want the cover and blurb, scroll down till you see the cover.  There aren’t any spoilers in the following (other than a very rough clue about the kind of ending it has), and it’s all talk about how and why I put the story together the way I did. — This

I have a new story up, under another pen name.  I hadn’t planned to whip this name out until I got YOUR SOUFFLE MUST DIE out, but it really is that same sensibility.  Sam from YSMD is shinier…but just as violent, underneath it all. So: People Juice by Diane R. Thompson  (available at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon, and more) If there’s one thing that

I dream of getting back into a routine…but it just ain’t happening right now.  I’m going through an awesome if somewhat disruptive learning process right now, complete with attendant mood swings (“I can’t write worth a damn!” “This is so much more awesome than anything I’ve written before!” etc.), and I’m not sure which way

I have a new article up at Indie Author News: There’s a lot of good advice I didn’t take because I didn’t understand it at the time. Granted, taking advice before I’m ready for it isn’t smart–like taking the training wheels off my bike before I have a sense of balance. But now I have those

I have a new article up at Indie Author News: There’s a lot of good advice I didn’t take because I didn’t understand it at the time. Granted, taking advice before I’m ready for it isn’t smart–like taking the training wheels off my bike before I have a sense of balance. But now I have

RT @PandragonDan How to write and awesome prologue – and awesome guest blog by Denna Kipling http://t.co/yWOvL7Lk #GuestBlog 'WritingTips # Feeling negative about your writing? http://t.co/O3Jkgwua # Powered by Twitter Tools

I just got back from the Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference, and boy, is my brain tired.  But I had to write this down…I was talking to Chris Mandeville about feeling like a failure as a writer at one point during the conference.  I said something like, “And then I realized I was feeling extremely negative,