Monthly Archives: March 2016

(personal/writing) Working through the grief

  The picture above is 4 generations of my family, taken four years ago (I believe). Since then, my grandmother (on the left) passed away two months before her 99th birthday, and just this past Tuesday, my mother passed away, barely 2 months past her 65th birthday.   I won’t lie – it’s been a …

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(writing) I need to write Sapph

Damn, I need to write more ghost stories. Really.   In my spare time.

(writing/health) Depression, and the continuing struggle

I was going through my pictures the other day, and realized just how dark this one is. This is my street, during a snowstorm a few years ago. And it got me to thinking about how dark days, dark winters, really, really affect me. And my writing.   I don’t think that it’s a coincidence …

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(writing) Thinking about cons and giveaways

Conventions, not con games, that is. I’m getting things ready for rolling out Winter Secrets at Balticon and ConCarolinas this year, and so I’m thinking about these kind of things, which to be honest, are both fun and annoying to me as a writer.   Fun, because ooh, what can I give away to get …

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