• End of November progress report

    November was a month of ups and downs for me. Like I mentioned in my last post, it’s always a hectic month with my birthday and the holidays, and this year I knew it was going to be even more crazy because I was having a friend come and stay with me for several days right before Thanksgiving. What I didn’t bargain for was an unexpected stress: my oldest dog becoming…

  • FiYoCrapMo Year 2: Finishing more crap

    Last year I posted about why I don’t usually participate in NaNoWriMo, simply because I can’t keep up with that sort of pace without completely burning out (and, since my health problems started, making myself so sick I can’t function for the rest of the month). What I did last year, though, was follow this advice and treat November as FiYoCrapMo—short for “Finish Your Crap Month.” In looking back at my…

  • FOURTH WORLD cover reveal!

    As promised, there’s big news about Fourth World today: the cover and the release date! Thanks so much to The YA Book Traveler for doing the cover reveal for me! IAMOS, S.C.D. 8378 Nadin’s planet is dying. As its atmosphere drains away, her people are forced to live huddled in domed cities for protection. With only enough resources to support the population for one more year, time is running out.…

  • Welcome to the new site!

    Hey everybody! If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice that things are looking a bit different. I was tired of the old look, so I decided to give the site a makeover and switch to WordPress while I was at it—if only because it lets me do snazzy things like that slideshow on the first page! It also lets me incorporate my blog into the website, so over the next…