I have to admit I’ve never really been into zombies. I mean I’d watch zombie flicks but I never thought I’d be inspired to write about them. But my imagination loves to surprise me. I have an eclectic and historical group battling a zombie uprising in the past. How fun. How delightful. I never thought […]
Tag: imagination
No such thing as “normal”
Originally posted on days like crazy paving:
Let me tell you something about normality. Normal is a construct invented by the privileged to pathologise non-conformity. Normal is a reason to keep you out of a space because you’re too brown, too female, too queer, too trans, not binary enough, not able-bodied enough, not rich enough, not…
Smashwords Read an Ebook Week
The first two books in the Allison Dutch series and The Black Tree series are still free. Now every other book in each series is half off. “What a savings,” as the guy from Galaxy Quest once said. Anyway, it’s a good opportunity to catch up on each series so far. The last few Black […]
Character and Song #21: Queen Aeryn
The queen of all vampires. The first logmin vampire. A vindictive bitch. With long black hair, piercing brown eyes, and caramel skin linking her to ancient Egypt, Queen Aeryn has appetites bigger than Earth. A good bit of her character is based on the lover I lost to death a few weeks ago. One of […]
Integrated Living: Introduction
Humans tend to have this strange habit of walking around each day and chopping their life into bits. They chop others’ lives into bits, too, at any opportunity. We have this natural ability to categorize, organize, and analyze yet issues arise when this is applied improperly. When we try to measure other people or ourselves […]
Writing Saved My Life
My stories are…unique. They read like dreams and cover vastly divergent topics. Yet somehow, there are strong core threads that link many of them together, weaving one through another like twining branches on the tree of my artistic ability. The first series I ever wrote is called The Black Tree and it has become a […]
Real vs Familiar
American culture appears to be largely a culture of nostalgia. There is talk of idolized “good ole days”, a return to “traditional values”, and some warped desire to gain one’s childhood back. Yet the people that truly change the world, the ones who make a difference and are the most productive deal mostly […]
