In the 13 (!) years I've volunteered at this elementary school, I've worked with 4 people who, in my opinion, should not have been allowed around the children. One of them was an incompetent teacher who left the district of her own volition after 1 year of misspelling common words, misidentifying common polygons, and utterly failing to maintain ( Read more... )

I just passive-aggressively attended a party. That's something I would do. And then I wanted to brag about it, but not in any forum anyone else there could possibly see ( Read more... )

Here's my biannual heartbreak.

As some of you know, I was persuaded to publish one of my books in the Kindle store, and, eventually, in a print edition. It was a lot more work than you'd expect, and of course ever since then, people have been pointing out typos to me, even though I edited that book 50 times. You cannot edit your own work. Because ( Read more... )

First of all, my book The Hermit is now available in paperback and I have just about made back the $100 I spent on an isbn. I know I paid too much, but there were reasons. It's a great book if you want to read about a kick ass female protagonist battling an otherworldly monster. You can buy it on Amazon:

$15 for paperback
$5 for ebookI made a ( Read more... )

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The harder I work, the harder the universe punches me in the face.

Without getting too deep into the details, I'm laughing my head off at this dumb bitch. She is so threatened by my friendship with her boyfriend (who I've known longer than she has) that she's basically forbid him from ever hanging out with me. The thing is, if she hadn't done that, we would have gone on just being sort of casual friends and not ( Read more... )

I exist. Yes.

This weekend I spend mostly at Tucson Comic-Con, which I attended for free, thanks to my handy dandy press pass, which I got for being awesome, and also because I'm a regular contributor to Panels.net. When I wasn't at Comic-Con, I was at a party or the All Souls' Procession. So I've been busy.


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I still read my f-list a couple times a month but it's 90% pictures of bugs, so...you know ( Read more... )