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Here’s where I start, all over again.

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It’s been a long, long, long time since I’ve blogged. Been heavily preoccupied with a full-time contract, some major family health issues, and other sundry odds and ends. But here I am. Hi.

Recently, I was approached by a writer friend-and then asked similar questions by ( Read more... )

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This seems like it should be the time I’d be pushing out frequent updates to the three or four of you dedicated readers. Instead, I have temporarily deserted you and experienced the last whirlwind month without you in my front pocket. What a terrible, negligent virtual pal I ( Read more... )

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Of all the writers in the world that I would have liked to have known, Octavia E. Butler tops my list for a hundred different reasons.  I will be in attendance at the Carl Brandon party celebrating her deserved induction into the Hall of Fame. I hope you’ll join me and spread ( Read more... )

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I’m officially FUCT (like it? I just thought of it)-a freelance, urban, cat-owning thirty-something.*

Yes, going full-frontal freelance, instead of just dabbling as I have over the years (since the first dot-com boom left me gobsmackingly underemployed and staring down the ( Read more... )

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I’ve been staring into the abyss of draft one of the novel-and it’s been staring right back at me (thx, Nietzsche!). I’m losing the staring contest.

One of the most brutal truths of writing is: sometimes you have to throw away every word you’ve spent days/weeks/months ( Read more... )

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That prejudice is alive and well in America.

I’m a big girl. I am. I know I am. No one actually knows it more than I do. But there are reasons for my size, some of which I can’t help (thx, genetics!). I’ve been thinner, never thin-and to maintain chunky-thin nearly killed me ( Read more... )

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This all interestingly dovetails with my last post…on March 15 (really? I am that lazy a blogger, apparently).

During my stay at Hedgebrook (post on that TK, I swear), I had the pleasure of being in residence with a group of amazingly rad writers, most of whom were working in ( Read more... )

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Interesting.
Recently, one of my colleagues, the fabulous Douglas Lucas, asked on our class’ email list about our absolutely favorite novels/books of all time, ever.
I thought and thought and thought about it. There are so many books I love, but if I had to commit forever ( Read more... )

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Granted, he was not responsible for being named Paul Atreides, but here are the top five reasons I have begun to suspect that OUR boy* CAT MAY BE A GEEK:

1. He always has crumbs of food on his chin.
2. He’s not always very conscientious about his hair or hygiene.
3. He enjoys ( Read more... )