I am in denial that it’s July already….

I’d very much like to pretend that it’s still June, but the fireworks going off in my neighborhood last night suggest that nope, we’re into July. After a few false starts and emotional walk-throughs, I’ve sent off the latest “Mom Files” essay to beta-readers, this one on the storytelling brain, liminal spaces, and filling in

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A Good Run, and a New Run, for the Cosa Nostradamus

Back in 2004, my very first original novel, Staying Dead, came out from the then-brand-new imprint Luna at Harlequin.  I was among the first of their authors – and one of their last.  My final book for them came out only a little while before Harlequin — including all of its backlist  — was sold

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As we used to say on Livejournal, 3 things makes a post.

Well, that was special. I just saw someone on Facebook, who probably thinks of themselves as a perfectly decent and good Christian,  dismiss all of Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, among others, as ‘just tribal laws.’ Honey, it’s ALL just ‘tribal laws.’ You’re just prioritizing your tribe over everyone else’s, and the name for that ain’t

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THE UNDERWATER BALLROOM SOCIETY is a Locus Award nominee!

While I’m sad that RED WATERS RISING didn’t make the final ballot for fantasy novel, my joy in TUBS, as we affectionately call it, making the final ballot for “best anthology” Locus Award has me doing a happy writer chair-dance. This wasn’t a traditional anthology – our editors didn’t ‘acquire’ us, no publisher made any

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