Leave the dragons alone
So here’s a couple of random facts about me. Where my deeply mourned and well-beloved husband was someone whose sympathies veered towards humans of any
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The Empty Bucket
So a moment ago I was in the middle of the maelstrom, the eye of the storm. I had a novel I was working on,
I Am Alma Alexander’s Muse
I am not here to apologise. Hey, guys, have you MET me? I am not wafting about with a lyre wearing diaphanous robes that float
Under Siege: The Telephone Demons
LOOK. Let me preamble this post with two salient facts about myself. One, I am *not a morning person*. My late husband was, with a
What they took
Circling back to what is, for us creatives, one of THE most bloodcurdling and horrifying stories of our times. AI. Some or even all of
on process: in the literary salt mines
Some of you may know that I had a loooong fallow period, creative fields sown with the salt of grief and left to go to
once upon a wall…
Setting your scene. I live in the great Pacific Northwe(s)t, and that last bit, wihout the “s”, has been particularly and catastrophically true recently (see
January Read 2026
…and Happy New Year, again. So, that time of the year again – my, time flies. For those who haven’t encountered the “January Read” thing
A couple of cat tails… er, tales…
1. December 11 was the day, three years ago this year, that the White Lady, my Maine Coon queen, came to me. Skittish and unsure
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
I walked out of the theatre seeing the movie less than an hour ago, as of the writing of this response. Before I tell
AI AI oh…
My AI manifesto (from a longer post published on my Patreon): 1) It is not the idea. It is the execution. The last “original” story
The Fundamental Questions of Reading
This piece appeared on my Patreon as a “public” post a few weeks ago. I share it here. If you like the idea of more
the long and the short of it
so, over in bluesky… something. this guy trots in and gleefuly perpetuates a quiet old canard – that you practice by writing short stories and