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Spanish Mission

The second Hope Blackwell book is now live! Hope Blackwell, the world’s second-worst psychic, is tired of dealing with both the living and the dead. Between wrangling the ghosts of the Founding Fathers, medical school, and dodging the paparazzi, she’s got her own problems (and that last attempt on her life left her more shakenContinueContinue reading “Spanish Mission”

State of the Comic, 2018

Next Monday, the comic enters the last chapter of the second story arc. This is bittersweet to me: there will be a third story arc to the comic, and all of the characters will still be there. But there will be another minor time skip, so while I’ll still be working with the same characters,ContinueContinue reading “State of the Comic, 2018”

Never-ending List of Things to Do, June 2018 Edition

This is one of those semi-regular “What am I working on oh that’s everything” post. Okay. Whee. Let’s organize some thoughts. The big news is that I’ve got an agent! I’ve signed with Diana Fox of Fox Literary. I’ve met her, she’s fabulous, she’s a sparkly disco ball made of tiny razors. I have aContinueContinue reading “Never-ending List of Things to Do, June 2018 Edition”

Tank Crash

I used to keep marine aquariums, and I freakin’ loved it. Not just fish, no…I kept two different live coral reefs in my own living room. The small one was soft-bodied corals, the larger one was stony polyps. There were fish, yes, little flame hawkfish and small reef-safe coral beauties, and clownfish I had hand-raisedContinueContinue reading “Tank Crash”

New Disasterhouse post

There’s a new post up at the home blog. It’s about signs, and bewaring. Here’s the link!

The Matter of a “Few Dollars”

So. Let’s talk about Patreon. I’ve been doing this for a while now. And by “this,” I mean scrambling across creative projects like a tapdancing spider, looking for The One that will resonate with enough people to make self-employment profitable. In late 2013-early 2014, two things happened which allowed me to make creative projects myContinueContinue reading “The Matter of a “Few Dollars””

ISSUES: Coping Strategies

This is a short story I did for Geeky Giving, a charity working to promote research in “Parkinson’s, ALS, traumatic brain injuries, brain tumors, Alzheimer’s and more.” They were kind enough to let me do an AGAHF short story for the charity anthology, so I did Jenny and Shawn: Jenny because she’s the researcher, ShawnContinueContinue reading “ISSUES: Coping Strategies”

How Dare You

To Congressman Budd, and Senators Burr and Tillis: This afternoon, I opened my inbox to see a brief message from my congressional representative, Ted Budd. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban late-term abortions after 20-weeks. As someone who is strongly pro-life,ContinueContinue reading “How Dare You”

Stoneskin

Sometimes a story gets into your head and refuses to leave. I can usually perform a minor exorcism in the form of a short story. I’ve got a bunch of these furious little demons sitting on my desktop, or making the submission rounds to genre magazines. Stoneskin was supposed to be one of these shortContinueContinue reading “Stoneskin”

Current Projects

I need to post an update about current projects, yes? Yes. Here’s the project update list, in order: Hope Blackwell #2 Josh Glassman #2 Rachel Peng #5 Hope Blackwell is about 60% done, with estimated Q4 delivery of Thanksgiving or sooner. You’ll have something snarky to read over the holidays. Josh Glassman has a coupleContinueContinue reading “Current Projects”