Step One: Write a story Step Two: Submit story Step Three: A Magical Transformation Occurs the Moment the Mailbox Closes Step Four: Get Hopes Up ie, 8 weeks of ridiculous statistical analysis. Step Five: Receive Results 99% of the time: 1% of the time: Step Six: Return to Read more…
My story “Jupiter Wrestlerama” is now available free on Lightspeed’s website. Brian and I went to Niagara Falls for the weekend in February of 2003. We walked around admiring icicles and got lost. We ended up in a residential area, with a long slog on un-cleared sidewalks to get back Read more…
To celebrate the life and work of d.a. levy, Cleveland poets will be reading this Saturday night at Lava Lounge in Tremont. Festivities start at 8pm with the incomparable Mary Turzillo. My slot is 9:40. There is an open mic following at 10pm. Drop on by, enjoy some food and Read more…
My short story, “Trash” is now available at Escape Pod. This story was born out of a prompt from my sister, Grace, who asked me to write something about a character she’d created for a D&D campaign. Obviously I changed Nanlee somewhat by putting her in a Science Fiction setting! Read more…
I’ll be at the Vending Machine: Poetry for Change event at Karma Cafe in Canton, Ohio, this Saturday, November 22, at 6pm. This charity event will have poetry readings and an anthology of poems which costs exactly one canned food donation per book. Proceeds will go to a local food Read more…
“The whole point is you’re making this beautiful, invisible vase.” –Kim Stanley Robinson at Clarion 2013. These words have stayed with me since I heard them last summer. The first draft of a story is rather like putting clay on the wheel. It’s… fast. You have this SHAPE now. You Read more…
When I was a wee elementary school girl, I would make “books” by stapling together folded typing paper. I would compose a story with illustrations to fit the number of pages provided. I vividly remember this one story I did. Lisa and the Fairy by Marie Vibbert, age 8* Once Read more…