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Holiday Card recap, an Advent-ure Story Calendar, and a big donation! You guys rock.
I’m going to start this by telling you, my dear readers, what you did for me. And then I share what we did for others. Continue reading
Abe no Seimei and Seimei Jinja
I was in Kyōto. I was looking up something else on my phone and saw “Seimei Jinja” on the screen map, not too far from my ryokan. My metaphorical antennae immediately pricked, and I knew I had to make a detour. If you’ve read my Kitsune Tales stories, you might… Continue reading
Holiday Cards! 2023 Edition
🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….🎶 Well, not really. We still have Halloween and American Thanksgiving to go. But in terms of planning ahead… It’s time again! Every year, I offer to send Christmas cards to anyone who wants one. It’s been so much fun to send cards… Continue reading
Luggage Panic and Time Travel
Here’s a story with little take-home moral. :) Tuesday morning, I woke up in Tōkyō. I got up early after four hours of sleep and caught a shinkansen (often called a “bullet train” in the USA). Three days before, I’d stayed at a hotel and sent on a suitcase full… Continue reading
Best Short Story!
Just a quick update! I’ve just returned from the RealmMakers conference and awards banquet. Of the five short story finalists, two were mine! They were “Neon Green in D Minor,” a cyberpunk retelling of the Pied Piper fairy tale, and “Love My Neighbor,” a contemporary fantasy. And “Love My Neighbor”… Continue reading
That time I got stuck in England…
So you might remember we had a global pandemic which affected a lot of travel plans. One of those plans was a family transatlantic cruise from Southampton to New York–or, as my mother repeatedly described it, “the Titanic route.” That trip was eventually rescheduled for April of 2023, and so… Continue reading
Review: Les Misérables (with a Z)
I wrote this a couple of weeks ago on a plane en route to ClickerExpo, but I forgot to finish and post it live. Here we go! I had the opportunity to see the new tour of Les Misérables this week, and I’m still trying to decide how I feel… Continue reading
D-Dames is here! D-Dames are here? The book of D-Dames is here!
Plural titles can be tricky, because the correct phrasing will sound wrong if the listener doesn’t know it’s a title. But, to the point, a new book is out! D-Dames is a collection of short stories about women with elemental magic in World War 2. These stories were written originally… Continue reading
Typo Bounty Program!
I self-publish, and I publish traditionally. My work may be read by one editor or a half dozen. I’ve read it myself 5 or 25 times before it goes to press. And still somehow a typo can occasionally slip through. It doesn’t happen a lot; I work hard to put… Continue reading
Authors & Publishers, check your machine learning licenses
Check your machine learning licenses. Even if you didn’t know you had granted one. Especially if you didn’t know you had granted one. I have just been alerted by my narrator to a clause tucked into my Findaway Voices distribution agreement. It was the last bit of attached Schedule D,… Continue reading
