Celebrating 2017 — With Loot

list of handwritten creative ideas
I need a bigger fire for all my  irons.

We need to step back sometimes to be able to see the bigger picture.

I had been a little down on myself for not publishing as much as I’d wanted and being behind on my idea list. I have a beefy project list that feels like I’ll never catch up. (I wrote it out as an Idea Debt Inventory for a productivity lesson. Lemme tell ya, that’s simultaneously inspiring — look how much I can create! — and super-depressing.)

But then I started doing the math for this year, and wow, I’ve had a more productive year than I thought. No wonder I felt busy.

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Cry HAVOK and Let Slip the Dinos of War

HAVOK April 2017Check out the newest issue of HAVOK! It includes my flash fiction about a woman traveling with her service Velociraptor, and a lot more dino-themed stories. Seriously, that cover.

(Okay, I know pterosaurs aren’t strictly dinosaurs, but are you going to argue with that cover? I didn’t think so.) Continue reading

D is for Dinosaur Cover Reveal

water in cup ripples with footstep impactOkay, if you’ve followed me a while, you might have noticed I have a bit of a thing about dinosaurs. I took paleozoology in school. I have Cupcake the Dinosaur living in my home. I feed my dinosaurs chocolate.

And so I was delighted to be included in Rhonda Parrish’s latest Alphabet Anthology, D is for Dinosaur.

Today, the cover is revealed!

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