Gossamer Obsessions

It’s been a week, I know. More than a week, actually. I saw Enchanted on Friday last and am only now posting to tell you about it. Your bra...

Dear readers, Yes, I know it's been a while. A long while. I've had a lot of work, but as of today it's start to slack off. I st...

FINALLY - after MANY rejections, my poor battered tale "Parasite: A Love Story" has been accepted by fait accomplit magazine (the...

I'M IN! I'M IN! I'M IN! I'M IN! I've been accepted into the Vancouver Film School's 2009 Writing for Film, TV & ...

Despite resurging waves of self-doubt, debilitating insecurity and just plain ol' terror, I finally applied yesterday to the Vancouver F...

...to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show . I may not have time to write anything creative this semester, but it doesn't ...

Okay, Comparative Literature Class today is boring, so I thought I'd take the time to write an entry in my much-neglected blog. I've...

I got a form rejection from Realms of Fantasy for "House Hunting" and a rejection from Heliotrope for "Whiff." I haven...

As you've probably noticed, I've taken down my "Reading" and "To Be Read" lists. It seems only natural, as I...

Which means heavy, heavy reading for me! Not only am I having to power through Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1500+ pages!), but about ...

Keep writing. That's always been everybody's motto on how to be a writer - keep writing . Sometimes, though, it's been hard. Rea...

To Realms of Fantasy magazine. I actually did it with real paper and envelopes and International Reply Coupons - it's weird, because I...

I've found something out recently - because I haven't been home much to do my writing on my laptop, I've been resorting to the o...

Sorry I haven't been blogging lately - I had to work a thirty-hour week in the space of three days, so I've had precious little time...

The Chick: Anna Wren, a mousy widow who hires herself out as a secretary to keep herself, her kindly mother-in-law, and her maid in stock...

The Chick: Nina Askew, a woman new to her 40s who buys an ugly, smelly dog to emotionally recover from her recent divorce. Shady Pas...

The Chick : Lady Jillian Daventry, the curvy, ebony-haired, scandal-courting eldest daughter of a Marquis. Of course, her scandals have...

Huzzah! Today is a fabulous day! A week ago, I entered a contest over at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels , a contest in which one has t...

Yup, I was getting tired of the same old grey and pink - so I switched it around. I've also got a new book on my "To Be Read" ...

...to Heliotrope Magazine. The guidelines say I should wait at least a week after being rejected before submitting something else - since t...