December 2025 Book 3 Coming Soon, Book Recs from 30 SFF Authors, Smashwords Sale, and Holiday Baby Bats Final Book in The Perilous Gods Set Coming Soon This year has been one long, wild ride with the Perilous Gods trilogy moving through the various publishing stages while I juggled my copyediting freelance work, promotion, life in general, and a separate multi-book publishing contract at the same time. (Can't have too much of a good thing, right?? ... but it can make for many months in a row...
30 days ago • 5 min read
An occasional newsletter from a writer of weird things...Musings on writing, reading, and various piffle, but always a cute animal video. Wow -- this month is jam-packed -- both this newsletter and my writing schedule, which is completely outta control right now. News for this month: Book two of The Perilous Gods, When the Winds Sing, releases today and you're in on the celebration!! I avoided the words "giveaway" and "free" in the subject line so emails wouldn't bounce, but YES a FREE ebook...
2 months ago • 6 min read
An occasional newsletter from a writer of weird things...Musings on writing, reading, and various piffle, but always a cute animal video. Cool (or creepy) Crescent City Stuff, Free Ch 1, Cute Animal Video Oct 21, 2025 Speculations Newsletter If there are a few typos here or less polished writing, well, things are wild right now. Book one is out and still getting interviews, book two releases in less than a month, book three edits are due back to the editor (sounds better than saying overdue,...
3 months ago • 17 min read
An occasional newsletter from a writer of weird things...Musings on writing, reading, and various piffle, but always a cute animal video. Look who's featured on John Scalzi's Blog! Plus Book 1 Is Live! plus some free SFF and fat bears Sept 25, 2025 While the Gods Sleep: The Perilous Gods, Book One released yesterday!! 🥳 Wow. Well the big day finally arrived. While the Gods Sleep has been released into the world. Here are some of the recent reviews that have been coming in: Dark, intense, and...
4 months ago • 3 min read
An occasional newsletter from a writer of weird things...Musings on writing, reading, and various piffle, but always a cute animal video. Three Weeks and Counting: Plus Reading a Novel by Keanu Reeves, How My MC's 2 Childhood Deaths Were Nearly My Own, and Animal Hugs Sept 4, 2025 While the Gods Sleep Book One of The Perilous Gods is currently on NetGalley and is set to release three weeks from today! What the early reviews are saying: And of course, this amazing endorsement: "The pleasures...
5 months ago • 6 min read
An occasional newsletter from a writer of weird things...Musings on writing, reading, and various piffle, but always a cute animal video. Cover Reveal At The Nerd Daily! and other fun updates Aug 7, 2025 Things are starting to feel really real. The Nerd Daily (a UK online source of book reviews, previews, and interviews) was kind enough to feature the cover reveal for all three books in my upcoming trilogy. So without further ado — ta da!! You can click the preview below to go to the full...
6 months ago • 2 min read