Links to stories, notes on writing noms, and what I've been working on over the past couple of months.
Author Life Updates: June and July 2023
Category: Fiction
South Sound Speculative Fiction Writing Group
I love writing. It's my lifeblood or my heart pulse; it's the thing that keeps me going. Noodling over a writing problem or coming up with a new story feels like living to me. But when I'm doing it in a community of other writers, it feels like magic.
r/PubTips AMA 7/7 @ 4 PM PDT
I'll be doing an AMA over on the sub r/PubTips this Friday, July 7, 2023, from 4 to 6pm PDT/7 to 9pm EDT! While my other AMA was all about fantasy writing, editing, and reading, this one is going to be all about short story writing, editing, selling, submitting, and all things short stories.
Author Life Updates: April and May 2023
Ignyte nom, short story writing and editing, reading, and more!
r/Fantasy AMA 6/25 @ 8 AM PST
Excited to announce I'll be doing an AMA over on r/Fantasy this Sunday. I'll be answering all things related to my fantasy writing, editing, and reviewing—including book and story recommendations!
How I Wrote: To Carve Home in Your Bones
'To Carve Home' is one of those stories I needed to tell. I needed to talk about trauma and home and becoming your own person in a way that featured monsters and fantastical creatures and a world without fear.
Author Life Updates: February and March 2023
I'm at this really interesting point in my career, where I don't want to miss anything, in a sense. I'm doing what I have always wanted to do: be a professionally published working writer who tells a good story well. Like I look back over the places I've published and worked with over the past few years and am pretty flabbergasted.
Author Life Updates: January 2023
Entering year five of the blog (!!!) and with a lot of my history as a writer stored here, I'm always wondering how to change or update the blog to meet my life.
Links to October Stories
Curious about where you can find my writing and editing work from October 2022? Check the links below for my work from Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, and more.
How I Write: What I Did to Become a Full-Time Writer
The path I took to become a full-time writer, I don't think, is all that unique. But one of the biggest things that helped me was reading posts like this from authors who were where I wanted to be. I've mentioned it before in tons of my craft articles, but I used other authors' careers as a guide map.
Aigner Loren Wilson 