Article: Not written by me but worth a read: Ten Commandments of Social Media. Article: Not written by me but worth a read: What do Editors do? Award Nomination: My Shadowrun short story, “Locks and Keys,” from the Shadowrun Returns anthology has been nominated in the Best Short Story category for the Scribe Awards! Woo-Hoo! Sale: I’ve sold my short story collection, Apocalypse Girl Dreaming, to Evil Girlfriend Media. I’m quite pleased with this. Convention: I’m just back from Norwescon. As usual, I’m doing my list of ten. Seven of these are true. 1. I may or may not have met a person legally named Peter Pan.2. I may or may not have had a panic attack at the Bless Your Mechanical Heart release party.3. I may or may not have been randomly offered a condom.4. I may or may not have signed so many books my arm hurt.5. I...

Today Xan van Rooyen tells me why a book may need to be re-written multiple times before the writer grows into the author the novel needs them to be. Then, and only then, can that story be told as it needs to be.   Silver Helix took me 12 years and 5 rewrites before it was ready for publication and found a home with Android Press. This book became the YA novel that landed me my first agent, but never sold, possibly because it was a little too odd and a lot too queer for the industry back then. At the time I began writing this book, I had no idea I was non-binary. I knew I wasn’t comfortable in my own skin despite how hard I tried to embrace my assigned sex at birth. For years I thought if I could just perform ‘girl’ better, then happiness and validation...