*Steps into social media. Looks around. Steps out of social media.* Sorry ya'll, I'm not quite healed enough for this yet.

So it appears I'm starting a new writing project. Heathen friends, can anyone recommend any Sigyn devotional material, besides Lea Svendsen's amazing book? Pretty sure the answer is "there ain't much" and that's okay. I know how to do everything I need to do. I'll make this work! ....I think. 😅

I am living for the live reports from Magfest I am getting from my nieces and nephews. “I saw the character you like that needs therapy!” “Honey, that doesn’t narrow it down.” I love my family so much. 😂

My dog Freya is by the vet’s best guesstimate, twelve years old this month. Words cannot describe how much this girl’s love has changed me and helped me grow. She is the first dog in my life I got to pick out and take home from my shelter and she is still queen of my heart. 1/2

No rest for the wicked. Gonna keep on fighting this year, and not going to let anyone steal my light and my passion. Happy 2026, all.

So grateful to all the hard working writers and editors involved with @icaruszine.bsky.social! Proud to have been a part of the magic! ✨

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas. Monty always spoils me with my current fandoms and boy do I sure like the creepy red guy. We are on the road to visit family and so far my stomach is holding out as I get over a nasty bug. Here’s to a happy time with family after a rough year.

This was my first time completing a full vigil in all the years I’ve practiced. I usually stay up late and wake up early as I am NOT an all nighter human. Throwing down my bedroll so I could doze but still keep the candles going helped. Yule Cat Slumber party FTW! Welcome back, sun! Happy Yule!

Yule cat and company. Doing the Vigil thing with a cozy setup.

My piece 'The Drowning of Loki', and many other sea-worthy stories are out today in Currents! Please check it out!

I'm still standing and slowly remembering how to both smile and write again. I'm having a good time splishy splashing in a nice cozy corner of the Hazbin fandom, and I'm even starting to outline my next book. But rejections are still pouring in & things are slow.There is no rushing through grief.

I have been swimming in grief and bad news, but I finally have something good to announce. My flash fiction piece, “The Drowning of Loki” will be published in the next issue of @icaruszine.bsky.social! @aprilrc.bsky.social thank you for telling me to channel my grief into it.

A friend of mine died earlier this week and I've not been okay. Doing my best to pull myself back together.

That awkward moment where your ability to do your day job hangs in the balance of a local election and your moonlighting job gives you non stop rejections and you feel your sanity slowly leaving your body so you just say FUCK IT and write fanfic. Anyway, have a cat.

Just got out of Beetlejuice! Wooops uh I wasn’t expecting to get emotional about grief. But that show was very good - very appropriate for Halloween, and very appropriate for Samhain (in my own strange view) Anyway, BEETLEBUBU BEETLEBUBU BEETLEBUBU!!!

To celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary today we are in front row of Beetlejuice on Broadway! So excited for the show!!! It’s definitely nerd central here and I love it! 🎃

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Right now, what has been keeping me sane has been: a) attending No Kings with my mom b) limiting social media c) reading fanfic d) writing what sparks joy, even if that isn't the sequel.

Actual image of me as I try to figure out the sequel to my book.

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Can’t believe I’ve been doing this a decade. See you later, New York Ren Faire. (On the back of my hoodie it says “No Nazis in Valhalla” and “Witches Against White Supremacy” with patches of Fenrir, Hati, and Sköll.)

So grateful to Brandon Rogers, Bryce Pinkham, and Richard Horvitz for a memorable weekend that was balm for the soul!

Throwback to September, when I met Holly Black at my local Barnes and Nobles! I am so grateful for her words about writing and publishing, and had a lot of fun at the event! My TBR pile is getting even larger…

I did not have singing Hamilton songs with Richard Horvitz (the voice of Invader Zim and Moxxie) not once, but twice, on my bingo card for today, and yet… More later, but sometimes the world is a fun place, and I was thrilled to be reminded of that.

"Sometimes in the waves of change we find our true direction.” — Unknown

Woke up at 5am to a rejection from an agent I really liked. Then I pulled myself out of bed, walked the dogs, and wrote a bit of my next book. Fuck this system. I will make it through.

I just made my submission (huzzah for getting something done!) Mythology lovers, be sure to check it out!

WE RAISED HEL!!!! So thrilled to have carved this goddess pole with my other half at @nyrjorvikvikings! 💀🐺💖

Sometimes you just need a good cry in a California Pizza Kitchen.

Live drawings from Smalls on Friday Night

Grief is heavy. I’m still carving, still writing, and still swimming. Just a little slower than usual. WIP for Hel in @nyrjorvikvikings

It was a lovely weekend with my family, and I love my nieces and nephews so much. But the Loki flash fiction piece I'm working on is pushing me to new (and kinda scary) places. Still gonna do my best, but I think for tonight I need a break.

My weigh in on the controversy is that I am going to watch my little queer cartoon instead of wasting what precious time I have for joy and relaxation arguing about semantics over a shithead.

I am contemplating small presses. Does anyone have any suggestions on reliable ones to submit to? It's for an LGBTQ+ Historical/Folklore based Fantasy. I'm still doing the agent hunt, but just expanding my options! #writingcommunity

Doesn’t your black cat come with a kitty sized demon grimoire?

Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm

I have been grieving hardcore on top of a slew of rejections, but today I wrote a piece of flash fiction about Loki, e-mailed my editor about polishing it for @icaruszine.bsky.social, and sent out three new queries. Ready or not, I'm still going.

SOLDIERS: Remember them When the fire begins to fade For the fallen and afraid We are not to let them die in vain!

So there's this orange creep...

I’m 42 today and grateful for the wisdom to know when I need to slow down. Grief and trying to get a book published are a hell of a combination. Right now I have been taking solace in carving a goddess pole to Hel at my Viking camp. Things will happen as they are meant to.

“Whatever comes, I’m with you.” #HelluvaBossFanart #Stoliz

I did A Cooking and bought A Shiny (or two.) Gonna be real though, after a decade of doing this, I’m tired from Faire in new ways. And I’m not even talking about the cooking day. Grief is wild. But I’ll be back at it soon, carving a new goddess pole.

HERMES: And put your whole brain in it Remember every trick in your domain for this You gotta treat it like it is the main event You wanna get home? Put it all on the line! Be dangerous!

FAMILY!!!!

Friday night Otakon vibes. More pics of my amazing fam coming post con, but right now you get sassy Labubus, me, and Lucifer.

It’s strange how fandoms roll in just when I need them most, ready to inspire me into the right dynamic for a pair in my books. And as I have learned in the last few weeks, life is too fucking short. I am past the point of being sorry or ashamed of it. Thank you, fandom muses.

I really could use some good book news. Having a confidence boost in my work would help me a lot. If I could manifest anything right now, that would be it. But otherwise I guess I’ll have to settle for manifesting getting up from under these cats and cleaning.

Grief sucks.