Now seems like a good time to share that my Appalachian witch thriller A RIVER WIDE has a pub date, a cover, and is available on NetGalley and Goodreads!

I have hit a wall and I cannot afford to hit a wall this week. I'm not even halfway through!

Small presses, authors, book lovers - have you considered the fine art of LINKING TO THE BOOKS YOU ARE RECOMMENDING?

In case you missed it, yesterday an early preview of the cover for my new novella went live on @interstellarflight.bsky.social's Patreon! So swing over and check that out. www.patreon.com/posts/156372...

Guys! You can see the cover! It's real!

Hello, friends! The next couple of weeks promise to be full of exciting things!! A RIVER WIDE has momentum and you're going to hear all about it!

Nothing like a morning anxiety attack to spice up your day.

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

I promise there's no politics in my upcoming novella about a witch living in Appalachia whose sister kills a man and vanishes, probably nowhere good.

Y'all, the ice cream truck is back! It's definitely spring!

It is Monday. I have no desire to be at the office today. I need someone to wave a magic wand and make it so that I get to write all the time and can spend my spare hours volunteering to plant trees.

When all you want is to read the book that isn't coming out until Tuesday and you have to w*it.

"An Irish Airman Foresees His Fate," William Butler Yeats

Honestly, this. Men, please check your toxic hiking culture. It's so much worse when they are in a group, too.

Somehow it's 9:20 and I already feel as if I've run a marathon.

Every time I get self-conscious about my new wrinkles I look at a picture of Ursula LeGuin and think about how beautiful she looked in her antiquity.

Why am I so sad, I ask myself on a gray day with no sleep where I am trapped at my desk under multiple deadlines.

Opening up InDesign: "Hello, my old nemesis." *cracks knuckles*

I gotta say, Grandma Frida remains my favorite part of the Hidden Legacy series Graphic Audio adaptation.

Realizing how much I deeply need to reread the second book to write the third book. 🤔

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The only reason I want to believe in an afterlife is I'd like to be able to check in on folks who I have accidentally or by necessity failed and give them a hug. And also see my ancestors again, obviously. But wow the first reason is sitting with me today.

Happy to report success.

Wanna sit here and think about u for a good while, wonder if u feel fed, if there's enough daylight to warm u, enough night to restructure u, is love speaking one of its trillion languages & have ya been hugged recently (a trillion diff types of hugs, not all of em physical). Wanna. Will. Do.

Ah, had incomplete link before so re-posting. Absolutely thrilled and honored to see my debut collection, The House of Illusionists, on this list alongside so many amazing books and stories. Congratulations, everyone!! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

I am having a very bad week, it's going to get more bad, I accept that it's that way. Things giving me happiness: support from my writer friends, croissants, the light from my suncatcher and a possible beer with dinner.

Indie authors using Draft2Digital, this does indeed work, and your self pubs can now be sold on bookshop.org

Possibly planning a writing date with @mythicdelirium.bsky.social this weekend so cross your fingers for me that I keep it successfully!

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Started the week with the toddler taking a header off the side of the couch onto the hardwood floor so that's exciting. He seems fine? Going to have a goose egg for sure.

I HAVE SEEN THE COVER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

Since I am not striking today, I am donating. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com has some great resources if you want to fund whistles (and other things!) linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Hi, add this to your call your electeds, because this is not good.

Did another quick round of edits on A RIVER WIDE and folks, this is happening. So jazzed.

This looks like fun. 1 like = 1 random line from one of my novels/novellas, published or unpublished :)

Wow do we have a society that is fascinated with ideas and not implementation. There is so much money for research and experiments and "coming up with solutions" and then no support really for doing the work - the market is just supposed to handle that and it....doesn't.

Not me making small whimpering noises at my computer.

I've spent the snow weekend sharing training videos and resource links to all my IRL friends that you good folks in the writing-sphere have provided. You're wonderful, thank you.

One of the things I think the church got right (in theory) is tithing. Of course you should give a nice chunk of your expendable income to your neighbors. What would possess you not to? Obviously churches are as susceptible to corruption as any institution, but the concept is sound.

The only things holding me together this week are the Ilona Andrews novella coming out on Tuesday and the possible impending snowstorm.

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Somehow reaching the end of several projects all at once, and I don't know how to feel about it!

Yesterday these folks had raised $17k. As of right now they’re a few hundred bucks from $100k. A lot of that is Bluesky—y’all absolutely kick so much ass.

I took a personality test, which is possibly never a good idea...

Holy shit! If you are still on Spotify, get the fuck off asap.

Just...so tired. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Disturbing but not surprising—more confirmation that LLMs are copying machines

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