“To master your craft, you must become one with your instrument,” he says, intoning as if quoting someone erudite and long-deceased. -from “The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by yours truly, NOW published! It took a long time to find a home for this short story. Thanks @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 😱

The Beekeeper's Daughter, my story of bees, giants, goblins, secrets, and more bees, is only one of many in the new issue of Kaleidotrope, online now at kaleidotrope.net

On Monday morning I went for a nature walk, and ran down to the stream to capture the glorious dappled light on this weathered wood stump, rooted in spite of everything around it.

Writers know that not everything we write ever sees the light of day. But, I had this one poem I really wanted to place, so I kept searching for the right home for it (read: rejections! waiting! sadness! etc.!). www.taiwaneseamerican.org/2025/06/char... (1/🧵)

Do you have any favorite quotes about gardening or flowers? Inspirational or sarcastic, I’d love you to share with me!

“...the earliest account is from our foremother, Rhoda. You know her better as Red Riding Hood. That’s right, she was a real person. Back then, it was still a handbasket, but more on that later.” Read the rest of HELL IN A HANDBAG, on Metastellar. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

I’m so tickled that Jimmy Fallon is doing a March Madness-style bracket of books 📚 Congrats to all the nominated authors—I voted every round, and these were tough decisions!!! the-tonight-show.com/fallon-book-...

(1/4) CONGRATULATIONS to Nadaa Hussein, Angel Leal @angelvleal.bsky.social, Katie R. Yen @katiedowrite.bsky.social, and Elis Montgomery @elismontgomery.bsky.social on making the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Long List! Links in thread...

“The air pressure felt ominous the morning my husband died, like the entire universe was shrinking to accommodate the loss. But it had only been a thunderstorm, seasonal and expected.” Read “The Obsolete Model,” my heartfelt speculative story featured in The Nonbinary Review, Issue 35, Old Friends.

Show of hands: who else started watching Resident Alien and shouted, “Steve the Pirate!”? 🏴‍☠️👽

I cannot wait for the next season of Foundation, one of the best sci-fi epics. 🪐Lee Pace as Day could be its own show. Seriously. Do it.

Happy to learn that one of my favorite books, Yōko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police “, is being adapted into a film starring Lily Gladstone, and a script written by Charlie Kaufman. If you haven’t…Read the book first!

Found out that my speculative poem is nominated for the Rhysling Award hosted by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. Congrats to all the finalists! Thanks to the editors at the magazine for believing in my work, and to the SFPA for the honor.

Hugo awards controversy aside, I’m grateful to have found S.B. Divya’s story “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold” from Uncanny Magazine on the nominations list. Read it here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/two-...

Live Q&A on writing with Anne Lamott today. Looking forward to it! awritingroom.com/freeqa/

Yesterday, I shared that at this point in my publishing journey I’ve racked up *hundreds* of rejections. Within a few hours I received an *acceptance* from 🥁 Zoetic Press!👏 “The Obsolete Model,” a heartfelt work of speculative fiction, will appear in NonBinary Review’s upcoming ‘Old Friends’ issue.

Thinking back to when I first read Stephen King’s “On Writing,” he spoke of all the rejection letters he hung from a nail on his wall to motivate himself. While today’s correspondence is electronic, the truth remains: rejection means you’re laboring to share your work with the world.

Just heard that one of my fave podcasts, Heavyweight, is looking for a new home. If you’ve never listened, I recommend Episode 51 about a (true) 500-year-old curse, exorcism and cabbages… open.spotify.com/episode/5812...

I love a good anthology, since it has the power to expose the reader to work they might never have considered choosing on their own. Here are a few of my favorite poems from ‘The Best American Poetry 2023,’ with series editor David Lehman and guest edited by Elaine Equi.

New Year wishes for you, via poet Billy Collins

My book club buddies are having a gift-wrapped book swap, so I used the October issue of Book Page magazine to wrap mine! Fun fact: the cover feature for October is Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House, which also happens to be our December read 💜📚

This year, I said goodbye to my mother, father-in-law and uncle. I wrote “Chronicle of Constellations,” a poem, in their memory, published in The Literary Hatchet. Read for free after dl thru the link 💜

Can’t talk write now, am Nanowrimo-ing.

Spooky poem for the spooky season, from Apparition Lit 💀 I wrote this about my jaw surgery, because medical procedures are dreadful, but legal contracts are worse.

Realistic Nanowrimo advice for the best of us

If I didn't tell you this short was by Stephen King, would you still read it? Just spooky enough, with an ending that made me smile 👻

Whenever I’m having a bad day, or want to make a great day even better, I play this video and turn it up - Straight No Chaser’s cover of That’s What I Like, aka Strawberry Champagne Fortunately, my corporate office was never like this … youtu.be/MbCgvqI8_oI?...

I signed up for Nanowrimo for the first time, even though this isn’t my first rodeo. I’m picking up a draft already in progress, hoping this will give me the push I need to shove me to the finish line. What are y’all’s Nanowrimo plans?