Why I am self-publishing
Shortly before the election, I found this on Reddit: Racist YA novel receives backlash. This was posted at the cesspit known as Oh No They Didn’t, a LiveJournal community dedicated to celebrity gossip. I used to visit that site frequently but after the 2008 election, I stopped, and I haven’t really missed it since. I…
Happy Thanksgiving
I am grateful to be an American. I am grateful to have been born in this great country, and I am grateful to live here. I have Native American ancestry on both sides of my family, and I still feel this way, regardless of what happened in the past. No nation has a perfectly peaceful,…
So it begins
Alrighty then. After moping about my horrible week, I decided to do some reading. After all, it’s a much needed distraction given all the drama that’s going on in my life at the moment. My novel, Nemesis, deals with a lot of themes. One of them is sexual abuse. I am sorry if the topic…
The past two days have been awful
Wow, the past two days have been pretty horrible. I don’t want to get into the details because frankly, it’s humiliating (and has nothing to do with politics…at least, I don’t think so). I know I need to work on my book but I just have no motivation or confidence in myself anymore.
“Arrival” was surprisingly pro-life
I saw the movie Arrival last night, and overall I liked it. A couple of things kind of bugged me (this sequence where a couple of soldiers are listening to some Alex Jones type of “anti-government” show – it inspires them to do something bad. I won’t spoil it, though), but the end was amazing.…
Whew
I’ve been meaning to do this forever, and I’ve finally gotten it done. FINALLY. Now I have a personal blog, at this domain I’ve been paying for forever, and I’ve even added a page with the summaries of the three books I am currently working on. Now comes the long, arduous work of learning how…