The Thinking About Podcast invited me to talk about my writing life and being a self-published author. I was thrilled to be asked. The wonderful Kirsti McNabney hosts this show, which gets her audience thinking about interesting topics. We recorded the episode back in November 2022, but it aired February 7, 2023. Here’s where you […]
It’s hard to imagine that Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle would exist if I’d never taken a creative writing course with Nalo Hopkinson at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Before taking the course, I’d finished a novel draft and was working on a second project. I was excited about […]
Ten years ago, I stopped believing I would finish writing a novel. And I have never been so wrong. Editor’s note about “Don’t Stop Believing”: I originally published this essay on Medium. But their analytics are getting increasingly weird, so I’m giving it a permanent home here. * * * It was raining that night. […]
I originally wrote this post on Medium in 2015. I remember being excited that some ‘important’ Twitter accounts engaged with it. I’ve left the references to the manuscript that would eventually become Chaos Calling as-is. Once upon a time, I wrote a post assessing the pros and cons of the Wattpad platform for aspiring writers on my […]