Luna Moth Woman

I read recently where using actual science in your science fiction can give a story more plausibility. I didn’t set out to write traditional science fiction, but I have in fact used established science as the basis for some decidedly otherworldly concepts in my speculative fantasy fiction series featuring aliens. I have research known as […]

Exciting and unprecedented happenings as I was boarding a plane yesterday evening to return home after visiting family. I never dreamed I’d be positively giddy about what I was seeing on Twitter, and I was bummed I had to miss Maddow Monday on MSNBC. But as I’ve perused social media over coffee this morning, a […]

Another prescient uncanny tidbit reared its head in reality after I’d written about it in my Other Worldly novel series. It’s not a fun or feel-good way to promote Alien Sensation that launched in June, but here goes… Recently I saw a Twitter post deriding a disgusting ad for none other than the NRA selling […]

My love of country and my faith in humanity are going up in flames. Can you feel it? That boiling-over-on-the-edge-of-a-precipice tension? Earth is heating up while the willfully ignorant and selfish deny climate change. US courts have lit a dangerous fuse, giving more rights to guns than to victims of gun violence, more rights to […]

Recently I read a great online piece about writing your passions in Writer’s Digest. It addressed the now seemingly clichéd advice to “write what you know” as great for beginners but espoused how eventually you should evolve as a writer and let your passions be your guide, your inspiration. I wholeheartedly agree and have previously […]

I’m back in writing mode, having finally written a fourth chapter for my next novel in the Other Worldly series, Altogether Alien, and I’m participating in a writing contest this weekend, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on that. Because it unfortunately causes angst even as it challenges me. First, some background. It’s a […]

I just saw a tweet about being consumed with existential dread and said, yeah, I get it. It’s why I’m having trouble writing these days. I’m three chapters in on the sixth novel of my Other Worldly series, but I haven’t drafted a word in weeks. It’s not writer’s block. It never has been. It’s […]

Has anyone ever had a cop ask them, “Can you do me a favor?” I certainly haven’t, and I’m a white female. Then again, I’m liberal and was once a lawyer, so my experience with police has rarely been rifled with rational discourse on their end. I used to ask officers being deliberately bullying in […]

I’m now calling SCOTUS the Supremacist Court. Because it’s not supreme. Six of its injustices, four of whom are decidedly illegitimate because of how and why they were appointed, present white supremacist Christofascist propaganda and call it legal and “historical” analysis. Your average law student knows better. Indeed, your average non-lawyer citizen does. If they’re […]

Someone recently tweeted that the day’s Wordle represented fanatical members of the not-so-Supreme Court, and that word was “awful.” This is no game spoiler, because the current Christofascist majority of the Court is beyond appallingly awful. And the actual border crisis going on in this country isn’t down in South Texas, it’s everywhere. It’s the […]