Steaking Out Privacy, Actor Idolization, and Wrong Writing Groups
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 […]
Can You Do Me a Favor?
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 […]
No Longer Supreme, SCOTUS is Now the Supremacist Court
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 […]
Christofascism: Awful Doesn’t Begin to Describe SCOTUS
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 […]
Alien Sensation Launches, Fifth Novel of Other Worldly Series
Alien Sensation has launched in time for the summer solstice, but the opening scene takes place around the spring equinox. The timing might not be great with all the happenings in Congressional hearings, but this fifth novel of the Other Worldly series has its own investigative hearings, complete with bigoted Republican anti-alien blowhards (unfortunately). Not […]
If There’s “No Evidence,” Why Did Congress Hold Hearings?
“There’s no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin.” A statement recently issued by NASA. I’ve heard astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson say as much in appearances on MSNBC. Perhaps this is evidence of folks who are envious of those of us who have our own personal evidence. Some don’t have to prove, or need proof, […]
Pushing Patriotism Under Disingenuous Guise of Innocence
What is it with adults who just can’t help themselves from pushing their selective version of patriotism—or religion couched as patriotic politics—on the rest of us? And when one pushes back, no matter how polite, or harsh yet pointed, the response to this encroachment, they act wounded. Turning the tables to deflect from their words […]
Calling Out Gun-Worshipping Fanatics for What They Are
The opening scene of Alien Sensation, fifth novel of the Other Worldly series coming later this month, involves a threat to protagonist Rowan Layne’s life by a gun-toting supposed “religious” fanatic who doesn’t like her speaking truth, or really speaking at all. Because he’s also a misogynist straight out of the Salem witch trial mentality. […]
Sidestepping the Humorless to Write What’s Funny
Now that my fifth book of the Other Worldly series, Alien Sensation, will launch this month, my mind travels back to all of the input, advice, criticisms and general commentary I’ve consumed and attempted to digest in the past four years regarding writing and the publishing process. The whole gamut can be a daunting prospect, […]
Gun Fetishists, Unmitigated Greed, and the Pathological Pursuit of Power
Three years ago in late May, just before Memorial Day, I wrote a newspaper column titled, “Patriots stand in front of a gun, not behind gun rights.” I was living in an insidiously toxic place called Lyon County in Nevada at the time, where that March all five county commissioners voted to declare it a […]