first idea was the best idea edition

Okay, I’ve finally done what I meant to do in January and moved back onto WordPress. Tinyletter is gone (RIP), Substack has a Nazi infestation, and you know what, self-hosting a WordPress site has worked for me since 2007, so…

big green girl edition

Erm, I’m back. It’s only been, what, three months since I sent one of these? I actually had news to share, too – I have a sad zombie/mom guilt reprint out now (by which I mean was out in September)…

toxic nostalgia edition

Welcome, world, to this, the day before my period. My anxiety, like a furious elemental protogod, has broken through its feeble medication-forged chains on a violent surge of hormone disruption, I’m on the verge of vomit after spending the last…

StokerCon 2023 recap edition

Hello internet loved ones! First things first, I apologize for spouting off about Shiny Happy People last time. After the first episode, I thought it was going to be a true crime dramatization of the rise and fall of the…

parasocial BFF edition

Hello, my long-lost loves, I’m headed to sunny Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania next week to go to StokerCon, hurray! It’s my first horror-specific writing conference, and I’m starting to get jittery. It feels oddly high-stakes, considering I don’t have anything to sell,…

social media musical chairs edition

Hi friends, Okay. It looks like I’m all in on Substack, and I’m feeling guardedly optimistic that it’ll be possible to have an open writing community even if Twitter becomes (more) unusable. Substack feels so much better to me than…

shiny new platform insecurities edition

A few days ago, I kind of impulsively imported my three-month-old TinyLetter account into Substack, without much awareness of what Substack was or what I was getting myself into (there’s a whole Twitter substitute in here apparently?). Sooooo I hope…