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…
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)…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Hi everybody, Here’s a little change of pace, since I’m so behind on sending these things. I wrote this back in May 2020 and stuffed it in a folder. Today, though, I saw something about Phantom closing on Broadway after its 35-year…
Hi friends, It’s Spring Proper here, which means I’m starting to have wardrobe anxiety. I understand how to dress when it’s cold. I’m actually kind of good at it. But here at the equinox of my life, I find myself still failing to figure out how…
Hi friends, I’m going to try to ease up on screaming at you about state-sponsored censorship efforts this week, I promise. I just… struggle to find other things to talk about, honestly. [note from the future: I’m returning to the…
We meet again. Here\’s your weekly reminder that it\’s time to get very loud about intellectual freedom and freedom of expression if you aren\’t already. If you don\’t live in a red state, I know it might be easy to write…