I have a water spout.

One of Mother Nature’s great mysteries.

Please stand and cheer for I have completed the first draft of my second full length work: a speculative fiction.

I am querying my first manuscript right at this very moment. It is an Austen riff.

In related news, have apparently lost my mind.

A city street in Baltimore. Three buildings. Two sport bright graffiti.

And that was my first AWP. Here’s looking at you, Baltimore:

YOU CAN DO IT

Reading THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai. Completely entrancing. Completely gutting.

It’s challenging. Nonfiction can sometimes serve the purpose. Though I have a few books I MUST read before AWP, so instead I’ve been binging online scrabble.

Romantasy, Romantacy, Romanticy. Jane Austen weighs in…

douchemaxxing

Amen, sister.

This is my Trying Season (double entendre). Receiving 2-3 rejections a day. It’s shocking when I get a yes.

It was an honor and delight to hear Jesse Jackson speak at McDonald’s Cafeteria in Charlotte, NC when I was still in high school.

Happy Valentine’s Day! I am writing a Jane Austen adaptation. Have uncovered new primary source materials on INSTAGRAM: @authorfkajaneausten

Fun! If you are down for some Jane Austen absurdity, I’ve started an Instagram: @authorfkajaneausten

The bots booted me once because my other name JaneAustenForReal was misleading. They contended people would think I was her.

Be warned, there’s nothing educational in the videos. Purely diverting.

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Jane Austen fans: previously undiscovered primary source materials just dropped re: Romantasy:

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I feel seen.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost

Black fluffy cat sits in cooler bag.

Sir, your cooler bag is now in my purview.

Black-lab-looking mutt draped in a tapestry chair, all bathed in winter light.

Dog like a painting.

The House Centipede is Fast, Furious, and Just So Extra | Deep Look YouTube video by Deep Look

sprucing up my lecture on the biomechanics of arthropod locomotion, DELIGHTED to see that KQED has blessed us with new house centipede footage youtu.be/q2RtbP1d7Kg?...

fill my plate

Tall boots, caked in snow. Drifts up to waist on the path to well spigot.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Love

Tabby cat intently watching bird feeder.

Birdwatch. Like Baywatch. More snow. Less bikini.

Woot woot

White tabby cat in a dustpan.

Sir, I has gathered all the furballs.

The Jen is mightier than the word.

Gab Cody and Sam Turich as Kent Grattan and Meryl Lombardy - in CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING which they wrote and devised with Tina Benko.

When I used to perform…

My debut novel (I’ve just started sending it to agents) is a contemporary (loose) adaptation of MANSFIELD PARK. It’s been fun making peace with what I love about Fanny Price (she’s strong, stubborn, and thinks deeply) versus her limitations (a sheltered teenager in love with her cousin).