Thank you 😊

Oh my goodness gracious! 😊

Hahaha I know, I never know how to do these 😅

Nope, sorry, he is the worst!

Hopefully I did that emoji spoiler right! They changed which chapters would be included in the update (which messes with the pacing, but it can't be helped). I had everything so perfectly planned!

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Okay! I’ll take a look at them. I posted your note in my QA chat too

Spring has sprung and my dog’s got a screw loose! #dogs #pnw

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words. It means so much to me that my work is out there, being read and making an impact

Yes, I grew up with this

MC: 20
Montclare: mid-30s
Sabrina: 25
Virginia: 25
Volpe: 27
Frank: 22

I want people to know exactly who I am and where I stand.

This is why IF has so long felt like a "safe" space to write for me. My readers select/perform their HEAs, allowing them full choice and expression. But I, as a writer, don't have to "pick a team" as I was so often told to do as a child/young adult. I can be fully myself

In writing, sexuality is often thought of as "performative," i.e. it is demonstrated through the character's actions. This means, in romance, even if you name a character as bi, they are frequently read as "taking on the sexuality" of the character they HEA with

Being queer isn't separable from a character or a plot point, anymore than my queerness can be separated from me. For all of my adolescence I was told to "pick a team," that I would "grow out of it" my "phase." Only in writing interactive fiction have I felt as a writer I didn't have to "pick"

I am a bi/pan woman, and for me, writing interactive content where all LIs are given complexity and equal weight in the plot has been an expression of my civil rights and my way of participating in the fight for equal rights for other people like me.

Salmonberry blossom! #bloomscrolling

It was a few things! I went through and analyzed other RC stories, to see what they were doing. Also I want to restart working on prose projects, which are primarily 3rd past. I do think it makes for a prettier historical style :)

4 out of 6 cats

A screen shot of ink project statistic for The Sins that Cry for Vengeance, taken in mid-March. 136,586 words, 247 knots, 19 functions, 868 choices, 234 gathers, 549 diverts.

A fun part for me is when I get done with a batch of chapters I drop it into my main, large file (so it is all easy to search). Then I can look at the complete word count! 136,586 words...

Ah, thank you! And I can only mention what I did—I think others had other paths into RC. I have no idea what the deadline is!

I studied a year of medieval history while abroad (Wadham), and since then my lottery dream has been enough land to make a medieval garden inspired by the quadrivium! I’d probably get waaaaaaay too much into that research… 😅

Yep! I’ve got another 64 chapters to go on Sins…

I think I’d kill it at Regency. But personally I quite like the late 19th. The transition into electricity is so dramatic! I think it would be quite self-indulgent to write something about medieval gardens, because gardening/heirlooms are a hobby

Ah thank you! Very sweet of you to say so! 😊

I also wrote Versailles and now I’m writing Sins

My cowriter was very productive today! #cats #amwriting

Submission Guidelines - Small Wonders Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.

Hey poets! We'll be open for poetry submissions from March 16 - April 27! Get those poems polished and ready for potential publication! We pay $60 / poem for SFFH narrative poetry, any length.

Here's where you'll go to submit when we open:

I'm QA testing today! On a Saturday. My kids were at home on Friday (no school) thus, catch up. Ended up working out better! It's been hard these 3 months to balance kids/work, esp. with the new production schedule. I'm burned out. In the next academic quarter it should get better for me :)

As coincidental as seventeen years of publishing in professional venues and contexts can be! ;)

I’ve written for many people over the years. Familiarity with Google Docs and spreadsheets

Hope that helps!

I’m not sure about the writing portfolio. I can’t remember what I was working on at the time of application, but I probably drew on that. I’ve never understood portfolios, I’m afraid—so I feel the success I’ve had there is coincidental…

For me, writing for RC is how I make a living writing. Unlike many writers I know, I am a full-time commercial writer, and my income is meaningful to my household. It is NOT a part-time job and the production requirement is rigorous enough that additional freelance work is challenging.