Author: marylowd

I won an award! My short story, “The Canoe Race,” written with Daniel Lowd won the Coyotl Award for Best General Short Story!

DRAFT ONE OF “OTTERS IN SPACE 2” IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Instead of fading away as I’ve grown up, my imaginary friend from childhood has taken on new life, first as a side character in my novels and now moonlighting as a baby-sitter for my daughter’s imaginary friends while she’s in school.

Proof I enjoy playing my new ocarina: I’m choosing to practice playing it instead of listening to the new Owl City album.

I can play themes from Indian Jones and Jurassic Park on my fish ocarina. It’s nice to have a little clay fish who will sing for me.

I’ve added a chapter break!  That counts as writing, right?

After many hours touring Eugene elementary schools, we’ve decided that our default neighborhood school is actually the one we like best. Yay!

SteamPunk: a silly genre of fiction that requires me to study whether the invention of electric light predates the discovery of aluminum.

(Spoiler: Yes. But its use wasn’t widespread yet.)

I spent the afternoon watching Star Trek romances with a half-faerie and am invited to a feast in Rapunzel’s Tower tomorrow. Life is good.

Reading fiction that consistently mixes up past and present tense feels like being trapped inside a blender crossed with a time machine.

There is something both deeply wrong and deeply right about Star Trek novels: they both are and are not Star Trek.