An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I was okay with the end of Stranger Things, but I’m definitely looking forward to the fan made Conformity Gate alternate ending that will almost certainly come out some time in the next few years when AI video gets a little easier to control.
Me: sets out to write a story inspired by The Manchurian Candidate after watching the relevant Star Trek episode, both movie versions, and reading the original book Continue reading “A Confluence of Trek”
Next month, I’m gonna be selling my books at the Oregon Author Fair, and I have several other book-selling events coming up later in the year! So, far, I’m scheduled to have a table at both BayCon 42 in July and ST-LV: Trek to Vegas in August!
I haven’t been to a Star Trek convention in a while, but they were basically my favorite thing as a kid. So, I’m pretty excited! Continue reading “Upcoming Events and Plans”
I’ve got a full first draft of the soundtrack for Maradia’s Robot Emporium!
I’ll have to listen to it a few times through to be sure it’s done, but wow. That will not be a chore! It blends 80s weird synth pop with 60s do-wop aesthetics in just the best way.
Between the 3D-printer we just got and the advances in music two months ago, I’m having the best week. Every day, I can print myself new toys and create new 60s/80s sci-fi songs. Continue reading “Toys and Songs”
I wrote my ultra short story, “Greatest of Them All,” at a conference about women in fantasy called Sirens. It seemed like the perfect intro to COMMANDER ANNIE AND OTHER ADVENTURES to tie the whole book together.
And now it makes a pretty little song.
My novella, “Commander Annie,” is very strongly inspired by a friendship breakup I went through in middle school. It was fully my first heartbreak. And there’s something just so healing about the catchy 80s-style song I’ve made to go with the story. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Commander Annie and Other Adventures”
I’ve made it halfway through converting my book, Maradia’s Robot Emporium, into an album of 80s-style weird synth pop songs, and it’s really turning into something special.
There should be more music about robots. And now I can do something about that! So exciting. Continue reading “What It’s All Been Building Toward”
I’m watching episode three of Pluribus and the fleet of trucks and people that roll up to the Sprouts right after Carol insists she’s a really independent person is quite the sharp commentary on the concept of independence.
Well, I won the game of random Christmas movie roulette tonight with two unusually excellent finds: Continue reading “Pluribus, Christmas Movies, and Other Tidbits”
I won NaNoWriMo and finished the third book in my Wanderlust Saga with 22 hours to spare!
That’s my sixth win, and this time I had to do it without actual NaNoWriMo.
My previous wins were In a Dog’s World, Entanglement Bound, Nexus Nine, and the first two Wanderlust books. Continue reading “Sixth NaNo Win”
I’ve created 124 songs in the last month and a half. Five soundtrack albums to accompany my short story collections, and one entirely original album.
And I’ve made it through the first third of NaNoWriMo… sans actual NaNoWriMo…
So, I’ve been keeping pretty busy. Continue reading “Halfway through NaNo sans NaNo”
My story, “Hide the Honey,” was inspired by my first experience drinking caffeine when I was a kid. It was such a giddy high, and the song absolutely captures the bubbly, fizzy nature of it.
My kid had to write a research essay a few years ago with the title “Jellyfish for Dinner,” so I promised to work on a short story by the same name while he worked on the essay… anyway, this means there’s now a song by that title too. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers: Disc 2”
Being able to make my own music with Suno these last few weeks has been such a massively seismic shift in my life. Famine to feast literally overnight, and it’s been taking everything in my brain to process it. I’ve never had enough of the kind of music I want ever before.
There’s just really not quite any other feeling like having whole albums of music perfectly, carefully tailored to my own tastes, filled with messages that mean something to me.