An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Oh, wow, the sheer pettiness of Voice of Dog taking down all my stories they published.
The AI-hate among furry writing is so strong and so weirdly ironic. I mean, that’s a podcast that doesn’t pay writers at all for their contributions. Continue reading “Voice of Dog Taking Down My Stories”
So, since FurPlanet never got around to releasing my collection, Brunch at the All Alien Cafe, before cancelling my contract, I’m taking this opportunity to brush it up a little before releasing it myself through Deep Sky Anchor, hopefully on Pi Day.
I’ve swapped three stories that would have overlapped with either Welcome to Wespirtech or Beyond Wespirtech with three stories that I hadn’t written yet when Brunch at the All Alien Cafe was accepted by FurPlanet. And the new stories actually match the theme better. Continue reading “Releasing Brunch at the All Alien Cafe… Finally!”
Christmas Comes Twice is a sweet little holiday time travel movie starring Tamera Mowry, which was nice since I recently watched through Sister Sister. She plays a high powered scientist who reconnects with one of her teachers played by Sheryl Lee Ralph from Abbott Elementary.
My 16-year-old, after accidentally pouring half a shaker of blue sugar on the floor while decorating a gingerbread house:
“Usually the dogs are idiots because they lick the floor. Right now the dogs are idiots because they’re not licking the floor.”
The Grumpy Cat Christmas movie would be fairly generic trending toward especially mediocre, except it’s furry. There aren’t enough movies about cats, & Aubrey Plaza’s snarky voiceover interruptions along with Grumpy Cat being waved around really elevate it to something… special. Continue reading “Grumpy Cat and Multiple Jack Frosts”
Otter Claus knows what you want for Christmas.
I watched “12 Days of Giving,” because it has Eli Wallace from Stargate: Universe in it. He was just as charming in a mediocre Christmas movie as in the far reaches of space, and it was a surprisingly nice little movie.
Rationally, I know I’m better off on my own than saddled with a publisher that didn’t reply to emails, delayed my books by years, and would end 12 years of working together with a curt email and zero warning. Continue reading “Tidbits of Surviving a Weird Time”
I feel like such a fool now for letting FurPlanet sit on Commander Annie & Other Adventures for almost four years, patiently waiting and defending their delinquency and lack of communication to my friends.
There are so many moving pieces and fiddly bits involved in getting more than a decade’s worth of work almost instantly republished. It’s a lot. Continue reading “After the Crash”
When my Entangled Universe trilogy came out from Aethon books, a number of people felt the need to pop up and tell me they wouldn’t be buying it, because that publisher only sells through Amazon, and they hated Amazon more than they cared about reading my fiction.
Now people are telling me they won’t read my fiction because of my stance on AI. Okay. No big deal. Continue reading “Things You Don’t Need to Tell an Author”
You don’t want to tangle with an octopus in a snowball fight. Unless you’re an octopus too, or maybe a spider or centipede or something, there’s NO WAY you have enough arms to keep up.
As someone who loves octopi so much that my mom let me skip a day of school as a teen to go to an aquarium and stare at a sleeping one for three hours in a wind tunnel while it twitched precisely once, it really means a lot to me how much better AI is getting at drawing them. Continue reading “Always Loved Octopi”