Elemental Succubi in the Horticulturati World

While most of the magic in my Horticulturati world are in the magic plants (and magic fungi), there are also a few magical creatures. The Greenies, for one – but we’ll get to those in a later post. (Buckle up – they’re weird!) One group of magic creatures that makes several appearances is the elemental

March Updates, Featuring Banter, Theft, and Charity

The bad news about March is that I haven’t written any words on The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse in three whole weeks. I miss my boys. The good news is that the reason I wasn’t writing Atlas Brothers was because I was writing a new short story for an LGBTQ+ charity anthology instead! That’s

New Story is Out, Writing is Slow, and Other Updates

Happy leap year! Even with the extra day this year, February still felt extremely short – and also extremely full of non-writing things. Life has been busy! But writing has been slow. My update this month is going to be a little short. The big news for the start of the month is that I

The End of Another NaNoWriMo

We’ve reached the end of another November, and with it, the end of another National Novel Writing Month. And we arrived right in time for final exams, the end of the semester, and final grades – so if I’m a little MIA for the next couple of weeks, you’ll find me under that giant pile

The Hundred Names of Atiya Djinn – publication deets plus excerpt!

So, hey, did I mention I have a short story coming out in a new anthology early next year? The anthology, Written in the Wind, is a name-themed collection being published by Worldsmyths Publishing. And I really like the way my story came out, too. The title is “The Hundred Names of Atiya Djinn” and

Big Energy in Little Packages

I have a young kiddo at home. He’s almost 6 (birthday later this month! 🥳), is consistently curious, and has enough energy to literally run laps around the living room from when he wakes up in the morning until bedtime. 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ This is also the first summer he hasn’t been in daycare, which means I’ve

Nature Bathing for Inspiration

If you know anything about me, it should come as no surprise that I enjoy being outside. I’m not saying I got a PhD researching plant ecology because it meant I got to spend a lot of time outside…ok, maybe I am. 🌸🐝🌿☀️ Plus, one of my biggest hobbies is gardening and growing heirloom vegetables.

Worldbuilding: The Thread Lifecycle

Since we have officially covered all of the (known) races of magic users in the Unworld Ecology series, I thought I would take a break this month from Cami and her friends to instead introduce a different worldbuilding topic: Thread. Thread is a fungus-like species from my short story “Into the Breaking Season,” which will

What’s Cooking?

Anyone else ever think about how writing a story is kind of like cooking? Or is that just me? 👩‍🍳 I love cooking (real food, not just stories). Baking, too. I learned both from my mom, and the way she taught me to cook was basically to look at a couple of recipes for inspiration,

Flash Fiction: “Boot Program”

Ok friends, look. I know this is a couple days late. And I know this isn’t a worldbuilding post. I’m sure you all wanted to know all about the Unworld Ecology’s last magic race, the weres. I promise we’ll get there (hopefully next month!), but I just haven’t had time to collate my notes this