I've written some folklore for my fictional worlds, and decided to expand this into a book. "Sa'adani Tales" is the collection name. Soon I'll be seeking crowdfunding support for this project. [Continue]

Gay marriage has been in the news a lot lately, but how does same-sex partnership work in Sa'adani space? This post outlines the contract-based relationships commonplace in the science fiction setting of Mainline, "Live Fire", and related works. [Continue]

Here's a look behind the scenes on the development of the Tiptree Award nominated short story "Live Fire" by Deborah Teramis Christian. [Continue]

My first contribution to an anthology appears this month in No Man's Land, a military science fiction series from Dark Quest Books. "Live Fire" is a Sa'adani Empire short story, taking place in the same setting as my science fiction novels. [Continue]

Science fiction often portrays how people live in the future, but rarely gets into the decisions or urban planning processes that got them to that point. I've had to think about Sa'adani urban planning philosophies lately in order to better [Continue]

Galactic empires offer us the opportunity to break away from 20th/21st-century culturally rooted stories and milieus and go someplace truly daring. Too many of these stories don't. They not only fail to be daring, they don't even bother to leave [Continue]

I'm a woman and a U. S. Army veteran. That puts me in a small class of authors who, like Elizabeth Moon and Sandra McDonald, have military experience and also write military science fiction. McDonald's and Moon's works are intriguing - and [Continue]