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]

If you want to stay abreast of what I'm doing as an author, you might want to check out Warped Space, my new newsletter. It's more focused and less frequent than my blog posts, concentrating on writing and related activities. Plus, there are [Continue]

I suppose it was inevitable.   I get so immersed in my writing – must, because I “go there” and become part of these people, ride along with them like a ghost in the night or a spy-cam with night-vision – that I Become One [Continue]

I feel like time is a rollercoaster, to mangle a metaphor right out of the gate:  instead of up or down, it is fast or slow, and entirely out of my control these days. That may seem like a statement that applies at any time, but I will huff about [Continue]

In a roundabout way, this is an update on where I’m at in my process with Splintegrate. I finally have brain-sucking client work completely out of the way. Today I took a day off, played a board game with my sister, made peasoup (great in this [Continue]

I’m making some tiny forward progress on my blog geeking, although not, alas, on Splintegrate today.  It turns out that I have discovered (much to my dismay) that I am hard-wired for exclusive monofocus on whatever project is to hand. Failing [Continue]

I confess, I am going to be trapped in geek hell for a while with this blog transition.  My web host provides WordPress as a hosted service free of charge, and I want my blog to be imbedded inside my website.  But making my website + blog actually [Continue]