image: text listing my work eligible for awards this year, which will be listed out below in greater detail It’s that time of year again, when writers everywhere toot their own horns about the works they’ve had published, remind folks “these are eligible for things, you know!” and ask for readers’ consideration.  So! I had…

A figure in a cowboy hat appears, brim pulled low over her eyes. She tilts her head up to survey the wasteland before her and shakes her head sadly as a lone tumbleweed blows past.  “It is past time to abandon the land of Blog,” she says, “for the more fertile and populated realm of…

Here’s where I’m at right now: I’m cautiously optimistic that Biden will win, though it’s not the blowout I/we’d hoped for, and honestly flipping the Senate is looking grim. Seeing that there won’t be a blue wave, that it’s not a wipeout for Trump, is disheartening, yes. Because when you pile up all of Trump’s…

So this year I had a baby.  And so I can now say from personal experience to all those who have called their stories their “babies”: OMG ARE YOU F-IN KIDDING ME??!?!?! My stories never woke me up overnight every 60-90 minutes, crying for feeding/diaper change/cuddling, and even if they did I could’ve shouted, “Leave…

Note: This post was originally drafted in late June. As today, July 31, I’m firmly in the throes of caring for the tiny human mentioned in the post, I’m presenting it without any additions or changes. –Amanda As I write this, my husband and I recently finished several rounds of testing on our dog, Cassia,…

The Escape Artists podcasts are again doing their Artemis Rising series. This is my second time participating in Artemis Rising–the first being “Mr. Quacky in Space” at Cast of Wonders–and this year, I’m in it twice: First at Podcastle, with a reprint and cast of “Starr Striker Should Remain Capitol City’s Resident Superhero, by Keisha…

Sooo to go by my posting, I had one story published this year. It’s actually three, with one more coming out later this week. Oops! But it’s a new day, and almost a new year, so allow me to quickly recap things what I had published this year. “The Call of Uncopyrighted Intellectual Property” in The…

So. A lot of stuff, on a personal level, happened in 2017. I resigned from my dayjob. (Thereby saving myself from the annual holiday-time layoffs that I’m 99% sure that this year, I wouldn’t have survived.) I moved in with my then-fiance, now husband. I married said then-fiance, now husband. (Photo by the VERY AWESOME…

I need to get this out of my system so that I can finish grieving, and processing, and then move on to finding ways to actually help people. So: Dear Trump Supporters, I am trying not to lump you all in one group. I am trying to practice empathy, and to remember that no, the…