Author: Liz

What are you doing over here? There’s guest art by Erik Owomoyela over on the Things Without Arms and Without Legs website! In other news I’m at page 254 of 574 of my novel. Reading it out loud is slow going, but I’m removing words that don’t pull their weight. Sometimes I even add words.…

Roller Derby is such a satisfying thing to play. I was sad when the scrimmage ended, I wasn’t nearly exhausted enough. It felt really good to be out there and my team mates are wonderful. It’s great when it feels like both teams are working hard, throwing themselves in with gusto, but no one is…

Horrific Miscue are a writing critique group I’ve been part of for a few years now. Where has the time gone?  Tonight Mike and I had the pleasure of hosting the Christmas Party and present battle. It was delicious and fun – so nice to see people having a good time. I like to be…

Mike and I were picking up last minutes supplies at Wholefoods last night when I realized I was ravenously hungry. I remembered that Wholefoods will cook almost anything from their seafood and meat section for a $2 fee and so we decided to try their cooking. I wandered up and down the counters, but nothing…

When I wear my non skating official roller derby hat it isn’t new wheels or skates or socks that make me go squee. It’s stopwatches. My Oslos arrived today. One is in Lightning Fist of Science purple. The other is in dark pink. Oh sure it looks like red, but pink is the color of…

My throat is tired from reading my novel out loud all day. The novel is better for it, even if I am not. When I ran out of puff reading my novel I wrote a postcard to a friend and that revived me. Last night’s roller derby practice was a lot of fun. I’m not…

Today I worked on query letters and my synopsis. I started reading my novel out loud, but I only got up to page 25 and had to stop. I encountered an inconsistency in my use of the alien number systems (they have three). I needed to think through my use of base 5 and 6…

I have been tagged in The Next Big Thing, a branching pyramid-of-prose where authors discuss their latest release or WIP. I was tagged by Caren Gussoff a super smart lady, a lyrical and literary speculative fiction writer. What is the working title of your book? The Scent of Memory. Where did the idea come from…

Wow! It’s December! DECEMBER! Time for a lightning quick catchup round. Reviews, Musical Foreplay and Roller Derby! Anywhere But Earth reviewed by Cosmos Magazine coeur de lion’s enormous science fiction anthology was reviewed by Cosmos Magazine (you’ve gotta love a mag who’s tag line is “The Science of Everything). It’s great to see a science…

Strange Horizons are a terrific online magazine who published my story The Rugged Track, a rollerderby fairytale. Their staff are volunteers with a professional attitude and they pay their fiction writers professional rates. To continue as a non profit magazine that pushes the awesome, actively encourages diversity, values creators, and brings to the world some…