Category: News update

  • ALL THE DERBY

    ALL THE DERBY

    Sooo, you’d like to see me play Roller Derby, or would you like to support me skating many many laps either in person or from afar (in person having the bonus that you can enter a cookie decorating competition AND/OR help make posters to support our all stars at divisionals). BOTH options are available! 23…

  • Interviewed in Uncanny Magazine

    Interviewed in Uncanny Magazine

    I answer some questions about writing, creativity, and how it intersects with roller derby and Aikido!

  • Clarion Blog list has been updated

    Clarion Blog list has been updated

    Clarion & Clarion West blog resource updated to include Isabel Yap, Curtis C. Chen, Folly Blaine and Marlee Jane Ward and so many more to capture!

  • Uncanny Magazine

    Uncanny Magazine

    Uncanny Magazine is a shiny new magazine from the uber creative team  Lynne M. Thomas (Three-time Hugo Award-winner, Apex Magazine, Chicks Dig Time Lords, Glitter & Mayhem) and  Michael Damian Thomas (three-time Hugo Award nominee, Apex Magazine, Queers Dig Time Lords). I love their vision of what fiction can be and it’s exciting to see what they’ll do with an ongoing magazine that…

  • That mountain. That mountain.

    That mountain. That mountain.

    If anyone asks you why you’re a writer just play them the song, over and over. They will understand, eventually they will understand. Or at least they will stop asking. I am so tired! I’m glad I finished my story in a little over three hours and was able to spend the last bit writing…

  • Last week of the write-a-thon

    Last week of the write-a-thon

    It’s crazy to see how fast time has passed. For the Clarion Write-a-Thon I pledged I would write three stories in six weeks. Two stories are done, now I just have to write the third. I’ve started the story, but I’m going to finish this story in style. On Tuesday 29 August from 1pm to…

  • I can’t vote. If you can, go do it.

    I can’t vote. If you can, go do it.

    I’ve been an alien long enough that I can’t vote in my homeland. I’m still an alien so I can’t vote in my adopted country. Throughout the world we’re seeing what a critical difference our elected leaders make and how grass roots activism can alter the priorities of politicians, can define what is news and…

  • Reading to you at Readercon

    Reading to you at Readercon

    Women Destroy Science Fiction and Women Destroy Horror will be holding a group reading from 6-7pm on Saturday July 12 at Readercon! Come listen to the dulcet tones of: Amal El-Mohtar Sarah Pinsker Holly Schofield Kameron Hurley Liz Argall Livia Llewellyn Gemma Files

  • Recent Derby

    Recent Derby

    Danny Ngan took some great photos of the double header roller derby bout last Friday. Jet City Bombers vs. Arch Rival Roller Girls and Jet City B-52s vs. Rat City’s Grave Danger. Grave Danger invited a bunch of people to skate with them and I got to skate with Danger. It was a fun bout…

  • Congratulations to the Locus Award Winners and Nominees

    Congratulations to everyone who made it to the list of nominees and congratulations to the winners! Check out the full list over on Locus’ website.