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Writing Advice: No Zero Days
This month’s question comes from @queenofsquiggles@tech.lgbt on Mastodon: “How do you feel about the "No Zero Days" approach for writing? I've heard…
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Excerpt: A Fairy Tale
"The Story of Tali'a Ma," a fairy tale from The Price of Thorns
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September 2023 Dispatch
August is behind us, which means there’s only a couple more months of summer temperatures yet for us to enjoy our pumpkin spice lattes in before…
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Special Announcement: Price of Thorns e-ARC available!
A lot of you have seen me talk about my upcoming fantasy novel The Price of Thorns, a story with fairy tales, transformations, found family, and a queer…
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August 2023
Writing Advice: Physicality
I’ve been going through a lot of revision lately, so I want to talk about a thing that I’ve been working on. Physicality—communicating the sense of…
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Excerpt: Winter Games
Hey, if you haven’t heard, the Winter Games audiobook is out! We’re doing a Q&A with the narrator, Sam Wells, on my Picarto channel on Sunday, August 20…
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August 2023 Dispatch
Followup to last month: I’m on Mastodon (@kyellgold@furries.club) and now Bluesky as well (@kyellgold@bsky.social). I’m still on Twitter, too. Most of…
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July 2023
Name That Dude
From @darkend@redwombat.social: “how do you go about choosing names for characters, especially if those characters come from parts of the world you…
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Excerpt: The One With The Spooky House
I’ve been going through old stories to put together some collections for publication, and it turns out I have enough under both my names to make a…
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July 2023 Dispatch
For a week or so, I’ve been thinking about tweeting something like “hey, if you’re a creator who uses Twitter to connect with your audience and you…
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June 2023
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