Blogs are weird. You have one as part of your website because it seems like a good idea. And then you forget all about it and things happen and you just think – well I guess I’ll jump back in a some point…

So yes – this is a good point!

All Lovers Burn at the End of the World is out! (cue fireworks, dramatic yet compelling music, and muted murmurs of crowd appreciation). Two years after signing the contract, 50 flash and micro tales of weirdness are out in the world.

Yay and double yay!

It can be bought here, and here, and here.

Also, check out this lovely interview with Myna Chang about the collection.

If you buy it and let me know, I’ll send you a bookmark with a scratch off fortune. It’s practical swag!

….I neglected to post about a publication. It’s small, easy to overlook. It waits just a little off to the side while I remember to share it.

A Universe in a Jar

I’ve included a pic of a time I thought a jar of microgreens would make a good diorama.

I’m super grateful to be nominated with some other amazing artists for Ellipsis Zine’s best of 2022.

Sort of like waking up and finding a sweet note from a friend.

Thank you Ellipsis Zine! You sure know how to lift my spirits!

Ellipsis Zine Best of… 2022

I usually post numbers around this time that may or may not mean anything, but here I am gathering them from the tree anyway. Look at the pretty numbers! If each one were a leaf, there would be a nicely turned out fledgling oak.

Short Story Stats for 2022

119 story submissions

109 story rejections

12 story publications

3 forthcoming publications

I also rewrote Ivy in the Age of Falling Ash twice more and queried until the branches were bare.

Ivy in the Age of Falling Ash stats (some are from 2021, but I can’t be bothered to separate it out!)

132 queries

3 fulls, 2 partials, and an R and R

But there were other good things!

I restarted a second book and finished 75%

I sent out a short story MS and chapbook

I started reading at SmokeLong Quarterly

I wrote a ton of stories and made some new friends.

It was a trying year, writing-wise, in that I lost some confidence along the way. But, like many things, it was just a season. Time to turn over a new leaf.

image from Maria Paula Contreras (Unsplash)

…for Atlas and Alice, containing my predictive origami story, “Folds Within Folds”.

There are so many amazing pieces in here, just chock full of goodness and weirdness and curiosity. Enjoy!

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