Big news: a billionaire has just arrived at your door to offer you a free flying car. It’s exciting, right? I mean, a flying car wasn’t something you particularly longed for, since you get around just fine with public transportation and/or your regular old road car. You were barely even aware of flying cars as a thing . Sure, you’ve seen some movies where flying cars are connected to dystopia and it was really obvious to everyone that they were a bad idea…but those are just m

Author’s Note: I originally published this blog in January of 2019. I have edited it slightly to reflect the passage of time. It’s about the long, happy life of an old, happy dog, and how I found the best way to say goodby and honor him when the time came. It does talk about his final days, which may be triggering for some. My dog, Max, was never supposed to make it to his first birthday, let alone his fourteenth. When I adopted Max with my college boyfriend, he was six month

Once upon a time, I was tagged online to do a Ten Books That Stayed With Me list— only the rules were that you couldn't explain why those books stayed with you, and I couldn’t handle the pressure. I figured I needed to do a blog post to fully explain my choices. When I finished writing the list, however, I realized that I hadn’t just named some of the books that stayed with me, but the novels that influenced who I am and/or how I write. These are the game-changers, the mind-b

The Other Frankenstein is out in print now! Here are answers to some of the questions I’ve been getting. Is this related to your other books? Nope! The Other Frankenstein is a literary horror novel and a loose sequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . It’s got a very different tone from my urban fantasy novels. A sequel? Does that mean I need to read Frankenstein to know what’s going on? Not at all (although it’s a great book, and still very relevant). The Other Frankenstein

Every now and then, I encounter someone who's been working on a book or comic or short story collection, and they ask me for advice on how to "break in" to the publishing industry. There are some authors who like to answer this question with a sardonic, embittered "Don't quit your day job," but I always hated that. So I tried to have a good answer ready for developing writers. (Incidentally, I hate the term “aspiring writer.” My friends, if you write, you’re a writer. That's