Seanan McGuire, Cat Valente, and a number of other authors I respect immensely were talking today about using Patreon to fund some of the things that keep authors alive and working, like health insurance and a cushion in case of expensive disaster. They make a lot of sense. So I’ve started a Patreon. Patrons will get access to exclusive content, and it can also be used to ‘hire’ me as an editor.
Become a Patron Here.
Common advice tells you to write every day.
I never got the hang of it.
Continue reading “Every Day” →Recently, I found out that a friend who shares my illness, a friend who was instrumental in my pursuit of diagnosis and proper treatment and who is a publicly visible advocate for disabled people, was being stalked by someone who accused them of “faking” and “has a friend who is writing an article about it.”
Continue reading “What It’s Like to Live With EDS (Because Clearly People Still Don’t Know)” →There’s a lot going on in this body.
It’s amazing to me that so many people get to go through the first thirty, forty, fifty years of their lives without thinking much about their meatsuit. It doesn’t interrupt them. It doesn’t stop them from going places. It doesn’t rebel when they eat perfectly normal things. Amazing. If you have that, please take a moment to appreciate it.
Continue reading “Health Update” →There’s only so much a girl can change. Perhaps I am growing old. Except that college kids keep mistaking me for their people, so possibly I am not growing old correctly. All the same, I refuse to give up my purple hair or my gratuitous cursing.
Continue reading “New Year, Very Similar Me” →AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Okay, no, but seriously.
Continue reading “Updates from NaNoLand” →First off, it’s nice that I can post any old thing on this blog and y’all read it anyway. You might be here for the politics, or the writing, or the queerness, or the book recs, but you seem to keep reading regardless of my dumping uncategorized content in here. I love you, too.
Continue reading “Long Absence, Few Words” →Let me tell you a story.
I used to work as a dog-walker/cat-sitter/chicken-chaser/iguana-nurse. (I signed up for the dog-walking part, and the rest just happened.)
Continue reading “In Case of Fire, Don’t Be Shy” →So, you wrote a book and it’s out in the world now. You don’t have a Big 5 powerhouse shelling out thousands of dollars to market it, and so, in addition to your classy Author hat, you must wear many others; the ink-stained chapeau of the publisher, the bedazzled manic pixie dream bowler of the public personality, and finally, the logo-emblazoned baseball cap of the promoter.
Shoving your own work in front of people’s faces is hard.
Continue reading “Self-Promotion for Indie Authors: Spam Not Included” →I have been running myself ragged trying to be an activist. It doesn’t take much for me to be exhausted. I’m always sick, always tired, always about to keel over.
Continue reading “If You Can Do More” →
