Guest Blogging for Brevity
One of my favorite online literary publications is Brevity, so I’m always thrilled when I can share my words through this venue. Over the weekend, I was able to attend Poets & Writers ((LIVE)) in San Francisco, and guest post on the Brevity blog (Making Love in Public part 1 and...
A Few Raves for Drawing
I just want to share a few awesome sources and materials for drawing. First of all, a book by Jason Brubaker , Unnatural Talent, is full of advice on making comics, self-publishing and being creative. He’s the author of the amazing graphic novels ReMIND I and II. As a light penciler,...
Poem Out
Life has been busy. I had a poem published in the anthology Not Somewhere Else But Here: a Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place in March. Night Dive off of San Miguel (Sundress Publications, edited by Erin Elizabeth Smith, T.A. Noonan, Rhonda Lott and Beth Couture) And I’m drawing/writing a lot. ...
Inspiration Comes in Waves
Right before the holidays, I received the 25th anniversary issue of I.T Post with my essay, “Inspiration Comes in Waves,” that includes an excerpt from my not yet published YA novel Hold My Hand. Below is the essay published on pages 104 and 105. The entire publication is gorgeous...
Harbingers of Love
Flocks of peach-faced love birds fill the tree canopies around my neighborhood, but only a pair or two ever visit the mesquite tree in my front yard. Until yesterday. I was packaging up my submission to a fiction contest, coincidentally called “Looking for Love,” when I heard the squeaking...
Footnote re: Inspiration
Recently, I wrote a brief essay about inspiration for the next issue of I.T Post that’ll be out next month. I love writing short pieces for the same reason I love reading them. . .they’re like tasty snacks that whet the appetite. Snacks never bore me and always leave me...
Drawing Out Words
Sketching helps me write. Yesterday I sketched characters from a YA novel I’ve been sending out. I’ve always had a light hand, so these didn’t scan so well. Which begs the question: when the way you work (and, in this instance, work means doodle) isn’t compatible with the current...
Here’s What I’m Thinking
I’ve figured out how to get feeds from my blog, under our bootsoles, to show up in the sidebar of this site. For that blog, as the title suggests, I draw inspiration from the world I ramble through. I fancy myself like Walt Whitman, with way less free time and a...