If you’re like me, you’re entering this brand new year with hopes that it will not suck as much as the previous two years. So far we don’t have a lot of indicators in that direction, as my email is crammed full of nervous announcements about classes going online, cons and festivals being canceled, and7…
Tag: fiction
Nifty review and upcoming event at Millstadt Library
I’m looking forward to the first event of 2022, which is the Millstadt Library Author Fair. Millstadt is in the process of expanding and will be running a referendum to build a new library soon, and I’m happy to be one of more than 20 authors who will be signing and speaking at the author…
“Fever” is published!
I wasn’t expecting the annual publication of the River Bluff Review until early spring, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that it’s already live on the interwebs! River Bluff Review is a student-edited literary magazine, and only recently made the transition from print to all-digital. I was honored that they selected my short story…
December linkspam
Happy holidays! I am delighted to announce that I will be an adjunct instructor at St. Louis University beginning in the spring semester. Yes, probably the last thing I needed was a fifth job, but I’m very excited to be teaching journalism again. Never fear, I am continuing in my assistantship at SIUE teaching English…
October Linkspam
Happy Halloween season! This newsletter is late! And that’s because we had such a spectacular time at Archon that we are still recovering three days later. Folks, I’m getting too old for these shenanigans. Archon is our hometown con, and it was a delight to be back after last year’s cancellation and see so many…
Farewell, old friend.
This wasn’t exactly how I’d intended to christen my new website, but here we go: as of July 31, my oldest title Setting Suns will be going out of print. Setting Suns wasn’t my first book, but it was the first to appear in paperback. Way back in the dawn of the ebook era, my…
And the winner is…
Me! I’m pleased (almost) beyond words to announce I have been honored with the Mimi Zanger Award for fiction writing. This is an award granted by the English Department at Southern Illinois University, where I have begun my coursework for an MFA in creative writing (in case you’ve missed all the other references to my…
Book birthday!
I’m happy to announce that my new Blackfire novella, Yanaguana, is now unleashed on the world courtesy of Crone Girls Press. It walks along the San Antonio river, and it carries all your fears in its grasp. Paul Vaughn and the Blackfire team have been summoned after several mysterious deaths, because that’s what they do….
Elizabeth, what are you going to do when you grow up?
Since I let it slip on the radio last week, I might as well go public. Shenanigans are afoot. Recap for those playing along at home: I left daily journalism in 2018 to pursue my masters degree in media studies while launching a freelance career. This turned out to be quite a few eggs in…