An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Now that the release of Hell Moon (Xeno-Spectre, Book 1) is imminent, we’d like to announce the release of its first sequel, The Ancient Egg (Xeno-Spectre, Book 2) by Mary E. Lowd.
Readers of this series won’t have long to wait between book 1 and 2, as The Ancient Egg will be released on January 1, 2024. And it’s already available for pre-order on Kindle. Continue reading “Announcing The Ancient Egg, Xeno-Spectre Book 2!”
State of mind: saw a picture of a plush moth on my computer screen and started talking directly to it like, “Hello there little one, who are you? What are you doing here?”
So… probably should stop trying to be useful for today and just focus on not ordering piles of plushies.
I’m working on figuring out the order of the poems in my poetry book and have discovered the underlying truth about the nature of poems.
There are four fundamental kinds of poems: Continue reading “Types of Poem”
I got a cover blurb written for my upcoming book Xeno-Spectre 2. Feeding the book into Claude helped get a start, but it still took a lot of editing.
Seriously, though, writing cover blurbs should definitely be robot work. I’ve always hated writing those. Continue reading “Writing Book Blurbs”
Triumph! I reached level 100 in Diablo 4!
Meaning I can craft every kind of incense, meaning I got the title “Sage” to go along with “Desert,” so… Continue reading “Reclaiming Dessert Sage”
The moment when you realize a poem can be as important as a novel.
Or maybe more important.
And worse, that you’ve been a fool for not knowing that all along.
I think…
I have decided to like poetry.
Not most poetry. I don’t like most of anything, even sci-fi space shows. Continue reading “Poetry”
In three hours, I get to meet an octopus!
Best thing from the behind-the-scenes tour at the Oregon Coast Aquarium:
I just told Claude, an AI writing assistant, that I was thinking of writing a space opera novel about an otter and asked if it had any ideas for the name of the main character. It suggested: Continue reading “Getting Suggestions from AI”
I remember arguing with my parents and teacher at about the age of ten as to whether I needed to memorize my times tables given that I could always just use a calculator.
I did not memorize my times tables. Calculators are awesome. This has never hurt me.
Also, I minored in math at a top tech college. So, it’s not like I can’t do math.