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Tenacity Is Now Available

Just a quick update that Tenacity is now available for purchase at these outlets: Amazon Apple store Barnes & Noble Bedazzled Ink  Kobo Vivlio Others will be updated as they go live. If you are in Massachusetts, look for it in your library’s network. Or request it. Bookstores, too, can carry it. Just ask! More […]

Tenacity Sneak Peek

Tenacity launches on June 4. You can preorder now on Amazon or, you know, wait and I’ll have links to other retailers like Bookshop.org, where, to be honest, I buy my print books that I can’t get locally. Tenacity is a sequel to Endurance. I’d like to think it stands alone, but just in case, […]

Writing Prompt: Code

I haven’t posted one of these in a while. As a refresher, monthly I participate in a writing group where we pull a prompt from an envelope (yes, the old fashioned way) and write for 30 minutes. Then we read to each other what we wrote. I used to freeze like a rabbit in a […]

Artist representation of a small cargo space plane with Earth and clouds below. Black and white with wings. Name on the side: Dream Chaser Tenacity. Small American flag on the side.

What’s in a Name?

Naming my last book Endurance was easy. I had been inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure (misadventure) aboard his own Endurance. I even made the story time match the length of time he and his crew were stranded. I decided, however, not to destroy the ship. Honestly, his real story was so improbable that I […]

“I’m Somebody Now!”

I’ve been sitting on some news. I haven’t posted in a long time because I’ve been busy. You see, last fall I finished the sequel to Endurance. I sent it off to my publisher—you might have heard their squeals of joy. I signed the contract before they’d finished reading it, which made me very nervous. […]

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Free Story for Halloween

For the heck of it, here’s a freebie. It’s also in my collection, A Perfect Life and Other Stories. A Certain Moon Ann dusted shelves that were already dust-free, plumped previously plumped pillows, and ignored the disdainful look her cat gave her. She checked the clock for the fifth time in the last ten minutes. […]

Endurance Is a Winner!

In my first draft I buried the “lede,” so I’ll get it right out there: Endurance won a very nice Science Fiction/Fantasy award from the Golden Crown Literary Society. It comes with a very nice cash prize, too. I am, of course, thrilled. Endurance was also a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice award, […]

Endurance Is a Finalist!

I found out last night that Endurance is a finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. This may not be a “big” award, but it’s one of the few groups devoted to promoting sapphic and women-loving-women literature, especially by small presses and indie authors. The big outfits, like Lambda Literary, […]

Asian chinese mid adult female astronaut looking at earth through window from spaceship at outer space

Writing Prompt: Solstice

I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been busy working on a novel. Go figure. But here’s a ditty I wrote with my group just yesterday. Very stream of consciousness—I had no idea where I was headed. But l like it and could see it fleshed out sometime in the future. But for now, enjoy… […]

Writing Prompt: Table

I wrote this a few months ago, but it’s stuck in my mind as a favorite. Written in 30 minutes, little editing, pretty much made it up as I went along. Edited to add: Wait, I posted this in June? That’s what I get for one cup of coffee! Hello, 2023! The table sat in […]

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