Hey awesome,I think I've done nothing but travel or be sick for about 6 weeks (or more? what is time?), and I completely missed updating you. Bright side: I have so much to share! Also bright side: while I was gone, fall happened (is happening? again...

Hey awesome,I am doing my best to lean into joy, no matter how silly. My latest obsession: all the sassy baby pygmy hippos. I'm not going to lie to you - every time I see a clip of the latest one, Mars, absolutely refusing to go inside despite his ke...

Hey awesome,It is icky hot here. I have returned to my New England roots and shed any southern Louisiana and Texas conditioning I might have built up over two decades...and so, I haaaaaate the sweaty weather. Bring me sweater weather!Ugh. No because...

Hey awesome,It's June! Which means a couple of things: it's my birthday month, and it's Liberty Con time!You've likely heard me rave about Liberty Con before - it's run by Brandy and her incredible team, chock full of awesome folks, and one of my fav...

Hey awesome,It's spring, and I definitely just packed a full season's worth of spring adventures into a week and a half. Which means I both very much want a nap and also need to once more crawl into my writing cave.But before I re-become a writing go...

Hey awesome,How goes spring? We had a snowstorm last weekend...hopefully the last one of the season, but I'm not going to bet on it.Regardless of the weather, I'm in the midst of a genuinely epic re-read: David Weber's Norfressa series. I forgot how...

Hey awesome,What a wild week - is it just me, or are we all saying that more often? It's spring (ok, mostly, pretty sure it's going to be a hard freeze here tonight), and we're barreling toward the end of March. It's going to be April next week. What...

Hey awesome,You’re getting this a week early because I’m going straight from a convention this weekend to some family stuff next week and I don’t want to miss out on chatting with you this month.First up: Boskone! I’m heading into Boston today and ge...

Hey awesome,I hope your 2025 is off to as peaceful a start as humanly possible, and that you are safe in these wild times. It’s cold and occasionally snowy up here, but that’s seasonable for where I live. I have a lot of blankets, so I can’t complain...

Hey awesome,Sorry this email is a few days late - I finished and submitted a chonker of a book, and my brain swiftly exited my skull. I'm slowly recovering, and excited to tell you more about it soon! In the meantime, how are you spending the end of...