the archives

Category: dispatches from the loony bin

  • Why I’m pro-life.

    You’re probably reading this post because you think I’m going to blog about how immoral it is for uterus-bearing people to have any sort of determination over their own lives, because I think that a fetus’ life matters more than a grown person’s. I’m not. That’s not what pro-life means. That’s what people in the…

  • Writer’s Bucket List, Revisited

    A while ago I posted a writer’s bucket list for myself. I decided that for today’s post, I would revisit it and see how much progress I’m making. Publish 4 novels. I’ve got at least that many as WIPs currently, so this should be “easy” to do (nothing about writing is easy). Finish a short…

  • Bellica’s new cover

    So, I released a cover a while back that was still tugging at me, saying “No, no, I need more, preciousssssss.”  (Yeah, I don’t just have characters telling me what to do — I have covers as well.) I realized it was missing green. I’d always envisioned Bellica as a green covered book, and then…

  • Rainy Fall Friday

    I was walking home from my friend’s house (she gave me a partial ride home from school; we only live a block away) and in my alleyway a tree has shed its summer skin. There was a meadow made on the asphalt, all yellow, orange, red, brown. Leaves everywhere. Not dead, not alive — hovering…

  • Friday Five: things that happened in the past two weeks

    List not comprehensive. I got totally swamped with work. I burned a Thanksgiving turkey beyond all recognition. Once I got through the blackened shell, however, there was delicious meat. I got back into school, 5 weeks into the semester. Had to cram half a semester’s knowledge into my brain on Tuesday and Wednesday for my…

  • Friday Five: Five Banned (or challenged!) Books, in no particular order

    I am only listing books I have actually read in this list. For a bigger list of banned or challenged books, I recommend checking out the ALA’s website. It’s probably impossible to get a comprehensive list, but they do a good job nonetheless. 1984, by George Orwell. A novel about a dystopian future, so naturally…

  • Whatever Wednesday: Banned Books Week and full disclosure about my adolescence

    This is cross-posted from katjevanloon.com.  September 24th through October 1st is Banned Books Week. Over the years, many books and writers have been banned or challenged — for political reasons or just some vague feeling of “needing to protect the children”. Until this year, I’d never sought to read a banned book. Then I decided…

  • Writer Wednesday: 2011 Banned Books Week and full disclosure about my adolescence

    September 24th through October 1st is Banned Books Week. Over the years, many books and writers have been banned or challenged — for political reasons or just some vague feeling of “needing to protect the children”. Until this year, I’d never sought to read a banned book. Then I decided I’d try and find one,…

  • In which I bitch about Facebook’s changes (you knew this would happen sooner or later)

    Facebook recently changed everything again, without asking its users (again) or seemingly thinking about how to make things better (again). I’m reminded of the de-motivational poster that shows a comic of two pigs, talking about how their home is free and all the food is even paid for! The caption reads “Facebook: you’re not the…

  • Fiction Friday: tales of my travels

    I’ve been travelling since yesterday, when I caught an 8:30 ferry to Vancouver from Nanaimo. Mom picked me up and we then drove down to Bellingham, where Village Books is. As publishers, we had business there — they have an EBM, and it’s cheaper per page to print there than it is to print in…