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Everything I’ve Written in One Database (Including Free Titles!)

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I’ve been working with Airtable lately, which is a platform where you can really do all kinds of things with, but what I’ve done with it the past few days is put together a database of everything I’ve written that’s available somewhere (whether to buy or read for free). It also features a nice little workflow showing where various books are at in the process of getting them published. For example, right now it has a new novel at the

Dear Past Self: I Know You’re Scared You’re Gay. You’re Going to Be Okay

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Dear past self, I don’t have a specific iteration of you in mind right now, but I imagine early twenties you is who will likely hear this best. So, hi me. You’re gay. This is really hard for you to hear, I know. You started noticing your attraction to girls when you were 14 and it scared you. All through high school, you kept a tight lid on it, trying to eradicate from yourself these thoughts and feelings. You told

Plunged Ashore is Now Out!

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It’s here! Plunged Ashore is now available for purchase! *happy dance* Here’s all the info: Plunged Ashore

The Making of Plunged Ashore (aka New Book Out Soon!)

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I don’t know about you, but when I dream, I have some places that show up in my dreams over and over. Some are real (or the dream version of real) locations. Others are unique to dreamland. When I was a teenager, I had several dreams where I was in an underwater cavern or grotto (and could breathe underwater, in case anyone was concerned!). That’s really all that happened in most of them; I swam around in the grotto and

Revisiting The Illuminated Heart: We are not Alone

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Seven years ago, I wrote and published The Illuminated Heart and, seeing as it’s 2020, it seems appropriate for some hindsight. *waits until the groans subside* In case you don’t know, I wrote The Illuminated Heart during Camp NaNoWriMo, which is the summer edition of National Novel Writing Month (November), so I find it a propos that The Illuminated Heart is in a Storybundle during Camp NaNo. I mention this partly because cool timing and partly because I’m finding myself