Monthly Archives: December 2011

2011 Published Short Fiction

Seeing as we’re close to the end of 2011 and it’s unlikely I’ll have anything else published this calendar year, now is as good a time as any to recap the short fiction I’ve had published in the last twelve months. Self-promotion is so totally not my thing. Jaym Gates recent Inkpunks post about awards [...]

Three Years

We’d been in California for a few days and the previous night at my work Christmas party. Three years ago this morning, we flew to Las Vegas. One of us (not me) was airsick as we landed in the middle of a sand storm. Ironic, because this was literally a whirlwind. Work put us up [...]

Why insider trading by members of Congress is worse than it sounds

If you had asked me if members of Congress were exempt from insider trading before today, I would have said yes, of course. I would have argued that, with the kinds of information that our congressmen and -woman are privy to, they especially should not be allowed to use non-public information to trade stock for [...]

Fail. Fail Harder. Fail Better.

NaNoWriMo is over. I failed to win. I failed, but there are lessons in failure. I set out to do a few things aside from writing 50k words. I wanted to learn to turn off my internal editor when I needed to, so that I could write first drafts on the computer. I wanted to [...]