Random Musings

Category: writing

  • I still hate cauliflower.

    I’ve wanted to write something since the event ended but I haven’t been able to create coherent thoughts. So I think I’ll do a list, as an old friend taught me to do when the words aren’t flowing. Community is good. A community of old friends is even better. People…

  • The big event is this weekend

    If you know me, you know I’m super awkward and I sweat a lot when I’m around big groups of people. Not super-sexy, for sure. But this year, that may be different. Because the 11th Annual Bold Strokes Book Festival (this year refered to as a Bookathon), is virtual. I…

  • Screaming on the roof

    I wanted to write something fun, something uplifting. But I simply can’t. Not today. It’s June, 2020. Half the year is gone. It began with vast, terrible fires in Australia that devastated the country. Not long after, the first cases of coronavirus appeared in China. The UK withdrew from the…

  • Will you hang out with me?

    On June 6th-7th, I’m going to be one of twenty five authors doing an lgbtq online book festival. It would be really great if you’d come along, and maybe tell your friends to come hang out with the cool author-kids as well. We’d love to share stuff about our books,…

  • Another year, another lgbtq book festival

    Every year we have an lgbtq book festival in Nottingham. It’s two days of authors, books, fun. It’s meeting up with old friends and meeting new ones, and it’s a community that reminds you not only are you not alone, you’re also represented in books, where the queer characters aren’t…

  • Just call me imposter broccoli

    You know when you’re expecting cake, and hoping for cake, but then you get broccoli? And not good broccoli, but rather dried out, old broccoli? Know that feeling? That’s kind of what you get when you’re around me. Dried out broccoli. I’ve never been good at the social thing. I’m…

  • Fading Away

    I’m not alone in this, as I’ve come to realise from reading other friend’s writings, so I’m going to sigh my own thoughts into the open too, so you know you’re not alone if you feel this way. I don’t want to be forgotten or left behind. It’s that simple,…

  • Your Feelings are Valid

    Stop comparing yourself to other people. Seriously. I’ve come across a lot of posts lately, and had some messages, too, from people who are having a hard time coping with the world as it is right now. But they then go on to say ‘but there are people who have…

  • The good stuff

    I’m not sure what there is to say that hasn’t been said. The conversation about the pandemic is widespread and covers so many issues. People seem to be either scared, or not nearly scared enough. Personally, I’m scared. But in a rational, logical way. A pandemic virus killing thousands is…

  • Hot stories from fabulous authors.

    My first short story was published in an erotica anthology. I’d gone to GCLS, a conference celebrating lesbian fiction, and it opened up a whole world I didn’t know about. Kind, friendly, generous author Lori Lake convinced me to submit a story to a forthcoming anthology. I’d had a few…