Of cancer. At age 70. I’m going to more remember this day for two other images: the implosion of a defunct Trump casino in Atlantic City, and the utter failure of the deregulated Texas power grid. But all three news items are intricately linked into a larger problem: America’s self delusions smacking face first into…
Read More Rush Limbaugh is dead…Are nearly done. Two days before I have to drop them off, nearly a year since I volunteered to do them, and at least six months after I intended to finish them. Life in a pandemic, eh? You’d think it would give us more time to finish things. But my job never locked down, and…
Read More Panels for The Violet Protest Project…Warning: linked content definitely Not Safe For Work, and includes graphic homosexual sex. On this momentous day, with the future of American democracy battered but still intact, I honestly can’t think of a better way to annoy (some) rightwing hypocrites today, than self-publishing a piece of *extremely gaaaayyy* erotic romance. After six months or so,…
Read More MAESTRO Reboot (Adult Content)That’s it, that’s the post. The only president so far in US history to be impeached TWICE.
Read More Donald J. Trump Impeached AgainI had to wait three days to even *start* writing this. I am that angry. I am a white woman of a certain age, so I have tons of privilege. I could dress and speak the parts, and blend right into at least two levels of the mob that just literally *shat* in the halls…
Read More The Republican (Attempted) CoupAnother year, another round of self-published stuff. Now I’m playing with a digitally altered and painted cover for my contemporary M/M erotic romance MAESTRO, while I add to that short 16K story. I needed brownstone houses. Fortunately, the Phoenix area has some, so I made a fool of myself getting shots of several at night.…
Read More New covers for ‘Maestro’2020 sucked. The few bright spots cannot compensate for the vast amounts of suckage. It has sucked so badly that it will undoubtedly poison at least half of 2021, too. I am grateful for those bright spots. Really. So I will use them as the most fragile of platforms as I look ahead. We voted…
Read More Looking Back, Looking AheadI like glowing things. A few weeks back I ventured (gloved, masked and with Lysol & large plastic tubs waiting in the truck) to a local Goodwill store. I needed cheap cotton work clothes. While there, I found this lamp. For half off the listed price. It’s a 9×4 inch Hollywood Regency style crystal boudoir…
Read More Fae Lamp, Finished!MIRRORMAZE is a very cool anthology with a deft literary framework surrounding the diverse stories. It’s a dreampunk anthology of mind-melting SFF from editor Cliff Jones Jr. and Fractured Mirror Publishing, released on December 8, 2020. I’ve read the galley, and now I have print copies in my hands. The anthology is a great collection…
Read More Mirrormaze has launchedI’m building covers for the self-published version of my M/M erotic romance space opera MORO’S PRICE. Bear in mind, I’m still finessing the art placement and text on both covers. Cover #1 links in some themes from the story (faceted diamond, star-field, male fighter in silhouette), but I still think it looks a little too…
Read More New Covers for Moro’s PriceSince the first week of November I have had to listen to Christmas music at work. First, I enjoy Christmas. The lights on winter nights, the spectacle, the food, the myriad messages of hope for humanity. This year more than *ever*, we need to hold on to delight and peaceful interactions. I even like most…
Read More I roast Christmas SongsAfter getting the rights back recently, I’m self-publishing my 103,000-word fantasy quest novel THE PURIST through Draft2Digital. When his wife is outcast from humanity, the last bard of a dying race thwarts a secret war and ancient gods to rejoin her. I made some minor revisions from the version that came out in summer 2018…
Read More Republishing THE PURISTAfter five satisfactory years, NineStar Press and I are temporarily parting ways. I’ve enjoyed working with this vital LGBTQIA publisher, and plan to do so again with new work in the future. That means that my space opera MORO’S PRICE, my fantasy THE PURIST, and my contemporary erotic romance MAESTRO are temporarily unavailable, until I…
Read More Unpublished and PublishedBackstory: there’s a virtual gallery opening today that I’d wanted to attend, at a specific time. I have artwork in this show, I’m proud of the work, and I love the gallery. I also am lucky enough in the midst of a pandemic to *have a FT job with benefits*. It’s nearing the end of…
Read More Artists explaining themselvesFrom 1995 (when I started the needlepoint central panel) comes the wall tapestry ‘Hanging Garden’. This was a fun piece to do, beginning with a dream and a sketch in 1994, of a fantasy garden and a tree stretching from the ground to above the clouds. (Yes, I already had the dizzyingly tall gir-trees of…
Read More Old projects revisited: Hanging GardenFor my ongoing theme of ‘Taking Back Red’, here’s an old fiber art project that is calling for a reboot, possibly as a book art sculpture: 1994’s ‘Southron Sampler’, a small 14×9″ (ish) fiber art wall hanging donated to an Arizona science fiction convention charity auction to benefit a local literacy group. If this piece…
Read More Old projects revisited: Southron SamplerDonald J. Trump lost. Now in addition to being a *known* conman, grifter, liar, coward, cheater, bully, racist, semiliterate ignoramus, incompetent businessman, serial adulterer, serial rapist, malignant narcissist, and likely traitor… He is that thing he feared most. A loser. Exposed as a loser. I don’t hold out much hope that the majority of his…
Read More US 2020 ElectionsIf anyone is coming here as a result of the Art Quilts show, the Fire Mountain seed bead contest, or TusCon 2020 (or anyone but trolls and bots, really), please bear with me. An update caused a few problems, which I hope to fix in a few days. To paraphrase the late great Douglas Adams,…
Read More Wonky site, bear with meWell, my very outspoken needling of Trump & his Trumpculties on Twitter has resulted in my *second* account throttling, this time for six days. So if you don’t see me on Twitter this week, posting or answering, that’s why. Yes, I did say that specific Trump proxies should be ‘chomping Oxy by the dozen.’ I…
Read More Second Twitter ban!From here I cannot see two oceans. Standing astride this ridge, one foot Touching sunset The other, night. On each side, cool winds taste the same. From here I see no difference between Factory or farm, trailer or mansion, No hint of hand or ideology behind The lights that in distant valleys bloom. Thrumming…
Read More Continental Divide