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Read more about the article Now Kickstarting: From Dream to Reality

Now Kickstarting: From Dream to Reality

Happy February! I've been enjoying the bright (yet cold) sunshine here in Portland, and am very excited about the sun not setting at 4:30pm anymore. I'm also excited because my latest nonfiction book from Microcosm Publishing is currently in the Kickstarter phase! We're about halfway through the Kickstarter, and halfway through the goal — and my editor just emailed to say the book just went off to the printer. :) Can't wait to see it! So. What's this new book, you ask? From Dream to Reality is basically a very detailed, expanded version of the spiel I'd give you if you…

Read more about the article From Chaos to Creativity Kickstarter is a Go!

From Chaos to Creativity Kickstarter is a Go!

I look around, and I'm surrounded by creative people. My mom makes these amazingly artistic quilts. My dad welds incredible works of art and invents ingenious farm contraptions. My sister does intricate cross-stitch hangings. My husband takes stunning photographs. My friends write and paint and dance and sing. My neighbor's 8-year-old kid asked for bricks and wood and cement this Christmas so he could build things in the backyard. They're all creating art. I'm assuming you're also creative, because I have yet to meet someone who doesn't have some sort of creative passion. And I've never heard anyone say they…

Read more about the article Pedal Zombies Kickstarter – get your copy now!

Pedal Zombies Kickstarter – get your copy now!

I was on a road trip with my husband last summer when I checked email on my phone, and saw Elly Blue's latest call for submissions. It was for her third volume of feminist bicycle science fiction, Bikes in Space, and the theme was zombies. I groaned. Zombies? I hate zombies. I had stories in both Bikes in Space Volume 1 and Volume 2 (you can read my stories for free on my free stories page), but . . . Zombies? "Just imagine all the cool zombie-fighting bike gear you could have," said my husband, a bike company rep. "You…