News:

Rescuing Curiosity, a WriteHive anthology, with my story “Marginalia,” came out on Tuesday. You can find it here.

Works in Progress:

In the last few days, I’ve committed to editing more pages of Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6), because I can’t keep going at this slow pace while watching my world burn and accomplish things in a timely fashion. My daily goal is around 20 pages (single-spaced), which isn’t entirely accurate, because I cut a lot of words on the way, so I’m actually editing more pages than that, I’m just editing them down to 20 pages. Aiming to finish the first round by the end of the weekend, then finishing the second round within a week or less. Still puts me about half a month behind, which disappoints me.

However, I’m sure the second round will be smoother and faster. I’m cutting a lot of words. I remember struggling a bit while writing this one and typing my way out of those struggles, so there’s a lot of extraneous verbiage. I’ve cut about 14K from 111K so far, and I’m only a little over halfway through.

Books I’m Reading:

The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause

Things I’m Listening To:

Dracula Reborn soundtrack
The Blacklist playlist
Hannibal playlist
Drift playlist
Singer-songwriter playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Lesbian Vampire Killers (Funny story about this one. I saw it in a video store at the mall years and years ago, well before I was old enough to see it. I’d never even imagined watching an R movie at that time, so it intrigued me so much. It’s amusing how cheesy bad fun it is now that I finally watched it.)
To Catch a Killer
Love is Blind series (I tried to watch this for something mindless, but I’m DNFing it at 2.5 episodes. I don’t understand why I’m supposed to care about any of these people or yet another pretty people dating show. Plus, I can’t tell most of them apart.)
Reacher series
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
Watson series
The Hunting Party series
NCIS series
Queer Eye series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series