This is my first trip on my own since I found out I was pregnant with my five-year-old son, so I suppose I’m due, even though I miss my children already. I was hoping to write on the plane, but that’s unlikely to happen as there’s a baby behind me. I’m so programed to hearing [...]

Those of you who follow me on Twitter know I joke about Attention Deficit Disorder a lot. In reality, there’s nothing funny about ADD, and I have a fairly severe case of it. Once I was diagnosed and medicated, things got much easier for me and I was able to focus (and finish things) in [...]

I’m naturally introspective. I think, usually too often and too much, analyzing everything. This is especially true of milestones and anniversaries, and the process of writing the end of Counterpoint has been no different. In many ways, Counterpoint is the greatest gift my involvement in fic has given me. It started as a simple writing [...]

This year, the fug orange and black jacket gets a rest. Instead I’ll be donning an equally fug skirt and and hoodie. I never thought I’d say these words, but I’d rather wear the beer jacket. What does this have to do with anything, you ask? Despite the fact I’m planning to give finishing the [...]

When I was a recent college graduate, I took a job with a major cell phone carrier. After 9/11, more people than I could count came into my office in tears, wondering if there was a way to retrieve voice mail messages even though the phones (much like the people to whom they belonged) were [...]

It’s a warm, wet Monday in Philadelphia and I sit here pounding through some of my Fandom Gives Back pieces. I auctioned off 190,000 words for Alex’s Lemonade Stand; I have 177,000 left to write. I guess I should get on that. I’m frequently asked about my update schedule for Counterpoint and Some Little Girls. [...]

There are people who set out to change the world, who have lofty aspirations, whose reaches exceed their grasps. Then there those who resolve themselves not to change. They wake up each morning unashamed about who they are and in remaining true to themselves, do change the world.