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What would you tell a friend you haven’t seen for a year?

Updated January 2026

  • I hosted a SFWA writing date to kick off the year! Enjoyed meeting new writers and talking to some writers I’ve known from around the internet.
  • We turned in a 3.75 draft of Your World or Mine with some excellent fine-tuning suggested by Dylan.
  • I’m spinning up an Urban Shadows campaign/series of short-shots with my regular TTRPG group. My character is going to be a himbo street racer from a wealthy family. Looking forward to causing problems…
  • I made a moto-hacked version of the Deer & Doe Safran pants in black cotton-spandex twill with some really fun details, including a back patch and custom labels. I’m down to one project in my WIP pile.
  • At home, we’ve been playing a lot of Betrayal at House on the Hill and Ticket to Ride on cozy nights in. I’m playing Hades 2, and taking a break from The Outer Worlds 2 for now.
  • I had a chance to collaborate with the amazing Izzy Wasserstein on a short story we’ve submitted for an anthology call. Fingers crossed!

December 2025

  • I had an amazing time in Ottawa for Can*Con 2025 in October. The panel on Alanna the Lioness and gender was a highlight, as was getting to hang out with the lovely people in the Canadian SFF scene.
  • I made the Decades of Style 1930s Kitchenette Pajamas in yarn-dyed cottons from Stonemountain & Daughter Fabrics.
  • We turned in draft 3.5 of Your World or Mine to Dylan one week early!
  • Kat & I received a couple rejections on the pieces we had out, but we’ve already submitted to the next venues on our list for each of them.
  • I’m reading Between Two Fires very slowly. I also recently really enjoyed this New Yorker piece on Neolithic archeology and this Counter Craft piece about philosophical literature.
  • My Nobilis campaign is wrapping this month; looking forward to playing World Ending Game with these PCs.
  • Between me, my kid, and my partner, we sorted what has to be 50 pounds of Legos and reorganized the Lego storage…this is a big deal in this house, believe me.

September 2025

  • Sewing projects have been slow, but I’m making the Deer & Doe Arum dress in a houndstooth viscose.
  • Brandon & I are putting a polish on the manuscript for Your World or Mine, our sci-fantasy worldhopping romance, with help from our new agent (! – haven’t gotten over that we have an agent), Dylan.
  • We’re also working on a new novel draft with our collaborator, Kat Weaver…no working title yet, but it’s a surreal, lush, epic fantasy romance with a love triangle that resolves in the OT3 of my heart and soul.
  • Kat and I have several short pieces on submission…fingers crossed!
  • My kid is in kindergarten! Can’t believe it. We’re reading the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, the Wayside School books, and, occasionally, The Hobbit, together.
  • My most recent read was Feast While You Can and it fully knocked me on my ass. I’m also slowly playing Expedition 33: Clair Obscur–what a beautiful game.
  • I’m playing a cowboy ghost rogue/ranger in a D&D 5e campaign and a medieval anchorite turned demigod in a Nobilis campaign.
  • Just got a new tattoo–black & gray gothic cathedral window–from Lauren at Love Struck

(This page follows the Now Pages concept, and was inspired by Brandon Crilly, who stole it from Kate Heartfield!)