Where I’ve been

Hello, world! It’s certainly been a while since I posted anything here (so much shame!). It’s just that 2017 was such a big year for me. I bought my first house! I quit my job of seven years and started a new one! I completed another successful NaNoWriMo and wrote A LOT of words throughout the year. But being caught up in all of that meant that my blogging ended up falling off a bit. But now I find myself wanting to come back to it. Why? Because I have OTHER big plans for 2018, and I hope to document it all here.

So until I get started on those plans, I’d thought I’d keep you up to date on some of the things I have been writing. Because I’ve been doing plenty of blogging, but just not here. Below you can find a list for all of my posts on the fanzine Speculative Chic. That includes my regular monthly column (where I talk about books, comics, fiction serials, and even video games and music), as well as my contributions to group columns. There are the Sound Offs, which are (mostly) reviews of current movies, Roundtables, where we share our thoughts on a particular topic, and My Favorite Things where we talk about our speculative favs. Interestingly enough, I also used to edit My Favorite Things, but dropped it when 2017 got too overwhelming. The column still exists, but as a solo column (I even did one this November!).

So until I start getting new material up here, check out the following links:

Monthly Columns
January- Psychic Romances and Passive Protagonists: A Review of Connie Willis’s Crosstalk
February- Wonder Woman Comics: Five Suggestions for New Readers
March- Shaking up the Genre: A Review of Mishell Baker’s Borderline
April- “The Flow of Time is Always Cruel”: On Finally Finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
May- Doomed Love: Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Failure of Relationships in Superhero Comics
June- Television in Book Form: A Review of the Serial Bookburners
July- Reading the Hugos: Best Graphic Story
August- Magic at the Vatican: Bookburners Levels Up in Season Two
September- Women of DC Rebirth
October- Give Brains a Chance: Five Reasons Why You Should Check Out the White Trash Zombie Series
November- A Team Divided: The Serial Bookburners Goes Big and Small in Season Three and My Favorite Things with Nancy O’Toole Meservier
December- One Nerd + One Violin = Endless Possibilities: An Introduction to the Music Videos of Taylor Davis