Rape Culture and Writing
You may have guessed from my tagline: Writer of kick ass women and oogy monsters, that I like strong female characters. I've read a lot of books in my lifetime…
Oogy Monsters: Penanggalan
The name itself should cause shivers to roll down your spine. (How many G’s are in it? N’s? My god, where do they all go?) The penanggalan is a type…
Skunkblog
Thanks for visiting! Just for you, here's a sneak peek at my upcoming book, The Bug Queen: Vedalia Kirkaldy studied the directions on the insecticide, understanding in the deepest part…
Staying True: A Writer’s Guide
Writing is a crazy thing. It’s exhilarating and at the same time spectacularly good at jabbing fingers into the open wounds of your inadequacy. Why can’t I write like that?…
Amy: A Kick Ass Woman and Hero
By Elle Boca, author of the Miami urban fantasy Weeia Series Amy McKnight, new superhuman, is just right for the job of superhero. She doesn’t want it. Someone who…
Five Ways to Ruin Your Novel
Writers are always trying to make their novels better. BORING! Why make it better when you can make something so bad it’s good? Stop spending all those hours mulling over…
Review of The Storm Prince by M. L. John
My first thought when getting to the words, “The End,” was what? It can’t be over. 155 pages knocked out in an instant because this is a story that will…
Write Like Hemingway
There are tons of writing books out there and they all promise to fix, improve, enlighten, and empower you to write better, faster, more seriously, funnier, scarier, wilder. Whatever you…
A Year of Writing Every Day
Yeah, you read that right. I wrote every day for an entire year. What? No way. I also logged a total of 1,381,574 words in that very same year. Holy crap.…
Kick Ass Woman: Jane Yellowrock
A few years ago, my friend Kat said, "Jen, you have to read this book. You'll love it." She was right. That book was Skinkwalker by Faith Hunter. Now she's…