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  • November 14, 2025

    Loscon 51

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  • September 12, 2025

    2025 Hayward Local Authors Festival

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  • May 15, 2025

    South Bay Writers

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  • March 12, 2025

    Story Hour on 3/12

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  • March 8, 2025

    AAUW-Alameda Membership Luncheon

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  • February 20, 2025

    AAUW-Alameda Membership Luncheon

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  • January 22, 2025

    Story Hour on 1/22!

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  • December 1, 2024

    Local Lit & Critique Clinic

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  • July 23, 2024

    My Glasgow Foodie To-Do List: Updated!

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  • June 19, 2024

    Story Hour Hosting

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  • April 21, 2023

    Hayward Lit Hop!

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  • April 5, 2023

    Brooklyn Books & Booze

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  • April 1, 2023

    Pondering the Orb

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  • March 26, 2023

    SF in SF with Mia Tsai and Me! Sunday, March 26

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  • March 18, 2023

    Strong Women, Strange Worlds Book Fair

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  • March 17, 2023

    The Wizard's Homecoming Book Launch

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  • December 16, 2022

    Wings Unfurled Review at Big Indie Books!

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  • December 15, 2022

    Questions to Consider When Writing A Series

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  • December 14, 2022

    Monty's Book Reviews!

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  • December 13, 2022

    Worst Writing Advice I've Ever Received

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  • December 11, 2022

    The SFWA Weekly Writing Date

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  • December 8, 2022

    Psychoanalyze This! Please?

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  • December 7, 2022

    Wings Unseen Release Day & Launch Party Invite!

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  • December 7, 2022

    Story Hour

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  • December 6, 2022

    Wings Unfurled Blog Tour & Prize!

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  • December 4, 2022

    Strong Women, Strange Worlds

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  • December 4, 2022

    Shepherd Book List: The Best Speculative Fiction Books with Lyrical Prose

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  • November 25, 2022

    The Speculative Fiction Showcase

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  • November 3, 2022

    Preorder Wings Unfurled!

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  • July 25, 2022

    Cover Reveal for Wings Unfurled!

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  • July 21, 2021

    "She Could Be Me" Reappears at Bards And Sages Quarterly!

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  • July 21, 2021

    "Fresh Catch of the Day" now available in A Quiet Afternoon 2!

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  • March 30, 2021

    Wings Unfurled Flies in 2022!

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  • March 17, 2021

    Story Hour!

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  • February 19, 2021

    Listen to "Submission Caws" at the Centropic Oracle!

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  • February 2, 2021

    My 2020 Awards Eligible Short Stories

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  • January 27, 2021

    It's Only Vampire Published in FARK in the Time of COVID: The 2020 Fark Fiction Anthology!

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  • January 26, 2021

    Thlush-A-Lum Reprinted in It Calls From the Sky!

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  • September 15, 2020

    "Hobgoblin" Now Available in the Whigmaleeries & Wives' Tales anthology!

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  • August 8, 2020

    Empowering your Community: A Talk with WWS Chapter Leads

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  • July 22, 2020

    Story Hour on 7/22!

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  • June 30, 2020

    "Some Who Wander" now published by Intrinsick!

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  • June 30, 2020

    "An Inconvenient Quest" published in A Quiet Afternoon anthology!

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  • May 31, 2020

    Forming and Sustaining a Successful Writing or Critique Group Panel

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  • April 7, 2020

    Wishing for More Now Available in Helios Quarterly!

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  • March 5, 2020

    "What Scattered in the Wind" appears in Accolades!

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  • March 5, 2020

    FOGcon 2020!

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  • January 31, 2020

    "Treasure" Reprinted in Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2019!

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  • August 14, 2019

    My Dublin Foodie Hit List

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  • August 13, 2019

    Worldcon 2019 Appearances

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  • May 18, 2019

    Join me at the Nebulas Mass Autographing on 5/19!

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  • April 3, 2019

    Litquake Panel: Debut Authors--Fame and Fortune in Five Easy Steps

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  • April 3, 2019

    The Inaugural Parallel Lit

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  • March 8, 2019

    Where I'll be at Fogcon 2019

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  • January 27, 2019

    The Alameda Author Series

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  • October 14, 2018

    It Takes a Village: Pursuit of Publishing Panel at Litquake!

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  • August 17, 2018

    My Worldcon 76 Schedule!

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  • August 11, 2018

    Women Who Submit Lit Reading!

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  • July 28, 2018

    R-Dub Love Rolling Writers Reading

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  • July 18, 2018

    Nominate Wings Unseen for the Dragon Awards!

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  • May 31, 2018

    Literary Speakeasy

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  • May 17, 2018

    Nebulas Weekend 2018!

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  • March 19, 2018

    Moshin Vineyards Salon Series Reading!

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  • March 9, 2018

    FogCon Appearances 2018!

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  • January 25, 2018

    Catch me at the first ever Terra Incognita Reading on Thursday!

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  • January 17, 2018

    Nebula and Hugo Award Eligible Fiction for 2018

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  • December 6, 2017

    Order Your Autographed Gifts of Wings Unseen by 12/16!

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  • October 24, 2017

    Flywheel Press's Literally Series

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  • October 18, 2017

    The Speculative Fiction Cantina Livestream

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  • October 18, 2017

    At the Inkwell Reading

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  • October 16, 2017

    Dark Luminous Wings Pre-sale for $2.99!

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  • October 8, 2017

    Destroy all Cling-Ons with me at Con-Volution 2017!

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  • September 23, 2017

    An Afternoon of YA Fantasy

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  • September 20, 2017

    Becca Gomez Farrell & Friends

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  • September 19, 2017

    Nc Speculative Fiction Night

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  • September 18, 2017

    The NC Leg of the Wings Unseen Book Tour

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  • September 13, 2017

    Reading at Shades & Shadows in Los Angeles 9/16!

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  • September 10, 2017

    SF in SF

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  • September 2, 2017

    A Reading of the East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup Group

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  • August 27, 2017

    A Trilogy of Shivers

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  • August 24, 2017

    Wings Unseen Release Events

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  • August 24, 2017

    Wings Unseen Book Launch

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  • August 24, 2017

    Feminist Spec Fic Night

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  • August 11, 2017

    Little Letters on the Skin Reading

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  • August 3, 2017

    The Map for Wings Unseen is Released!

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  • July 17, 2017

    "Treasure" to appear in Dark Luminous Wings

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  • July 1, 2017

    The Swirl Suite Podcast!

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  • May 31, 2017

    Goodreads Giveaway of Wings Unseen through June 24!

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  • May 30, 2017

    My Next Reading & Story: "What Scattered in the Wind"

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  • May 27, 2017

    3 Days Left to Win Wings Unseen Through LibraryThing!

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  • May 16, 2017

    Wings Unseen available for Pre-Order!!

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  • March 9, 2017

    FogCon Appearances

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  • February 9, 2017

    CANCELLED: Reading at Moshin Vineyard's Salon Series for Writing Between the Vines!

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  • January 20, 2017

    Wings Unseen coming from Meerkat Press in August 2017!

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  • October 31, 2016

    Good Genes published at the Future Fire!

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  • October 24, 2016

    The Hydra Reading

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  • October 3, 2016

    "Good Genes" Forthcoming from the Future Fire!

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  • September 30, 2016

    Liminal Writers-in-Residence Reading

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  • September 29, 2016

    Literary Speakeasy

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  • September 9, 2016

    Fall Workshops at Liminal

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  • September 8, 2016

    "Mixed Signals, or, Learning How to Speak" Now Available!

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  • July 5, 2016

    Final Liminal Writers in Residence Reading

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  • June 2, 2016

    New Short Story Publication Forthcoming!

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  • May 27, 2016

    Liminal Center Reading

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  • February 23, 2016

    At the Inkwell's Leap Year Reading

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  • February 15, 2016

    The One Word Story Project: Free Fiction!

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  • January 23, 2016

    Review of the Novel Fox's Anthology I

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  • January 12, 2016

    The One Word Story Project

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  • December 15, 2015

    Need Gift Ideas? Give the gift of (my) fiction!

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  • September 20, 2015

    Review of Amélie: A New Musical

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  • August 25, 2015

    Attractive Unattractive Americans: How the World Sees America

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  • August 6, 2015

    Nonfiction Bragging: Guest Blogging for Localwise!

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  • August 6, 2015

    Ad Astra: The 50th Anniversary SFWA Cookbook for Sale!

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  • July 7, 2015

    Still Seeking Validity, or, Self-Worth Struggles for Bread-Eaters

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  • June 9, 2015

    Food, Drink, & Travel Blogging Has Moved!

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  • May 19, 2015

    WisCon 39 Appearances!

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  • January 13, 2015

    My Last Day Without You

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  • January 2, 2015

    "Thlush-A-Lum" is Available Now!

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  • December 1, 2014

    Last Day for the PULP Literature Kickstarter! And an interview with Thlush-A-Lum's Markella

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  • November 20, 2014

    Nonfiction Bragging--Bloomberg Businessweek Quote!

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  • October 14, 2014

    PULP Literature Issue #5 Preview *and* Kickstarter Campaign

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  • September 5, 2014

    "Thlush-a-lum" to be published in PULP Literature!

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  • August 27, 2014

    The General Hospital Fan Club Weekend - 2014, Available now!

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  • July 11, 2014

    The General Hospital Fan Club Weekend Yearbook 2013

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  • May 19, 2014

    Blog Hopping: Reminder to Read Up!

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  • May 12, 2014

    Blog Hopping today!

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  • January 27, 2014

    Have you read "Blow 'Em Down" yet?

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  • December 16, 2013

    "Warm Your Heart" Christmas Blog Tour from Astraea Press (and prizes!)

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  • December 9, 2013

    Nonfiction Bragging - An Insider's Guide to the General Hospital Fan Club Weekend

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  • November 13, 2013

    Friend Bragging

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  • October 18, 2013

    Review of Homeward Bound

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  • October 10, 2013

    Fiction Bragging—"Blow 'Em Down" released at Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

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  • September 30, 2013

    An Insider's Guide to the General Hospital Fan Club Weekend

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  • July 10, 2013

    My Aha Moment and a dramatic reading of "Sardines"

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  • June 7, 2013

    Food Writing Bragging: New Post at WRAL

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  • April 24, 2013

    Fiction Bragging Reminder: Last Week to get "Bother" for Free!

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  • April 15, 2013

    Review Bragging - New WRAL Post

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  • February 15, 2013

    Nonfiction Bragging: WRAL Village Burgers Review

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  • February 11, 2013

    Bother: Reprint 1

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  • January 14, 2013

    Winter Tales: The Readings

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  • December 17, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging: My Winning Cocktail, the Frosty's Chocolate Orange Martini at the Washington Duke Inn

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  • December 10, 2012

    Winter Tales Reading

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  • September 20, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging - WRAL Review of Munchez (Durham) *CLOSED*

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  • July 12, 2012

    Fiction Bragging—Feature Friday at Astraea Press

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  • June 7, 2012

    Review of Bandido's and Award Bragging—Carpe Durham and WRAL Out and About

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  • May 31, 2012

    Interview Bragging—Durham Magazine

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  • May 24, 2012

    Interview Bragging—Promoting Maya's Vacation

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  • May 17, 2012

    Fiction Bragging—Interview With Maya Holden

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  • May 10, 2012

    Review Bragging and Winners of Maya's Vacation!

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  • May 3, 2012

    Fiction Bragging - Win a copy of Maya's Vacation! Bonus: Listen to Me Read From It!

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  • April 26, 2012

    Fiction Bragging - Maya's Vacation

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  • April 19, 2012

    Fiction Bragging—Apocalypse

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  • March 15, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging: WRAL Out & About Review of Southern Rail

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  • February 23, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging—The Trickster

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  • February 16, 2012

    Fiction Bragging—She Could Be Me

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  • February 2, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging—I Wish I Were A Packrat

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  • January 26, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging—Front Porch at the Independent Weekly

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  • January 13, 2012

    Interview Bragging: WOW! Women on Writing!

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  • January 12, 2012

    Nonfiction Bragging: 604 West Morgan Review for WRAL Out and About

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  • January 5, 2012

    Fiction Bragging--Last Complaint

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  • December 27, 2011

    Maya's Vacation on sale for 99 cents!

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  • September 25, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • August 21, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • July 17, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • June 26, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • June 19, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • June 12, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • May 29, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • May 22, 2011

    Six Sentence Sunday

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  • May 1, 2011

    Character Interview Scavenger Hunt!

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  • April 21, 2011

    Watch me read from Bother!

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  • April 13, 2011

    Bull Spec #5 Launch and NC Speculative Fiction Night

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  • April 5, 2011

    Stellarcon 2011 and High Point, NC

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  • March 29, 2011

    Maya's Vacation Reading #2

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  • March 29, 2011

    Maya’s Vacation Reading #1

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  • March 22, 2011

    Maya's Vacation Book Launch Party

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  • March 14, 2011

    Check out Apocalypse

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  • February 28, 2011

    Upcoming Publications!

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  • August 13, 2010

    I'm in Durham Magazine!

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  • June 1, 2010

    She Could Be Me published at Flashes in the Dark

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  • May 11, 2010

    Thesis Fiction

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  • December 29, 2009

    Interview at The Muffin Blog and New Year's Blog Resolutions

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  • November 23, 2009

    The Hunt for the Mantress

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  • September 13, 2009

    North Carolina Literary Festival

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  • August 7, 2009

    American Idol Concert

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  • April 10, 2009

    30 Threads Blogger Bash

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  • March 23, 2009

    Religion is Making a Televised Comeback

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  • March 1, 2009

    The Receptionist

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  • February 16, 2009

    Strength of Character

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