So! Fun news first: for the first time in a year and a half, I have a day job again. Yay! Trust me, the nonprofit world is BRUTAL right now for trying to get a gig in Seattle specifically. Don’t bother. There were 600 applicants for every 1 position in some cases. So. I went back to the corporate world (boo!) but for a truly cutting edge sci-fi company (yay!) doing people-y things (I understand the first few sentences of the theory before my brain goes to mush.)

With that said, my writing may slow down a bit, I won’t be quite as available to teach or coach, but I think this is the right move for me in this time. It’s a great team, at a really darn cool place, and we’ll see how long I can ride that wave. I HAVE sold 6 new stories, have a bunch that are in second round reading right now, and at last count…2 plays, 8 novels, and 5 novellas in the works, so don’t count me out just yet!

But now you want to know what I’ve been reading over the long silence since my last post. Well:

I recently read all of Charlie Jane Anders’ work, even the ARC of the sequel of her YA, and let me tell you…I’m working on a whole post just about her. For now, the rest of what I’ve been reading and enjoying is below. As always, any books I read and can’t stand go quietly into the night…

Nonfiction

• Lady Killers by Tori Telfer
• Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
• Writer to Writer by Gail Carson Levine
• The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maas
• Spellbound by Beauty by Donald Spoto
• The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger

Spec Fic

• The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
• The Awesome by Eva Darrows
• S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst
• Warlock Holmes by G.S. Denning
• Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger
• Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
• Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Victories Greater than Death and Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo and the sequels by P. Djeli Clark
• You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• The Hearts we Sold by Emily Lloyd Jones
• Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes
• Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
• Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
• Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey
• Rocks Fall Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar
• Curses by Lish McBride
• Stephen King’s The Shining
• Oil and Dust by Jami Fairleigh
• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix