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I ordered a couple of used books for myself, because I Deserve A Treat. The first one came last Wednesday, and I dove right into it. When I got close to the end, a little, irregular scrap of paper fell out. Smaller than my palm, it had been written on after it was torn. Tiny, faint pencil letters. After I took my glasses off and squinted, I read:

You are the sunrise / Outshine the moon at night / Precious like starlight / (The Nightmare shall be over now; there's nothing more to fear)

“A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.”

Patreon Rebooted and “Dark Dossier”

In spite of the state of the world, I’m hammering away at my writing as best I can. At long last, I sold a few books through my Alibris store, which I’d started toward the beginning of the pandemic and I’ve added a few new titles to it. A few years back, I opened a Patreon account, where I’ve posted a few things, mostly alternate takes of stories or cut scenes, but I’ve added a few stories not…