#self published

I just published my first Cento poetry compilation, Weaving the Stories: Poetry as Spellcasting Arrangements.

This compilation is a roughly 30 page series of Cento arrangements crafted from the book Poetry as Spellcasting, which was edited by Lisbeth White, Destiny Hemphill, and Tamiko Beyer. This is being published with their consent, entirely free and attributed to each respective author.

2026 UPDATE:

There's now a recorded version on streaming (Youtube, Spotify, and Apple Music primarily) and free to download on Bandcamp!

If you don't have the time to check out the whole thing, at minimum listen to We Are: A Spell For Cracking Shells, which has the voices of myself and eight other dolls, collectively The Kallai for this piece :)

If you could read/listen to and share it, I’d be deeply grateful. The work is rooted in Black Transfeminism/Transfeminist Womanism, and is written with Black trans women in mind, although it has value for everyone - especially trans women.

Come become spellbound and help find yourself. 💖

So I get a lot of spam as an indie author with a social media presence. I get it on my TikTok, I get it in my email... and now I'm getting it in my Tumblr inbox.

This person has not read my book. Every detail on this comes from the blurb. And the "active readers" they're giving me "access" to are either just paid reviews, bots, or don't exist.

But if you're naive, and don't realize how predatory messages like this are, you might accidentally take them up on this nonsense, waste your money, and they'll move on to the next sucker.

QueerSpec

A Queer Speculative Fiction Anthology in Support of Trans Rights

Queer joy. Queer rage. Queer resilience.

Eight speculative fiction stories by queer Albertan writers explore these themes and so much more. Dive into fantasy, science fiction, alternative history, and paranormal tales starring characters such as knights, mages, a bisexual cowboy, a necrobotanist, a grumpy (and heroic) Scottish lesbian, and Edmontonian high schoolers fighting the arachnid threat.

In tumultuous times, queer people come together and persevere-whether in fiction or real life.

This is a charity anthology with 100% of the royalties being donated to a trans affirming legal fund to defend queer rights in Alberta.

Hello guys !

The newest issue of Catgirl Melange is available for preorder!

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Want a print copy or an audiobook? Good news, they're BOTH in the works! Less good news: we are a completely independent, brand spankin' new publisher and book production is both expensive and time intensive. The more support we get in spreading the word, the faster we can get the book out in other formats!

Maybe you've already read it (in which case thank you thank you thank you!!!!) or maybe this just isn't for you but you'd like to offer support to a small new writer because you think independent art is cool... Here's some ways to help out!

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#Adult, #Colorado, #Apocalypse, #Contemporary, #Summer Camp, #Girls Camp, #Queer, #Isolation, #Nuclear War, #Hope,

With summer winding down, the counselors at Camp Aspen Heart are counting the days until they go home to their own beds after weeks of songs and campouts and budding friendships. But a missing food delivery after the start of one of the last sessions sets off alarms in the isolated camp. With no easy way to contact the outside world Conifer, a survivalist who grew up going to the camp every summer before becoming a counselor herself, heads out to try and find out what is going on, only to be confronted with the unthinkable: a nuclear war has started, and they’ve been forgotten.  Conifer was raised to survive the end of the world. Any end of the world. Except this one, alone in the woods with over a hundred-fifty kids to save and only a handful of other young counselors to help her.

Camp Daze is a hopeful apocalypse story about an isolated summer camp just trying to make it through winter after the world ends.