[writer’s spa] building the writing life through #ketolife

I weigh 242 pounds. Yep. That is the weight that you saw me in the Self Publishing Roundtable. That’s a size 18 on my 5’9 frame. It looks good, still curvy and with breasts in the high/multiple consonant range. I feel like a round goddess. But this goddess also feels that tightness I feel in […]

[writing life] Sophomore Level UP, now with new covers!

When I released Daughter of the Flood last year, I commissioned a set of covers that I love absolutely and profoundly. They’re based on the art of Saul Bass, who did the art of Otto Preminger’s “Man with the Golden Arm” & “Anatomy of a Murder.”, shown below. I loved the movies, and the posters lit my heart ablaze during a time where I was studying art to escape the maddeningly sheltered world I was trapped in

[look book] Dr. Amani Phallo

Being the daughter of a seamstress, I love fleshing out and dressing my characters. It’s the closest thing I have to playing with dolls. This week, I sharing the simplest of my characters to dress, Dr. Amani “Manny” Phallo, The Director of the Center of Sanguine and Sentient Flora and Fauna Studies, AKA The Nursery. […]

[building allazar] getting my head right…

I am building a life of a writer.  It that takes grit, determination, dedication, and a life that is less cluttered than mine is right now, at least mentally and emotionally. I have made great strides in clearing my life of the triggers that set off fear bombs and anxiety in my life, but that […]