"A Sacrifice of Flesh & Fury” Cover Reveal, "Washington Post" article & Ireland Retreat

My message this election & "The Washington Post" wrote about it ... Keep celebrating creatives and art—and keep creating and supporting creatives!

Writing Retreat at Abbey in Roscommon, Ireland

The election week I knew would be a heavy time, so I booked myself on a writing retreat in Ireland out of the country … and “The Washington Post” wrote about it.

The gift and curse of being a science fiction writing (especially one on the spectrum) is glimpsing futures before they fully manifest. I’m writing this from my humble writing desk in Dublin, looking out over the rooftops, sending so much love and light across the pond. I fly back home to California tomorrow to see the world anew.

Grief is real and needs to be felt deeply. But grief is not a destructive force unless you let it turn you and darken your soul. My biggest and best advice is the same thing I said to the journalist interviewing me. Channel it into your art! And keep celebrating creatives and art—and keep creating and supporting creatives!

Turn darkness and weave it into light. Light so bright, you can’t help but let it blind you and the world. Spread your light via your artwork, whatever medium you choose. I’m a writer, primarily of longform fiction, but also screenplays and a smattering of short stories. And I’m on a major deadline for “Namaste & Slay” my dark feminist “Most Dangerous Game” story. It’s adapted from a short story of mine that published, and yet has only become more topical over time. That’s how it goes sometimes.

Writing Retreat Ireland 2024

Ireland has provided a lovely buffer and inspiration, where I broke the backbone of the dark thriller, crafting chapters and spinning stories out of thin air like magic.