• My interest has gotten piqued by indie perfume in the last two weeks—it started because I finally bit the bullet on the Imaginary Authors short story collection because it was on sale. I’ve avoided most scents for a long time so it’s fun to discover what I’m into.

• I have a new short story out: “A Reckoning of Queens” with Swords and Sorcery Magazine. The timing is fun because I’ve been living and breathing sword and sorcery while working on Shatter the Sun.

• DC awarded me an artist grant for next year!

• My Nobilis game is wrapping up and my D&D game is about to go on hiatus, so I will be briefly gameless.

• Re-reading Tamora Pierce books after a lovely panel at Can*Con—keep an eye out for AlannaCon, it feels inevitable.

• Digging back into Age of Wonders 4 before the Nightreign DLC comes out.

• Listening to a lot of Girl Ultra.

(Updated November 2025)

• Got back from Burning Man a couple weeks ago—I was expecting to just sort of tolerate the experience but I had an incredible time.

• Just finished design for Baffling Year Four, about to dig into We’re Here 2024.

• Working on promo for Christopher Caldwell’s collection Call and Response.

• Sitting on my laurels: a story I wrote just won the Desert Rat Fiction Prize!

• Rewatching Orphan Black on the treadmill; two episodes into the latest season of Taskmaster.

• Enjoying my disaster cleric in a pal’s D&D game; running a deranged game of Nobilis.

• Just finished reading An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson and it’s my fav read of 2025.

• Playing Nightreign to relax, which yes, may be counterintuitive.

• Getting Neon Hemlock finances figured out.

(Updated September 2025)