I’ve written professionally since 1995, when I began as a stringer for a weekly newspaper. I moved on to become the bureau chief of one of five newspapers in the chain and worked in newspapers until I became a freelance writer and editor.

I maintained a weblog called “So anyway…” from November 2001 until roughly the end of 2010, with a few prompt-reply type entries through 2014.

Creative non-fiction (CNF)
“Haggis-spotting,” published in Journal of the Blue Planet

Essays and editorials
unless otherwise indicated, published in Toasted Cheese Literary Journal

• 404: Not Found (with Theryn Fleming) | altering the past / why TC won’t remove published work
• A Little Writing | balancing writerhood and motherhood
• All Writers Are Independent But Some Are More Independent Than Others | independent authors, publishing, and online interaction
• An Observer in My Own Life | for a writer, everything is material
• Bad Dialogue (with Amanda Marlowe) | how not to write dialogue
• The Borrowers | plagiarism
• Count Me In | what “counts” as writing
• Got to Get You into My Life | daily doses of poetry
• Help! Help! I’m Bein’ Repressed! | when rules have their place
• Meanwhile, Behind the Scenes… | working within an editorial collective
• Nineteen Days | writing 63k in three weeks
• Question Authority | don’t believe every writing expert you hear
• Save Today | Being a Wonder Woman for other women writers
• The Spirit of the Snark | generosity
• The Storytellers | why we love Antoine Dodson, Sweet Brown, and Charles Ramsey
• Strive Toward the Light | The first female politician I admired was Princess Leia
• Tell Me A Story | discovering the genetic component of storytelling
• To Discover a Mockingbird | the publication of Harper Lee’s discovery draft
• What this editor has to say about articles for writers will SHOCK you! | the assumption of “must-do”
• Write What You Dig | please one reader: yourself
• #writerwin | agent, editor or writer we all have the same goal: success
• You Are Not Your Work | reader criticism and author response