Pandemic Fun Times – part 2: Coming Together

I have been visited by many spiders lately… guess it’s time to get back to writing. I’m serious about that: for the last 2-3 weeks, they’ve been absolutely everywhere (even on my keyboard as I was writing yesterday!). It probably has more to do with spring and the reappearance of their prey, making the spiders …

Pandemic Fun Times – part 1: How I’m Doing

Well, I'm back. In times like these, it is not unreasonable to seek refuge in creativity, in art, in stories. And so the Dark Side Café is open for business again! I have no new story for you today, though, merely some thoughts on the role of art in difficult times - particularly in my …

Life, Writing, and the Nature of Books

So I’ve been trying to write and edit more in the last month — more seriously, in the case of my masters’ thesis, and semi-seriously for my stories. I keep the two separate, but they do feed into each other — not so much in terms of content as in terms of energy, motivation, or …

Concerning ‘Sidequest’ & Introducing ‘Ellan’s Lair’

And so that was Sidequest, the story of Judy the street punk, who became a bike messenger for the off-the-grid creators of a near-future Montreal. I first got the inspiration for this story from a conversation with my boyfriend’s family; they were talking about people they knew and the creative ways they made ends meet …

At the Bookstore

Hello all! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve spent a month and a half job-hunting, which can sometimes be discouraging, and so I had not felt inspired much. Or rather, I have felt the impulse, the drive to write — maybe a therapeutic need for it — but no new ideas. So instead I’ve …