My friend and fellow writer Jax Goss just launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first book to be released by Solarwyrm Press. I’m going to tell you a bit about it now, or you can jump ahead and check it out on Indiegogo. This is a project that’s been in the works for about a … More Crowdfunding Fantasy Noir!
Today, my short story Bridging the Divide was published in the inaugural issue of Plunge Magazine, an online magazine specifically focusing on queer women in genre fiction. This first issue’s theme was queer women in mythology. Bridging the Divide follows a mermaid, Prudence, on a quest to find a murderer, set in London in 1894. … More Announcing: Bridging the Divide
For those of you not familiar with Malaysia, here in Kuala Lumpur at least, we have a number of outlets of the US restaurant chain, TGI Friday’s. It just so happens to be one of the places I’m inclined to eat, so I like when they have special promotions on. For Mother’s Day earlier this … More Jaclyn Rousseau visits TGI Friday’s
Whilst I’m not as big of a consumer of various media these days as I have been in the past, I have noticed there being a trend in the sorts of stories I enjoy. I’m not sure exactly when it started or why, but diversity is a part of the equation. Is it because when … More Diversity in Storytelling: We’re Getting There
As today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I thought it would be the perfect time for me to write about the novel I’ve been working on for the last… let’s say 19 months. It started out in February 2011 as a short film screenplay that I’d intended to film with a friend in … More Let’s Talk Pirates
As I’ve been working on my first novel, Adrift, I’ve been looking for ways to connect with other writers. Through Facebook, I added an expat writer recommended to me by a woman I know in Malaysia, as she had told me he led a writing group. Well, that had been defunct by the time I … More A Great Community of Writers
If you know me, you might be aware that I was in Seoul, South Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan in April & May this year. I’ve not yet blogged about this, and I am about to head to France, so I am a little behind on the travel blogging. The main reason for this is because … More The Latest Update
To understand the significance of this trip for me, you first need to know about a little thing called LJ Idol. LJ Idol has played a major role in my life over the last two years, to bring me to where I am today. Some people see it as a writing competition. Some people think … More Eastern USA + 12 hours in London, Sept 10-22, 2011
Arena had it’s final Dramafest meeting on Sunday night and it was decided that Gary’s Place, the play Ellen and I wrote, would be performed, with Jeremy (my husband) to direct. Arena will also be submitting another play, but Gary’s Place excites me most, as it’s the first time I’ve written something and given it … More Gary’s Place selected for Dramafest
As mentioned in my previous post, I have recently been working on a one-act play with a friend. Given how far apart Ellen and I live, we only had two sessions working on the script together. Last Tuesday we met and talked about the ideas for the script, and ended up with a plot. I … More Burning the Midnight Oil
