• Creativity - Media

    The Internet is the Opposite of Zen

    Periodically, I take long breaks from the firehose of social media, and it’s during these times that I realize, with great poignancy, how little value there is in the constant drumbeat of self-analysis (personal and communal) that has come to dominate public online discourse. As an enthusiastic consumer of all types of media, I have started to feel as though we are drowning in egos, dissolving into a million fragments of artless navel-gazing and opinion. With every ‘think piece’ and ‘long read,’ I feel less informed and more assailed by someone else’s desperate need to be seen and heard. With…

  • Creativity - The Bizniz

    10 Things I Learned Self-Publishing My Debut Novel

    Last week, I had this exchange on Threads with indie author-artist Raul Sauve (@sauvesauve), and another author-artist, Elena Catherine, popped in and asked the question about what we’d learned from self-publishing. I didn’t have time to respond in the moment, and truth be told, I don’t think I’ve had a chance to sit down and account for all my learnings over the past two years. So this week, I decided to write a blog post about it. I’ll start by saying that the decision to go the indie route and self-publish was not taken lightly. I don’t think my choice…

  • Creativity

    We Need Your Vision for Something Better

    During the 2010s, there was a marked rise in dystopian fiction in both print and film. Stories like The Handmaid’s Tale and The Hunger Games gained enormous popularity as millennials became increasingly disillusioned in adulthood. More recently, fantasy – including but not limited to the overwhelmingly popular categories of romantasy and vampire fiction – has taken over as readers seek escape from a world where dystopia is no longer fiction. But I want to talk about a different genre today: science fiction. Specifically, the kind of science fiction that my Boomer parents adored and raised me on. Star Trek. Star…