Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Selected Articles, Essays, etc:

“Gothic Queer, Edward Gorey and Me” – December, 2022. Divergent Terror: At the Crossroads of Queerness and Horror edited by Waylon Jordan. Off Limits Press.

“Publishing Checklist: Making Books” – June 23, 2022. The Dream Foundry.

“Crafting an Anthology” – November 18, 2021. The Dream Foundry.

“Words that Sell: Writing Marketing Copy for Your Novel” – September 23, 2021. The Dream Foundry.

“UNC Libraries’ Machine Learning Project Analyzes State’s Jim Crow Laws” – June 11, 2021. Library Journal.

Short essay in Mark My Words: Read the Submission Guidelines and Other Self-editing Tips edited by Angela Yuriko Smith and Lee Murray. May, 21, 2021. Produced for Stoker Con: Horror University.

“Magical Crones and Adventuring Mothers” – March, 2021. Cat Rambo: The World Remains Mysterious.

Letters to Yesterday Podcast Episode 6 – June, 2020. Autobiographical letter to a “former self.”

“Book Releases on a Budget,” March 2020. SFWA Blog.

“Good for Your Career: An Event Evaluation Guide for Writers,” June 2019, SFWA Blog.

“Strange, But Not a Stranger” in Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride, edited by Lisa Marie Brimmer, John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins. Minnesota Historical Society Press. May, 2019.

“Once Upon a Time in Mexico” in My Wandering Uterus: Women’s Travel Stories, edited by K.A. Laity and Byron Ballard. March, 2018.

“Out of the Past: A History of LGBTQ Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror” in Queer Sci Fi: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Paranormal and Horror with a Bent Attitude. Regular column, 2017-2018.

“Aging in IT,” Model View Culture, Issue 27. September, 2015.

“Creatures of the Night: A Short History of Queer Horror” in Nightmare Magazine Queers Destroy Horror, edited by Wendy N. Wagner. Nightmare Magazine, 2015.

“LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy 2000 to 2010 Part 1 and Part 2” at SF Signal, December, 2014.

“LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1990s” at SF Signal, July, 2014

“LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1980s” at SF Signal,  April, 2014

“Amazons: Warrior Women in Fact and Fiction” at the  2014 Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event, Babbling About Books, January, 2014

“LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy in the 1970s” at SF Signal, January, 2014

“LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy Before 1970” at SF Signal, November, 2013

“Monstrous Females and Female Monsters” at SF Signal, August, 2013

“Lesbian Protagonists in Science Fiction and Fantasy” at Babbling About Books and More, January, 2012

“Do’s and Don’t of Self-Promotion for Writers” at Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog, January, 2012

“Street Talk” in How to Write and Sell Erotica by M. Christian. Renaissance E-Books, 2011