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Behind the #FlamingoWeatherReport
I can not take credit for the #flamingoweatherreport, at least not completely. I did start it, but Cara Bristol created the hashtag. But we have to go back further than the hashtag to where the story began. Well, we don’t have to go back to the 50’s, because that would be ridiculous. But we’ll start…
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Why Tonya Cannariato Wrote The Builders
This story started as many of mine do: As a compelling dream. In it, a woman with amazing body art was depressed because she’d been sent on a mission to find “generators” for her dying race, and she was failing her quest. Her understanding of the word meant she’d all but whored herself out testing…
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Getting My Print On
In between shaking down my muse for words, I’ve been working on getting all my books into print. Okay, I know some of them have been “in print,” as used editions for a long time. A really long time. And I won’t blame you at all if you pull up my books, look at pricing,…
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The Power of Shoes
This is not an Imelda-Marcos-million-shoes blog post. For me, shoes are, for the most part, judged by: How comfortable they are Do they stink (If I love a pair of shoes, I love them to death) The exception to these rules are boots. I love boots. When I put on boots, I feel different. And…
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Why Jolie Mason Wrote Home is the Sailor
Does it count if I say “It’s complicated”? I wanted to write a story based around a ship because I was going through Serenity withdrawals, but, as I wrote, it became something more. These captains became friends, and the Carry Bell became a kind of home. Home is the Sailor is a second chance romance,…
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Discussing Silly Birds and Smiles
“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people…Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.” Charles M. Schulz. One should never argue with Charles M. Schulz or Linus. So I thought I would talk about….flamingoes, funny birds in general, and possibly some other things. When you are talking about birds, you kind of…
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Friends With Books
I was visiting with a friend recently—a friend I have never met face-to-face and probably never will—about books (wonders of the internet!). It got me thinking about book friends, or friends with books. In the olden days, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and all books were paper, friends with books were like a chest of…
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Why Cynthia Sax Wrote Dark Thoughts
Dark Thoughts is the first standalone story in a four story spinoff series from the cyborg series. We first meet Kralj, the scarred mind-reading hero of Dark Thoughts, in Chasing Mayhem. Readers don’t need to read that story to enjoy Dark Thoughts. That was when I KNEW I had to write this story. The cyborgs…