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 My goal is to support my family with my writing. That means that if you subscribe to my Patreon, if you buy my books or click through to my paywalled work, your dollars are going to buy milk and rent, electricity and pens.

Everything you contribute means more time to create more fiction, do more photo shoots, and generally chase the work that I love.

And in return, you receive exclusive content, essays, travelogues, short stories, photography, reviews, tales from the MFA circus, reviews, online chats, writing how-to’s and generally anything else I can think of…

I sing for my supper.

THANK YOU to all my wonderful Patrons! 

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Rest in peace, James Burns, long-time Patron, poet and colleague. 

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2024 schedule of appearances:

    • Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 7-10 (attending)
    • St. Louis SPJ Boot Camp, Feb. 3 
    • Conflation, St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 23-25 (guest author)
    • Midsouthcon, Memphis, Tenn. March 22-23 
    • Sigma Tau Delta convention, St. Louis, Mo. April 3-6 (attending)
    • SPJ regional conference, St. Louis, Mo. (date TBA)
    • National Federation of Professional Women, St. Louis, Mo. June 20-22 (speaker)
    • ConCarolinas, Charlotte, N.C. May 31-June 2 (tent.)
    • TechWrite STL, St. Louis, Mo. July 10 (speaker)
    • Imaginarium, Louisville, Ky. July 19-21 (guest author)
    • Dragoncon, Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 29-Sept. 2 
    • Edwardsville Book Festival, Sept. 14 (tent.) 
    • St. Louis SPJ Boot Camp, Sept. 21
    • Archon, Collinsville, Ill. Oct. 4-6 
    • ContraKC, Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 8-10 

Note that thanks to the Voldevirus, all public events are subject to change.