Blog: Alchemist’s Echo
Reflections and aspirations concerning all that makes life worth living. This naturally does not include religion or politics but does include sex, food, and art.
Sketchbook: Pure And Powerful
It can be disheartening to realize you’ve wasted so much time on something that will not come to fruition. But in every failure is discovery. I’ve discovered a great deal about what works and what matters, and, consequently, why I do this. With the closing of Drollerie Press in 2011, I’ve shelved Darklaw. I create for pleasure not a paycheck, and there is little pleasure in the process of choosing and securing a publisher. I know this series will see publication down the road, but for those of you who don’t...
read moreGrain-Free Daily: Cheap Calories or Good Calories?
If you need cheap calories, keep eating your soybeans, corn, oats, rye, rice, and their accompanying oils. If you want good calories, trade up to fewer but better foods--get rid of grains and choose grass-fed, free range, and organic meat and vegetables. My family eats less but better, and we don't spend appreciably more than we did when we ate the standard American diet (i.e. from boxes, freezer, and drive through). Below you'll find some recent recipes I've made. Below that, I've posted some explanation of why I eat as I do.
read moreGrain Free Daily: Chicken Skins, Amaranth Crackers, Split Pea Soup
Fried Chicken Skins Having cooked a whole fryer last week, I had a bounty of meat, skin, bone, fat. The meat lasted us all week, from stir fry to sandwiches to barbeque. The fat I’m still using for flavoring. What to do with the skins? I found a recipe to fry the skin just like bacon (salt and fry over medium heat until crispy). I was eager to try. And I was disappointed at the result. Maybe it was a cultivated aversion acquired from years of (wrong-headed) warnings about eating fat and skin. Taste was likely affected by the...
read moreGrain Free Daily: Frittata, Romaine Sandwich, Buckwheat Pizza
Here are some ideas for those of you going grain free, whether it's a lifestyle or just a day. I've gathered together my day of grain-free meals with recipes and photos below.
read moreSteampowered: Thoughts on Lesbian Steampunk
Despite how erotic content is often dismissed as distraction or sensationalism, sex is usually vital to telling my character’s story. Steampowered was not primarily an erotica project, but steampunk is a highly-textured aesthetic with its more organic and less industrial world. There was so much opportunity to expand the sensuality, especially with an impulsive character like Alice who experienced herself most fully through sensuality and sexual power.
read moreNew From Drollerie Press: Little Red Riding Hood Retold
Straying from the Path: New Tales of Little Red is now available from Drollerie Press! I have a rather dark and meaty story in this anthology, and had the opportunity to read all the others, as well. This is an outstanding book. And it’s on sale right now. You can read an excerpt from my story, Anthem, HERE. And a free story set in the same world HERE. From the Drollerie site: “Authors Adrienne J. Odasso, Jennifer Moore, Batya Deene, Fraser Sherman, Angela Rega, Imogen Howson, Jo Thomas, Joselle Vanderhooft, Jessica Tudor, Greg...
read moreCoyote Con Transcript: Writing Erotica and Erotic Romance
We discussed erotica, erotic romance, how to write it, how to determine which one you’re writing, and what the publisher might be looking for in your work. Following is the chat transcript from the Coyote Con panel on how to write erotica/erotic romance. I joined fellow author Joely Sue Burkhart on Sunday, May 30th. Deena Fisher moderated for us. View this and other transcripts from all Coyote Con Panels at the Coyote Con website. —————————————— Panel:...
read moreCoyote Con Transcript: Comics and Graphic Novels
Comic book writers, long-time readers, and reviewers discussed the history of this special form of illustrated fiction and where it’s going now. Talked about favorites, what worked, what didn’t, and how to get your graphic novel published. Following is the chat transcript from the Coyote Con panel on how to write and publish graphic novels. I joined fellow authors Cindy Lynn Speer, Fraser Sherman on Friday, May 28th. Deena Fisher moderated for us. View this and other transcripts from all Coyote Con Panels at the Coyote Con...
read moreCoyote Con Transcript: Writing GLBTQ Fiction
Join our panelists as they discuss writing GLBTQ fiction, where it’s selling, what consumers want and what the industry provides; what’s hot and what’s still taboo, what’s become normalized and what’s completely misunderstood. Learn what you can realistically include in your work, and what just won’t work no matter what you do. Following is the chat transcript from the Coyote Con panel on how to write for GLBTQ markets. I joined fellow authors KL Richardsson & Kal Cobalt on Saturday, May 22nd. Barb Mountjoy moderated for...
read moreCoyote Con Transcript: Transformative Sex
Sex is an imperative we can’t often avoid, but what takes fictional sex to transformative sex? How does sex transform your character? Why do you want it to? Learn what makes sex transformative and how to write transformative sex scenes from our author panel. Following is the chat transcript from the Coyote Con panel on how to write transformative sex. I joined fellow authors Anna Black, Joely Sue Burkhart, David Sklar on Saturday, May 22nd. Deena Fisher moderated for us. View this and other transcripts from all Coyote Con Panels at the...
read moreMy Stories @ Amazon
Under the Dome.
Passion has nothing to do with animals.
(In Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, Torquere Press. Ed. Joselle Vanderhooft.)
Adventures of a Lesbian Cowboy.
Wherein Mr. Charlie Bluff Captures a Murderer in Rawlins and Earns the Favors of Miss Pretty Delaney.
(In Lesbian Cowboys, Cleis Press. Eds. Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia. This awesome anthology, of which I was part, won Lambda Literary Award 2010.)
About Me.
(In Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Who Love Women, Bella Books. Ed. Therese Szymanski.)
My Dark and Empty Sky.
What if science tried to free us from prejudice?
(In CREAM: The Best of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, Thunders Mouth Press. Ed. Lisabet Sarai.)
About Me
