I met a lady in the meads, / Full beautiful – a faery’s child, / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.
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January12th
Just lazing around the house, trying to get used to reading on my new Kindle Fire (Christmas present!) and being a general bum. Off tonight to have dinner and watch the new episode of Project Runway All Stars with friends though! The shirt is a brand called The Orphan’s Arms that I really like and the fox ring (!) and “Once Upon a Time” ripped page charm (!!) were gifted to me for Christmas too 
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January7th
The lovely Theodora Goss, one of my biggest inspirations and favorite writers, is having a great contest right now to win a copy of her new novella The Thorn and the Blossom (which I am SO excited for!) In order to have a chance at winning you must describe your dream imaginary garden. Here’s what I submitted -
If you go down a certain lonely alleyway off the busy streets of a certain city, you’ll come to a gate of twisted iron set between the walls of two unremarkable gray buildings. If you look closely, the iron forms swirls of roses, crescent moons, and strange words from a language you don’t know but that seems somehow familiar. Behind these forms you can make out wild brambles, perhaps a flower or two, but the alley is dark and you wish you could see more but the gate is locked. You can’t resist teasing out the sounds of the words however, and as you do the gate swings open unexpectedly. You tentatively take a step inside and find a tangle of flowers, particularly wild roses and ivy, crawling all over the sides of the buildings. You recognize the smells of a few of the herbs you notice growing at your feet, each carefully labeled in a swirling hand. In the center of the small square of space there is a cracked fountain and a bench with a few battered books and a chipped tea cup, as if someone was just here but left in a hurry. You look around quickly, expecting someone to be watching you, but only catch the silent swish of a tail out of the corner of your eye.
Ah, I wish I could go there right now. Go and enter, I’d love to hear about your imaginary gardens!
December15th
Such exciting news! My poem “Grateful” has posted as part of the latest issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest at the amazing journal Cabinet des Fees!
Please read and let me know what you think . The whole issue is wonderful and also features one of my best friends, Sara Cleto!
Also! This somehow didn’t get posted here when it first came out but I have a bit of flash fiction in the new issue of Mirror Dance as well! This is another absolutely lovely journal so please check that one out too! .
November28th
Outfit from today for working on applications for further graduate school and other such things… my stress is mitigated by fabulous clothes and accessories 
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Also, a quick note – there is some wonderful magick happening over at the livejournal community magick4terri, a group organized to help the amazing Terri Windling who has unfortunately hit a rough time in her life. Please check it out, donate if you can, and stick around to bid when the auctions begin opening tomorrow!
November9th
I am so giddy about this I don’t even know what to say! My beautiful friend, McCall Doyle, has just started a photography studio called Gilded Lily Photography and wanted to do a fantasy themed shoot. I, of course, immediately volunteered so last Saturday we went out and had an amazing time at Chapman’s Mill doing both a Victorian themed shoot and a Snow White themed shoot!
My favorite image from the Victorian shoot… it looks like a bizarre album cover or something, I love it. And yes, these are active train tracks which we did NOT know when we were shooting… we only realized once a train went by at a ridiculously fast speed after we were finished. Scary!
McCall got some crazy images during the Snow White shoot… she made me keep talking to her while she was taking these because it was a little TOO much like I was in an enchanted poisonous sleep!
I can’t even describe how fun this was . Please go check out the rest of the two shoots at McCall’s blog – she’s amazing!
October22nd
Let’s see, I have a bit of news to share! First, I’ve been quite busy these past few weeks as I presented my paper, “Fairy Tales at War: Retelling Fairy Tales as War Narratives in Young Adult Literature” at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society for the first time! It went well I think, these things are always so nerve wracking but AFS is such a great group and their conferences are so much fun. I got to hear papers on everything from cross-dressing French fairy tale heroines to Civil War wedding dresses and it was awesome just to be able to hang out with so many great colleagues.
My other bit of big news is that I’ve have two new pieces accepted! My piece “Inside the Wolf” will appear in the Winter 2011 issue of Mirror Dance and my poem “Diana Remembers Actaeon” will be published in the Spring Equinox 2012 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer! I love both of these publications and am so excited to be a part of them.
I’ve done a couple of little updates around the site… nothing too major but the Projects and CV pages are on their way (really!) I also added a few new things – a Livejournal crossposting tool (that hopefully those on my friends list at LJ are seeing right now!) and a twitter widget (which you can see on the sideboard.) All this stuff so fancy, I still can’t get over how well everything works! Very impressive, WordPress, I must say. Does anyone have any suggestions for any other cool WordPress things to play with I wonder…? Ah, not that I should be doing this right now, I have a paper that’s crying to be written and it really just needs to get done. More soon!
September29th
A brand new site! I decided I wanted the polish of WordPress and I’m really, really pleased with how it turned out. I like having a public blog to use too and I have big plans for awesome posts in the future (so do subscribe!) Please let me know if you run into any issues around here, as there are still a few tweaks I need to do. The CV page and the Projects page are still under construction as well.
A few news items of note:
* The wonderful poetry magazine Stone Telling has a new issue up that includes a selection of non-fiction on the amazing but no longer active Journal of Mythic Arts that was edited by the incredible Terri Windling and Midori Snyder, to which I contributed a personal reflection on the importance of the journal in my life. I was honored to be able to contribute this, JOMA was a huge inspiration to me. The whole issue, devoted entirely to the mythic, is fantastic!
* Speaking of the work of Terri Windling, I was recently lucky enough to have my desk featured in the “On Your Desk” series she’s doing on her blog! She was kind enough to say some very sweet things about my story in the August issue of Jabberwocky Magazine, “Kitsune, Fox,” as well, which is just so amazing there are no words .
Thanks for reading all! I’m really excited about this new place and hope you like it!
September27th
Hello and thanks for visiting my site! Everything here is currently under construction as I am going through the massive project of switching everything to WordPress. Please bear with me while the battle rages and I make everything fancy and fantastic around here. It should be done within a couple of days and I can’t wait! DONE! Well, pretty much done… I still have to finish working on the CV page and the Projects page but both of those were under construction when I started so I’m going to go ahead and say the site is ready to open. I can’t believe how nice it looks, so professional and elegant! Please let me know what you think if you get a chance and thanks again for visiting <3
