New short fiction! Plus, a monthly mini-salon series
I’m thrilled to announce that I have new short story published in the Spring 2025 edition of EPOCH Magazine, “Rare & Precious Antiques.” It’s about animistic vampires, objects with sentimental value, antique stores, and the weirdly colonial aesthetic of the Anthro catalogue circa 2013. You can buy the PDF of the journal here.
In January, I formally changed my Substack’s name to Your Wild And Radiant Mind to reflect the creativity aspect of the newsletter and to not scare folks off with my Buddhist gothiness. (The former title was This Is All Going Away.) I also worked with a very talented designer, Ashley Siebels, to help me out with the logo design. She did a fabulous job interpreting my very vibe-y mood board suggestions to create something far better than what I could have imagined.
I started a monthly mini-salon with my friend and fellow writer, Inés Bellina, creator of The Cranky Guide. Inés tends to focus her newsletter on the practical side of writing, but on the back-end she is very woo (she’s a big fan of astrology and Tarot), and I tend to focus on the woo side of writing, but on the back-end I’m very practical. Each month, we’ll address a subject that intersects at the spiritual and the practical. Our first topic was “Screw Duality: Harnessing The Intuitive and The Practical In The Creative Process.” It was amazing to be in community with such an savvy, thoughtful group of creatives and I can’t wait to have the next salon on March 13th. You can sign up here.
The mini-salon will be held every 2nd Thursday at 12-12:40pm CT. Free subscribers to our newsletters are invited to pay-what-you-can with the suggested donation of $15, but we will gratefully accept any amount. Paid subscribers get in for free to the salons as a subscription perk and will also receive a recording.
Over the last few months, I’ve worked on my novel-in-progress and multiple seed starter essays on Buddhism, language, and creativity: Death As A Teacher, Be Useless and Love Other People, The World Is Your Oracle, Sometimes Buddhism Is Magic and Witchcraft, and Our Joy Will Be Their Downfall.
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