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A Love Letter To Hippolyta (Lovecraft Country)

The enthusiasm around the HBO show Lovecraft Country has come and gone, but I have some time, so I’m trying to clear out my drafts folder. So here some thoughts I had after being blown away from Episode 7 I AM. The show was uneven and there are things I liked and didn’t like about it (Why did they kill Yahima?). Overall, seeing Black characters with agency fighting monsters and witches…

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#Afrofuturism #Lovecraft Country

What I learned about in 2020

For 2021 I’m gonna try to write more blogposts, so here we go. Here The 5 (Writerly) Things I Learned in 2020. 1. Track My Word Count Looking Back, I didn’t write at all in October, November, and only a little bit in December. Because my long-term memory sucks, I thought the whole year was a wash. Looking back at my extremely complicated excel word tracker that I spent way too much time tweeking…

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There Can Be Only One

For a long time I had it in my head that I could only work on one project a time. Working on two was just an excuse to procastinate. But the talented Ines Johnson keeps posting her productivity pictures on Facebook and she works on atleast two projects at a time and she’s super productive.

So for the past month, I decided to do something different. I’m working on three projects:

Editing Worlds…

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I’m on Oprah’s Blog

I have the great honor of being features on Oprah Zip Bradford’s blog today.

http://oprahzipbradford.com/2019/01/21/how-new-york-times-bestselling-author-constance-burris-creates-fantasy-diversity-through-books/

One day I’ll get professional pictures taken, but until then click the link and don’t laugh at my crazy pics, especially the one with the shiny forehead.

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2018 Travels

So, in my last post I mentioned I spent most of 2018 traveling. . . Want to see pictures? Well, here they go.

Stop 1: Washington DC

Then took a 9 hour flight across the Atlantic to Morocco!

In August, the kids and I drove to Austin, TX For Armadillocon.

That writers workshop was everything.

In September, I returned to Texas for a writers retreat in Blanco, Texas. It was beautiful country. Oh…

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#travel

New Year, New Goals

When I look back at 2018 in regards to writing, I did not do much. I did publish Giant Risk and I think in terms of growth, its better than anything I’ve written before.

But I didn’t write much. I’m not sure what the problem was. I think I’ve lost my motivation since Coal or maybe I just need a better writing process.

It’s probably a little bit of both.

Either way, writing is still something I…

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Slow Down and Outline

My Work in Progress for National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) is sucking!

For my last two novels, I used solid outline templates based on the Fool Proof Outline by Christopher Downing. The questions and spreadsheets he provided gave me a clear trail of where I wanted to go in each scene.

My latest novel, Worlds Apart, I drafted around years ago. I wrote it before I learned a good process for…

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Book Review: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him,…

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Random Book Review: Homo Deus by Yuvu Noah Harari

Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than…

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Editing Black Hole

I am stuck in editing hell. This isn’t unusual. Editing is always hard for me. But the pain of editing Giant Change has been unusually stubborn and deep and strong. I should have moved on to the next story by now. I’m going to miss the pre-order release date, which really saddens me. I had such high hopes for my productivity in 2017. I was just beginning to make a profit, not publishing…

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Jade: Meet The Characters

Today is the official release date of Jade! Woot! To celebrate lets do a few character dossiers. Jade Real Talk, Jade (who’s original name was Akasha) was created as a matter of convenience. I needed a back story for Coal, which was mostly finished, and I needed to make the antagonist from Black Beauty (which was only halfway finished) something other than a voodoo priestess because that’s…

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!!!I'm On FIYAH!!

!!!I’m On FIYAH!!

FIYAH Giveaway I’m super honored to announce that I’m the Indie Author spotlight in the second issue of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Yep! That’s right. The #2 Issue. Even before they contacted me I was all about this magazine. I have the T-shirt and Coffee Mug to prove it. The merchandise is awesome but the stories are even better. This month, to celebrate my Indie Spotlight, I’m…

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New Release Alert!

I know it’s almost been a year in the making, but Jade: Book Three of the Everleaf Series officially has a release date of April 21st. I worked hard on this book and I believe its the best of the series so far. I’m dying to know if you guys agree. For everyone that pre-orders and sends me a screen shot of your purchase at [email protected], you’ll get a free copy of the “short story”…

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