All blog posts 2024-04-09 Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder 2024-03-12 Status Update: Mar 2024 2024-03-05 They’d collapse on the bed and he’d kiss her 2024-02-27 But love isn’t words 2024-02-20 5 Mar 2024: Stefen’s Bookclub Author Night @ Durty Nelly’s 2024-02-13 Writing through a tough time 2024-02-06 Make it all so easy and enjoyable and frictionless 2024-01-30 Would his wife have done that too? 2024-01-16 Status Update: January 2024 2024-01-09 All writers are vain, selfish and lazy 2024-01-02 Come, delightful mortal, let’s see how good you are 2023-12-20 Dot Club will now count opens and clicks 2023-11-21 Yet We Sleep, We Dream — now at Stefen’s Books, Perth CBD 2023-11-17 Visiting DarkSide DownUnder for Magic Thursday: Working With a Sensitivity Reader 2023-11-09 Erotica is about the experience of desire 2023-10-24 Jetting around from my computer chair 2023-09-23 Yet We Sleep, We Dream — out now 2023-09-19 My Five Bastards: a clash of values 2023-09-12 Status Update: September 2023 2023-08-31 80s retro romance and a woman’s right to choose 2023-08-22 On working with a sensitivity reader 2023-07-19 When all your choices in life are bad, what else can you do? 2023-06-20 Interesting: RSS (Really Simple Syndication) 2023-05-25 Inspiration and Madness with Pia Manning 2023-05-16 Interesting: DRM — Digital Rights Management 2023-05-09 Fresh Find: Anyone at Hand by Ella Braeme 2023-05-02 Status Update: May 2023 2023-04-18 Consent is sexy 2023-03-30 Yet We Sleep, We Dream — cover reveal 2023-03-28 Gamedev diary: Slowly returning to this project 2023-03-14 Yet dreaming, yet awake 2023-03-07 Still fresh at 91 2023-02-28 Finding your voice 2023-02-25 My blog is now findable on the fediverse 2023-02-21 Fresh Find: Holiday Horrors for Charity 2023-02-14 Interesting: Verso 2023-01-31 Status Update: Jan 2023 2023-01-17 Is it healthy to compare yourself to others? 2023-01-03 Reflections on losing the Time War 2022-12-20 My 2022 in lists 2022-12-08 It Starts with a Kiss is now available on Leanpub 2022-12-01 Not back on social, but happy about Mastodon 2022-11-01 Fresh Find: Don't You Forget About Me 2022-10-11 Five-Star Cottage — free to read 2022-10-04 Website and blog redesign 2022-09-27 Responsibility through ridiculous inaccuracy 2022-09-20 Christy Cooper-Burnett takes 3-6 months to write a book 2022-09-06 Why I expire posts 2022-08-30 WIP report: 30 Aug 2022 2022-08-23 Backstory on Birdwatchers 2022-08-16 Music is Maggie Blackbird’s biggest inspiration 2022-08-09 My Aug 2022 in lists 2022-07-26 WIP report: 26 July 2022 plus excerpt! 2022-07-06 Craft and business 2022-06-21 It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to 2022-06-14 WIP report: 14 June 2022 2022-06-07 Reflections on Saving Suzy by Stefanie Simpson 2022-05-31 Sexy rehabilitation on the moon 2022-05-24 Email is my social media 2022-05-17 WIP report: 17 May 2022 with excerpt 2022-05-03 Losing face(book) 2022-04-26 WIP report: 26 Apr 2022 2022-04-19 My right now in lists 2022-04-12 Reflections on Tentacle by Rita Indiana 2022-04-08 WIP report: 8 Apr 2022 2022-04-07 Reflections on The Close-Up by Sarah Smith 2022-03-29 Hot Girl Summer is about letting go of shame in a victim-blaming society 2022-03-22 WIP report: 22 Mar 2022 2022-03-13 Okay, so that didn’t go as planned 2022-03-01 Agh, my eyes! 2022-02-09 Could you write a compelling infodump? 2022-02-04 Checking in on un-social times 2022-01-25 500 words is fine today 2022-01-18 Hinting for good luck 2022-01-16 Reflections on The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 2022-01-08 Starting the new year with a whisper 2021-12-21 My 2021 in lists 2021-12-18 Iteration Eleven — a short story 2021-12-17 Fresh Find: Etched in this Moment 2021-12-10 Fresh Find: I Don’t Want to Wake Up 2021-11-09 Moonlight 2021-10-26 The Genre Blender with B.K. Bass 2021-09-14 Birdwatchers — now free on my website 2021-09-07 Semi-socialite 2021-08-29 Gamedev diary: Random thoughts 29 Aug 2021 2021-08-24 Life after Project 365? 2021-08-10 Remember 2021-07-27 The 3 hardest things about writing sci-fi romance 2021-07-14 SUNSET sits at 70k words 2021-07-02 About Henry — out now 2021-06-29 The importance of stories 2021-06-25 Gamedev diary: HOPA research log 2021-06-21 Gamedev diary: I don’t like the story I’m writing 2021-06-11 Gamedev diary: Research is expensive 2021-05-11 Shout, shout, let it all out 2021-04-27 Star Crossed — out now! 2021-03-18 Moon — the last edits are in! 2021-03-09 Fresh Find: Neon Hearts 2021-02-21 Does failure start with a big F? 2021-02-09 Hobbies that feed my fiction 2021-01-26 Should fiction writers talk about politics? 2021-01-21 Love, Nostalgia & Lights in the Sky 2021-01-12 Should I be embarrassed? We’re not teenagers anymore. 2020-12-19 My 2020 in lists 2020-12-05 The pain you choose 2020-11-21 stolen time — a cinquain 2020-10-24 My top 10 retrofuturistic love songs 2020-10-17 About Henry on The Good Bits Podcast 2020-10-10 On procrastinating better 2020-10-03 Top 10 romantic comedies for a lovely night in 2020-09-05 Guys reading romance 2020-09-03 Fresh Find: A Merman’s Choice 2020-08-15 The Boy and His Book — a microfic 2020-08-15 Riding the wave 2020-08-02 15 tips from my writer self-care toolbox 2020-07-26 Memory — a cinquain 2020-07-08 She is helpless against it, and I watch. 2020-07-02 Can we please overhaul the “alpha bitch” trope? 2020-06-30 Where the Sun Always Shines — an anthology 2020-06-27 Chasing that first book deal (my story) 2020-06-23 I remember him catching my wrist. I remember a kiss. 2020-05-27 Chasing that first book deal (the guide sheet) 2020-05-01 Breathing life into a flat sci-fi romance 2020-04-10 About Her — an erotic short story 2020-04-05 My new website is here! 2020-03-24 Australia's lockdown began today 2019-11-25 Spring Buds — a microfic 2019-11-19 The kind of friend we’re thankful for 2019-10-12 Fresh Find: Faker 2019-09-30 Fresh Find: Star Brides 2019-09-27 Interview with Handmade Gems 2019-09-27 Interview with A.R. Vagnetti 2019-09-26 Interview with Renée Botman 2019-09-22 Fresh Find: Feathers and Fae 2019-09-16 Interview with More Sundays Please 2019-09-14 It Starts with a Kiss — out now 2019-09-11 Fresh Find: Not Suitable For Work 2019-06-23 Interview with designer & author Sophia LeRoux 2018-08-12 The Only Question That Matters — out now 2018-08-02 Arriving at the question 2018-07-27 Fresh Find: Submitted to Housework 2018-07-13 Is it really a first-world problem? 2017-11-30 Chasing Sisyphus blog tour 2017-11-09 The Induction of Satine — out now 2017-11-03 Fingers — a cinquain 2017-10-20 Styling Satine 2017-09-15 Contact — a cinquain 2017-09-13 Chasing Sisyphus is out now 2017-08-24 Introducing Adria 2017-07-09 I'm getting published! 2017-05-29 Rambling in a post-beta world 2017-02-22 Welcome to my site