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I know that I’m not the only writer who struggles with keeping a blog regularly updated. It shouldn’t be this hard. It’s writing. It’s what I do. Yet, here I am typing out this crap mere hours before the series finale of Game of Thrones. Oh, the pain of building a writer platform. I’ve spent a lot of time on Pinterest this past week, looking for blogging tips and social...
Remember in the early 00’s when blogging was about all your teen angst bullshit? Remember when your blog was called “Life’s Garbage” and it was a place where maybe five strangers on the internet read about your bad day and you read their blogs and their bad days and you bonded over your mutual teenage angst over tagged links (rewards for leaving comments, the gold of all personal blogs!) and...
I chugged a Red Bull that my sister left in my fridge before I put Maggie down for a nap. For the first time I didn’t want to take a nap of my own, so I dealt with the dishwasher and the kitchen and tried to find some IKEA shelf hardware that I swore I bought but still can’t find anywhere in the house, and then I took out two...
It’s been quite some time since I’ve last published an original story. Luckily the wait for new work to see the light of day isn’t long. I have a story called “Cat Calls” featured in the Exigencies anthology. Exigencies is the second anthology of neo-noir fiction from Dark House Press. While The New Black was a “best-of” collection, Exigencies is an anthology of all new fiction from a number of...
For the longest time I’ve been fooling myself into thinking that I could design my own layout. Granted, the one I was using might have looked nice, but the proof of my shitty coding skills were lurking like termites behind all the hipster graphics. So I’ve deleted my old WordPress database and started anew with a fresh theme that actually supports widgets and plugins and can be customized within the...
This is a little late news, but the Nova Parade anthology from Solarcide now has a release date. On July 1st, you can celebrate Canada’s birthday by reading my “dirty summer boyfriend / addiction tale”, Blue Hawaii, among other carefully crafted tales from some other badass writers from Canada and beyond. I think only two of the contributors are from Canada, but that’s beside the point. The best part is...
I’ve been meaning to do this for some time. And by “this” I mean, be professional. It’s been a long time coming, ditching the domain I’ve had since high school. It was getting pretty deceiving, though. I mean, my life was never that bad. From this point on, lifesgarbage.com will now link to my new and much more professional domain, rebeccajoneshowe.com. As you can see, I’ve revamped my layout a...