TAMARA L. SIUDA

Category: Blog

  • A pressing item

    The Ancient Egyptian Daybook has gone out for its test print, which means it’ll be available soon. Here’s what the cover looks like. While I still have to print, ship to all the Kickstarter and website preorders, and then roll out the retail opening…the hardest part is done. I don’t think I’ve ever been this…

  • (Still in) Book Jail

    I’ve reached that part of my solitary writing confinement where I hate the book, I hate myself, and I hate everything about everything. The hate, however, is what fuels the desire to be done, to get the manuscript to the printer, and to let it go out into the world where it will be whatever…

  • Introducing The #MarriageMilitia Project

    NOTE: the project listed here is now live and has its own website. Thank you! My readers either went to bed last night or woke up to news about the transition of government in my country. We have a new president-elect and Congress that are all from the same party for the first time in…

  • Out

    There have been some moves in my life since last I blogged. Some were expected, some were not, and at least one was long, long overdue. I’m out of the Inland Empire. As I’d noted in June, I’m not built for triple-digit heat. Living closer to San Bernardino and the mountains than Malibu and the…

  • Ru (2001-2015)

    This afternoon, I picked up a tiny cedar box from Inland Valley Emergency Pet Clinic. On its lid is a simple brass plate inscribed “Ru.” Inside are a handful of rose petals, and a container with the ashes of my beautiful little boy, the elder of my two cats, who left this world on Monday.…