Death Game

I was alerted to this game a couple of days ago via a Twitter friend.  While

My Gift of Grace

is not available for purchase right now, you can help get this game funded through their

Kickstarter

campaign.  They are almost at their goal of $38,000.  If you donate a mere $5, you will get a downloadable pdf of the game, and with a $30 donation you'll get the actual game.

Talking about death is so important, but it is something that most people are afraid to do.  I think a game might help.  So, watch the video above and tell me what you think in the comment section.

Mayborn Conference

So, this happened.  Second place in the manuscript competition!

What a weekend.  As someone said during the Mayborn, "it's like a spa for writers."  While I didn't get a massage or a pedicure, I was totally immersed in passion, knowledge, and story.  There were so many kick-ass writers there that it was almost overwhelming.  Among them were a few people who helped me on my writing journey.  I felt like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz--and you were there, and you, and even you!. There was Patsy Sims, the director at Goucher.  I remember getting the call from her that I'd been accepted into the program.  I was a little thrilled.  Tom French was there.  He was my mentor when I traveled to death row and met Khristian Oliver.  Margaret Luevano was also there.  She was a classmate at Goucher and the day after the execution, I drove back to Austin and she met with me at a little outdoor cafe where I proceeded to cry and make everyone around us probably very uncomfortable.

So, in addition to all that, I got a wee little excerpt from "Death Becomes Us" published today.  You can read it

here

.  

And there was something else, but I can't really talk about it yet.  So, now I'm done tooting my own horn. Life will proceed as usual.