by Joan Grey | Feb 4, 2026
Is Speech Action? Something I’ve noticed, in fiction (and in real life, but I’m far less willing to comment on how people arrange their actual in-person relationships), is that things seem unbalanced. How often have you read a story – usually a romance –...
by Joan Grey | Oct 31, 2025
Cozy is all over, right now. Everything is cozy. (I’m not complaining, but it’s interesting to see.) Cozy is often called a genre, or a sub-genre, though it’s one which seems hard to define. There are a few common ideas: small scale conflict (or no conflicts at all)...
by Joan Grey | Aug 3, 2025
Aug 1, 2025 Loyalty Obat wished it hadn’t been his brother who’d betrayed everyone. He wished his brother hadn’t been so fucking wilfully blind… but that didn’t matter. His brother had chosen to believe the slick and selfish lies of someone who wanted power and didn’t...
by Joan Grey | Jul 28, 2025
40 hours of audio narration! I’m super proud. In an effort to learn how to make my own audiobooks – I can’t afford a professional narrator, so I thought I’d learn to be a professional narrator – I started making audiobooks of fanfiction, which is called...
by Joan Grey | Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025 Difficulties “I don’t understand why you haven’t just told him.” Monte shifted to peer down onto the alley. The assholes were late. Corthag glowered at the tablet screen showing the tracker the pixie Penny held. “There is...
