I often use Mimont (a mashup of Mi-chele and Mont-gomery) on social media sites. It reduces my name’s carbon footprint. I try to go green whenever possible.

This vending machine in the Sip and Sonder coffee shop in Inglewood (near Los Angeles) spits out free short stories for you to read. Well-written ones too. It’s like winning the lotto only with less money and begging relatives.

Had a fun day researching bees at an Atlas Obscura event held at the Elysian Community Garden. It’s exciting to make things up then do field work and discover those ideas could actually work in real life. Score! And eating fresh honey? What a delicious writing perk.

Thank you, WFWA members, for voting me onto the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Board of Directors for 2019. I feel honored to be part of this professional organization and to be serving with such a sterling group of writers.