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2024-07-05 Blog now lives at jlperidot.com/blog
2024-06-11 Reflections on Nolan’s Hunger
2024-05-14 On recommending books to people
2024-04-09 Only a living man, stupid enough to wonder
2024-03-12 Status Update: Mar 2024
2024-03-05 They’d collapse on the bed and he’d kiss her
2024-02-27 But love isn’t words
2024-02-20 5 Mar 2024: Stefen’s Bookclub Author Night @ Durty Nelly’s
2024-02-13 Writing through a tough time
2024-02-06 Make it all so easy and enjoyable and frictionless
2024-01-30 Would his wife have done that too?
2024-01-16 Status Update: January 2024
2024-01-09 All writers are vain, selfish and lazy
2024-01-02 Come, delightful mortal, let’s see how good you are
2023-12-20 Dot Club will now count opens and clicks
2023-11-21 Yet We Sleep, We Dream — now at Stefen’s Books, Perth CBD
2023-11-09 Erotica is about the experience of desire
2023-10-24 Jetting around from my computer chair
2023-09-23 Yet We Sleep, We Dream — out now
2023-09-19 My Five Bastards: a clash of values
2023-09-12 Status Update: September 2023
2023-08-31 80s retro romance and a woman’s right to choose
2023-08-22 On working with a sensitivity reader
2023-07-19 When all your choices in life are bad, what else can you do?
2023-06-20 Interesting: RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
2023-05-25 Inspiration and Madness with Pia Manning
2023-05-16 Interesting: DRM — Digital Rights Management
2023-05-02 Status Update: May 2023
2023-04-18 Consent is sexy
2023-03-28 Gamedev diary: Slowly returning to this project
2023-03-14 Yet dreaming, yet awake
2023-03-07 Still fresh at 91
2023-02-28 Finding your voice
2023-02-25 My blog is now findable on the fediverse
2023-02-14 Interesting: Verso
2023-01-31 Status Update: Jan 2023
2023-01-17 Is it healthy to compare yourself to others?
2023-01-03 Reflections on losing the Time War
2022-12-20 My 2022 in lists
2022-12-08 It Starts with a Kiss is now available on Leanpub
2022-12-01 Not back on social, but happy about Mastodon
2022-10-11 Five-Star Cottage — free to read
2022-10-04 Website and blog redesign
2022-09-27 Responsibility through ridiculous inaccuracy
2022-09-13 The post you're looking for has been retired
2022-09-06 Why I expire posts
2022-08-30 WIP report: 30 Aug 2022
2022-08-23 Backstory on Birdwatchers
2022-08-16 Music is Maggie Blackbird’s biggest inspiration
2022-08-09 My Aug 2022 in lists
2022-07-26 WIP report: 26 July 2022 plus excerpt!
2022-07-06 Craft and business
2022-06-21 It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
2022-06-14 WIP report: 14 June 2022
2022-06-07 Reflections on Saving Suzy by Stefanie Simpson
2022-05-31 Sexy rehabilitation on the moon
2022-05-03 Losing face(book)
2022-04-26 WIP report: 26 Apr 2022
2022-04-19 My right now in lists
2022-04-12 Reflections on Tentacle by Rita Indiana
2022-04-08 WIP report: 8 Apr 2022
2022-04-07 Reflections on The Close-Up by Sarah Smith
2022-03-29 Hot Girl Summer is about letting go of shame in a victim-blaming society
2022-03-22 WIP report: 22 Mar 2022
2022-03-13 Okay, so that didn’t go as planned
2022-03-01 Agh, my eyes!
2022-02-09 Could you write a compelling infodump?
2022-02-04 Checking in on un-social times
2022-01-25 500 words is fine today
2022-01-18 Hinting for good luck
2022-01-16 Reflections on The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2022-01-08 Starting the new year with a whisper
2021-12-21 My 2021 in lists
2021-12-18 Iteration Eleven — a short story
2021-12-17 Fresh Find: Etched in this Moment
2021-12-10 Fresh Find: I Don’t Want to Wake Up
2021-11-09 Moonlight
2021-10-26 The Genre Blender with B.K. Bass
2021-09-14 Birdwatchers — now free on my website
2021-09-07 Semi-socialite
2021-08-29 Gamedev diary: Random thoughts 29 Aug 2021
2021-08-24 Life after Project 365?
2021-08-10 Remember
2021-07-27 The 3 hardest things about writing sci-fi romance
2021-07-14 SUNSET sits at 70k words
2021-07-02 About Henry — out now
2021-06-29 The importance of stories
2021-06-25 Gamedev diary: HOPA research log
2021-06-21 Gamedev diary: I don’t like the story I’m writing
2021-06-11 Gamedev diary: Research is expensive
2021-05-11 Shout, shout, let it all out
2021-04-27 Star Crossed — out now!
2021-03-18 Moon — the last edits are in!
2021-03-09 Fresh Find: Neon Hearts
2021-02-21 Does failure start with a big F?
2021-02-09 Hobbies that feed my fiction
2021-01-26 Should fiction writers talk about politics?
2021-01-21 Love, Nostalgia & Lights in the Sky
2021-01-12 Should I be embarrassed? We’re not teenagers anymore.
2020-12-19 My 2020 in lists
2020-12-05 The pain you choose
2020-11-21 stolen time — a cinquain
2020-10-24 My top 10 retrofuturistic love songs
2020-10-17 About Henry on The Good Bits Podcast
2020-10-10 On procrastinating better
2020-10-03 Top 10 romantic comedies for a lovely night in
2020-09-05 Guys reading romance
2020-09-03 Fresh Find: A Merman’s Choice
2020-08-15 The Boy and His Book — a microfic
2020-08-15 Riding the wave
2020-08-02 15 tips from my writer self-care toolbox
2020-07-26 Memory — a cinquain
2020-07-08 She is helpless against it, and I watch.
2020-07-02 Can we please overhaul the “alpha bitch” trope?
2020-06-30 Where the Sun Always Shines — an anthology
2020-06-27 Chasing that first book deal (my story)
2020-06-23 I remember him catching my wrist. I remember a kiss.
2020-05-27 Chasing that first book deal (the guide sheet)
2020-05-01 Breathing life into a flat sci-fi romance
2020-04-10 About Her — an erotic short story
2020-04-05 My new website is here!
2020-03-24 Australia's lockdown began today
2019-11-25 Spring Buds — a microfic
2019-11-19 The kind of friend we’re thankful for
2019-10-12 Fresh Find: Faker
2019-09-30 Fresh Find: Star Brides
2019-09-27 Interview with Handmade Gems
2019-09-27 Interview with A.R. Vagnetti
2019-09-26 Interview with Renée Botman
2019-09-22 Fresh Find: Feathers and Fae
2019-09-16 Interview with More Sundays Please
2019-09-14 It Starts with a Kiss — out now
2019-09-11 Fresh Find: Not Suitable For Work
2019-06-23 Interview with designer & author Sophia LeRoux
2018-08-12 The Only Question That Matters — out now
2018-08-02 Arriving at the question
2018-07-27 Fresh Find: Submitted to Housework
2018-07-13 Is it really a first-world problem?
2017-11-30 Chasing Sisyphus blog tour
2017-11-09 The Induction of Satine — out now
2017-11-03 Fingers — a cinquain
2017-10-20 Styling Satine
2017-09-15 Contact — a cinquain
2017-09-13 Chasing Sisyphus is out now
2017-08-24 Introducing Adria
2017-07-09 I'm getting published!
2017-05-29 Rambling in a post-beta world
2017-02-22 Welcome to my site

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