Fantasy Author and Editor
If you’ve been in the loop, you know that I’ve taught myself to spin yarn and thread. I’m having a blast! And I’m ready to make my first garment with my home made yarn: the Sophie Hood from Petite Knits. It is a very simple pattern which is perfect. I am so having memory issues […]
Hi friends, I’ve been thinking about migrating more than just the folklore threads scattered across social media. The truth is, I’ve really enjoyed keeping up a daily blog. I’ve been posting about my crafting projects on Tumblr at Soniamakes, which isn’t the best platform by any means (twice I’ve faced censorship there: once for Palestine […]
Hello friends, I’m in the process of migrating all of the Palestinian folklore and magic threads over here. It is all a bit scattered at the moment. Most of the archive is on Twitter, where I’m pretty sure that I’m shadow banned. It’s not great. And with all of the suppression of Palestinian accounts in […]
Hello, friends. I’ve been quite busy. I meant to write at the end of last week and now the next is almost upon me. I have a little news. My book club over on Patreon are having our first live chat. We will be discussing Tobi Ogundiran’s Jackal Jackal. All members are invited, paid or […]
Hello, friends. It’s been awhile! I am in the midst of slowing down, and, as I say: diminish and go into the west with the Elves to Valinor. That is to say, I want to make my primary home online… well, here on my blog. If analog tools can make a comeback, why not blogging? […]
Writers have the most amazing prompt generator ever: the tarot. Here’s a spread that I used recently for my novella project. You can go big picture, or as granular as you’d like. It’s a lot of fun too. My favourite way to use them is for plotting. This could be a four act tableau, or […]
Ghosts always come home for the holidays… I guess? Welcome to the new blog series on my latest novella project which has the working title ‘Festive Necromancy.’ Think of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, but it’s inspired by Palestinian folk religion, and instead of time travel the twist is necromancy. Yeah. Right now, I am […]
A year of anthologies amid horror. I may be a writer, but I do not have words for the horror of this past year and some change. I don’t know that I ever will. I almost stopped writing completely. It was so hard to find my way back. PodCastle reprinted ‘Handala. The Olive, the Storm, […]
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction celebrated its virtual launch with a panel discussion hosted by me, the editor. I was joined by eight contributors: Nadia Afifi, Jumaana Abdu, Emad Aysha, Samah Serour Fadil, Layla Goushey, Rana Othman, Ziyad Saadi, and Elise Stephens. You can watch the entire event here, on our publisher’s […]
Roseway, the publisher of my book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, have accepted my proposal for a follow up book! This one is called The Apocryphal, and is an anthology of Palestinian dark fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. Click here to see the pre-launch page for its crowdfund to learn more as details […]