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The Order of Things

Lurking on my Books page is the promise of a book entitled How to Be a Bazzillionaire: Why You Don’t Have to Be a Rich Person to Live a Rich Life. While my focus is on writing fiction right now (you can go to http://sarashay.com for information about that) I do have hopes of […]

Sociability

Today I deleted my accounts (multiple) on X/Twitter/Elon’s hobbyhorse. That Place, we’ll call it.

At the time I’m writing this, Mr. Muskrat has been systematically dismantling over two centuries of checks and balances to line his overfilled pockets. I’d kept the accounts because I was worried about some spambot seizing my name, but I […]

Ten Thousand Flowers and the Change of Location

Back in the 20th century, I rented a box.

I’m not sure when I did, exactly. All I do know is that it came in tremendously handy because the period of my life between moving out of my parents’ house for the first time and buying property of my own was marked by a […]

Dorkin’s Big Question

How do you break into comics? Post your comics on the web. Poof! You’re in comics. How to make any money in comics? That’s the big question.

–Evan Dorkin, in a Twitter post.

Evan Dorkin is a comic book artist who is probably best known as the creator of Milk and Cheese and, more recently, […]

Ten Thousand Flowers and the Self-Drawn Map

I find that when I give myself a ridiculous but quantifiable task such as, say, drafting a 50,000 word novel in thirty days, it helps to have some kind of visual aid that allows me to keep track of how far I’ve come and how far I have to go. By breaking it down into […]

Hello world!

“Hello world!” is, of course, the default post title for one’s very first WordPress blog post. It seemed oddly apropos to leave it there.

My name is Sheila O’Shea and I am a writer. I am a writer the way other people are smokers and drinkers–writing is a habit for me, a compulsive one that […]