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Susan J Morris: Five Things I Learned Writing Strange Beasts
In this fresh-yet-familiar gothic tale—part historical fantasy, part puzzle-box mystery—the worlds of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes collide in a thrilling exploration of feminine power. At the dawn of...
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Five Signed, Personalized Books From Yours Truly
Heyooooo. If you’re feeling charitable and you want sweet, sweet books, I have five books up for grabs at eBay in an auction supporting the Ashland Public Library. You can check out the entry here....
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Naught But The Nameless News Nimbus
I have no idea what that title means. And I will be taking no further questions at this time. *kicks over podium* ANYWAY, some little bits of stuff going on: 1. While normally I don’t direct people to...
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“What Does Stephen King Mean for You And Your Career?”
A couple weeks ago, I headed to Harrisburg for the stellar Harrisburg Book Festival, run in part by the also stellar Midtown Scholar bookstore, and at that event I had the privilege of being on a...
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Jen Sugden: Five Things I learned Writing High Vaultage
EVEN GREATER LONDON, 1887: a vast, uninterrupted urban plane encompassing the entire lower half of England and, for complex reasons, only the upper third of the Isle of Wight… The immense Tower casts...
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If He Wins
It’s difficult to see how he wins, if we’re being honest. That is to say, if we’re also being logical. But we do not live in an honest age. Or a logical one. Still — reality has stacked itself against...
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This Is A Doom Post
There are bluebirds in our apple tree this morning and I am sad for them. Sad for the tree, too. The tree is a crabapple tree, technically. It’s an old tree, bursting with fruit. The tree doesn’t know...
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Jordan Shiveley: Five Things I Learned While Writing HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA
A biting, post-modern horror about day jobs and monsters – one of which will devour you whole, but perhaps not the one that you think. What will you put up with to not have to go back to the day job...
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A Slow, Crooked Path Forward, Toward Who-The-Hell-Knows
I don’t know that I’m ready to write much else since the thing I posted other day, but maybe I’m never really ready to write anything at all. And writing is what I do, for better or for worse; it’s...
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Giveaway: Staircase In The Woods (And More)
So, I’m not averse to a little retail therapy, as the saying goes, and given the week that just transpired, I decided to do exactly that. And it’s pretty standard that my kind of retail therapy is,...
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Books As Gifts! And Also Evil Apples!
The time is upon us: bookstores make a considerable portion of their annual profit between roughly now and Christmas, and that reason is, y’know, books make great gifts for the holiday season. (And...
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Giveaway Winners!
AHOY HELLO HEY. We have a pair of winners for the giveaway — and I know, I was only doing one winner, but now, I’m gonna do two. I mean, gosh, there were so many entries. I feel obliged! The only...
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Staircases And Orchards
Hey, real quick, while I have you here* — First up, Staircase in the Woods has a new preorder link at Doylestown Bookshop, since they switched over their ordering system. Pre-orders already made still...
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How To Write Words And Make Art In This Dire Era of Clowns and Cowards
If you’re not a person who agrees that we are living through some spectacularly stupid and nasty shit, then I suppose this post isn’t for you. You think things are some variant of normal, and I...
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Cover Reveal: Premee Mohamed’s One Message Remains
So, it has come time to reveal the wonderful cover of a new collection by one of my favorite authors — I wrote about how I am ride or die for Premee Mohamed here at the blog, and this collection,...
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Last Call For Signed, Personalized Books, Honk Honk, Beep Beep
Just a quick head’s up — if you want signed, personalized books of mine from Doylestown Bookshop, the 12th is the last day to order. We’ve passed the point of them being able to guarantee holiday...
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My Brain Is Goldfish (But Here Are Some Things I Liked In 2024)
I think my brain is not okay. I don’t mean to suggest I’ve got actual worms up in there, but the Current Era combined with Holidaytimes has really just turned my skull into a malfunctioning music box....
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The Time Elder Is Dead! The Time Baby is Born! (Bye, 2024, Hello, 2025)
Blah blah blah, some stuff happened in 2024, stuff’s gonna keep happening in 2025, woo hoo, we did it, there’s your recap and your look forward all rolled up in one HASTY AND MEDIOCRE BURRITO, huzzah,...
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Writer’s Resolution 2025: Change Your Story
The author makes a story. But a story also makes the author. What I mean is this: I think as writers, as authors, as storytellers and artists, we build ourselves along the way out of the narrative...
View ArticleThe Wildfires In LA
The wildfires in Los Angeles are as devastating as they are horrifying, upending lives and livelihoods left and right — and some people are going to need some help through this nightmare, so I’m...
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