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Coming in 2019!

Book Cover: Mad Scientist Journal - Summer 2019
Mad Scientist Journal - Summer 2019
Book Cover: I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances
I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances

New Releases!

Cover of Mad Scientist Journal Spring 2019 featuring a giant hand coming out of a field of flowers.
Mad Scientist Journal - Spring 2019
Cover Art for Battling in All Her Finery
Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders
Cover art for Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Cover art for Cobalt City: Ties That Bind
Cobalt City: Ties that Bind
Book Cover: Rites & Desires
Rites & Desires
Cover for Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Book Cover: The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby

Upcoming Events

  1. Washington State Summer Con 2019

    June 15 - June 16

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News

  • Growing as a Short Story Writer

    I started writing regularly in 2009 and lucked out by selling my first short story early in 2010. After that, things were a bit more hit and miss for a while. Between 2010 and 2014, I made a total of 11 story sales, some of them for no payment, and mostly for very small payments. […]

  • Fiction: Retirement Options

    An excerpt from the journals of former Intergalactic Police (IGP) Agent Irene Magnus, as provided by Sam Crane Art by Luke Spooner “Cheers!” I clinked my round tumbler against the whiskey bottle with a little plink! and knocked back a third of what was in my glass. “Leave the bottle” had been the smartest thing […]

  • Fun For Friday: Writing Workouts!

    If you’re looking for a quick writing workout, check out this list of six 10-minute writing workouts you can try! Some of them lend themselves well to writing longer pieces, while others just flex your writing muscles as a warm-up to doing some different sort of writing. There are a lot of great ideas contained […]

  • Strange Science: Super-Chilled Helium and Universe Formation

    Researchers at Aalto University’s Low Temperature Laboratory have documented “walls bound by strings” in superfluid helium-3. Because helium remains a liquid even at absolute zero, and because it becomes a superfluid at other low temperatures, it has the potential to flow forever with zero viscosity. This allows the researchers to form “half-quantum vortices—whirlpools in the […]

  • Steampunk Technology, Real and Imagined

    The steampunk technology that I write into my novels and stories is often partially real and partially imagined. For The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby, the idea of the clockwork animals was pulled primarily from my imagination–while it’s certainly possible to have mechanical or robotic animals with modern technology, I used a lot of hand waving […]

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