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Coming in 2019!

Book Cover: Mad Scientist Journal - Spring 2019
Mad Scientist Journal - Spring 2019

New Releases!

Cover art for Mad Scientist Journal: Winter 2019
Mad Scientist Journal - Winter 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. Emerald City ComicCon 2019

    March 14 - March 17

  2. Novels of Fantastic History: The Sequel

    March 30 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  3. Norwescon 42

    April 18 - April 21

  4. Washington State Summer Con 2019

    June 15 - June 16

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News

  • Fun for Friday: Images as Inspiration

    I’m a very visual person, so it’s not entirely surprising that I get a lot of mileage out of images of unusual things. It might be something as simple as these glass-like flowers. The description I found for them says “A flower whose petals turn clear as glass when wet… Diphylleia Grayi otherwise known as […]

  • Strange Science: Coral Regrowth

    Sometimes, accidents make for great science! In this case, a scientist cleaning coral out of a tank accidentally broke the coral. However, in three weeks, each of the dozen pieces of broken coral had grown to the size of the original coral. The broken coral had originally taken three years to grow to its size, so […]

  • The Marsh Sisters and Family

    The very first short story I had published was “The Recondite Riddle of the Rose Rogue,” featuring the Marsh sisters, back in 2010. This came up recently because I have a second Marsh sisters short story, “The Marvelous Matter of the Mischievous Monkey,” in the latest volume of the Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. Recently, the editors […]

  • Valentine’s Day Reads

    It’s Valentine’s Day, so we’ve collected some of our favorite stories about mad scientists and love! “Lonely Heart” by Kathryn Yelinek (love that blooms after a human heart is found) “Love in the Time of Electronics” by Charlie Neuner (available in the Autumn 2017 quarterly) (the love a toaster feels for its human) “X X” […]

  • Movie Recommendation: Legend (2015)

    No, not the one from the 80s with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. The one from 2015 with Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy. Yeah, you read that right. Tom Hardy plays twin brother mobsters, Ron and Reggie Kray. And a nice chunk of the British actors I love are right there alongside him. As a […]

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