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Coming in 2020!

Spiders of the Shifting Swamp
Spiders of the Shifting Swamp

Recent Releases!

Unfixed Timelines 2
Unfixed Timelines Volume 2
Book Cover: Mad Scientist Journal - Winter 2020
Mad Scientist Journal - Winter 2020
Book Cover: The Boiling Sea
The Boiling Sea
Book Cover: I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances
I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances
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

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  • Fun for Friday: October 2020 Writing Prompts

    It’s my favorite time of the year: Halloween! I’m ready for lots of spooky writing prompts and other autumnal delights! This month, the words in the first column come from Millennial Boss’s Simple Drawing Prompts. Words in the second column are the words that I’ve come up with, steering clear of the October theme of

  • Pirates of the Mediterranean Essay at Fantastic History!

    Catherine Schaff-Stump is hosting some of my articles about the real history behind my stories from Unfixed Timelines at her Fantastic History blog. The third post, “Pirates of the Mediterranean,” is up now! I wrote my story “Salt in Our Veins” based on a call for submissions that necessitated a Mediterranean setting and fae of

  • Review of Living Forever & Other Terrible Ideas by Emily C. Skaftun

    Emily C. Skaftun’s Living Forever & Other Terrible Ideas (Fairwood Press, 2020) is a collection of 18 of her short stories, which range from hilarious to heartbreaking. It’s a lovely mix of previously published and brand new stories, all dazzling in their prose. One trend that her modern fantasy stories, and some of the sci-fi stories,

  • Out Now: Spiders of the Shifting Swamp

    And now for something completely different, I’ve written and illustrated my first ever children’s book! Spiders of the Shifting Swamp started as a short story loosely based on a world that Jeremy had created, or at least tucked into the corner of a world he had created. The story was VERY short, and one market

  • When is the Best Time to Write?

    There’s a lot of writing advice that tells new authors that they should write every day, that they should make time in their schedule for writing, and so on. And while in an ideal world, authors could write every day, the reality of life is that many of us don’t have that luxury. Instead, I

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