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That Ain't Right: Historical Accounts of the Miskatonic Valley
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  • Writing Monsters While Avoiding Ableism

    There are a lot of tropes associated with monsters, and a huge number of these tropes are racist and ableist caricatures used as shorthand to suggest that non-white people and people with disabilities are inherently inferior, if not downright evil. This article from Mythcreants, “Ridding Your Monsters of Ableism,” gives examples of how monster tropes

  • Fun for Friday: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

    Sometimes, it’s not about finding a source for specific ideas, but much more about finding things that will give you a wealth of different ideas. Two blog posts I’ve found that address this topic well include Brandon Andersen’s 7 Sources for Story Ideas and M.B. Keen’s 9 Ultimate Sources for Writing Ideas. Though there is

  • February 2021 Recap

    By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 192 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 73 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 7 Resubmissions: 102 New Submissions: 5 Stories out at the end of the month: 213 Pretty happy with my numbers for February, as I continue to sell pieces and get new pieces done, and

  • What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, Early March 2021 Edition

    Reading: I’m reading for book reviews, but I also recently devoured When Brains Dream by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold, which is both research for a novel I’m planning to write that plays with dreams, but also just a fascinating read if you’ve ever had questions about dreams from a scientific perspective. This book does a

  • New Poetry and Story Out

    I’ve got a couple of new pieces that came out in February! My poem, “The Dragon’s Hoard,” appeared at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and features a dragon with an unusual hoard. This poem was inspired by the idea of a book wyrm as opposed to a bookworm. I also have my flash fiction piece, “Orbit 41,”

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