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Book Cover: Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman

Recent Releases!

Bounty of the Atoll by Dawn Vogel
Bounty of the Atoll
Justice/Vengeance: Inferno by Erik Scott de Bie
Inferno
The Complete Mad World Cycle
The Complete Mad World Cycle
Afoul & Affairs, Amanda Cherry.
Afoul & Affairs
Book Cover: An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel
An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel
Wrecker of Engines – Tales of Cobalt City’s Adventurers Club, Rosemary Jones.
Wrecker of Engines - Tales of Cobalt City's Adventurers Club
Bad Intentions, a Cobalt City Universe Story. Erik Scott de Bie. Amanda Cherry.
Bad Intentions
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  • Fun for Friday: Another Batch of DefConOne Instagram Writing Prompts

    It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about a person who frames artwork. Write a piece about a constellation resembling a gate. Write a piece about a knight attempting to reach a location. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts on Fridays, or check them out when

  • “Progress” in This Book Has Ghosts in It

    “Progress” is a flash fiction piece about a haunted mall … or is it? The story begins: “Some people say the mall is haunted, but most of those people don’t know just how right they are. She’s not a ghost, though, just an unclassifiable being. She lives in the hidden spaces in the underbelly of

  • June 2026 Recap and Publications

    By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 13 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 3 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 41 My June numbers are on the very low end for resubmissions, but I also had a surprisingly low number

  • Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, Fantasy Vibes = Rhymes!

    For the sixth prompt in my Big Pink Book, I decided to use the fantasy imagery, particularly the unicorn, to write some poetry. At the top of the page, I wrote seven lines of what amounted to vaguely iambic pentameter (it’s not perfect, but it’s in that ballpark). And none of the lines rhymed, though

  • “Spun Sugar” and “No Fear” in Weathering Youth

    Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “Spun Sugar” and

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