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Book Cover: Unfixed Timelines Volume 4
Unfixed Timelines Volume 4

Recent Releases!

Book Cover: Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
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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  • The Big Pink Book Prompt 14: Music

    Prompt 14 in the Big Pink Book features stickers mostly across the top of the page, with a single sticker at the bottom, left-hand corner, and provides a TON of space for writing. Across the top of the page, there are six stickers. From left to right, they are: An iridescent silver musical staff, which

  • Fun for Friday: My Big Pink Book Page for Prompt 13, Flowers

    On Monday, I shared the blank version of the thirteenth prompt page in the Big Pink Book. Here’s what I did with mine! I decided that the watercolor flower and the very even pink flowers had a bit of a contrast and thought about writing a story in which there’s technology that can make perfectly

  • “Red Scare” in Sure Shot Stories

    The first story in Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, “Red Scare,” is the first Sarah Castile story I wrote, back in 2015. My first ever Huntsman story was five years before that, featuring Eleanor Castile, who had taken on the Huntsman mantle while her father was injured. This was the first time I

  • WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: Elevator Pitch Workshop

    Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. This week, I’ll be talking about the “Elevator Pitch Workshop” with Patchree Jones, which I helped facilitate. Patchree has a communications background, so her approach to this topic was a fantastic way to look

  • “I Won’t Open My Eyes” and “Where There’s Rain, There’s …” 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! “I Won’t Open My

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