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

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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: September 2026 Writing Prompts

    It’s time, once again for next month’s writing prompts! This time, we’re just about to head into September, which means autumn for the northern hemisphere! I’ve got a collection of older September art challenges that I haven’t used before this month. The first column is from Catember 2025. How did I never know there was

  • Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman

    My collection, Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman, came out just over a month ago. It collects two previously published Sarah Castile stories, plus one that’s only available in this collection currently. The stories follow Sarah’s European adventures in “Red Scare” and “Der Schwarze Wolf von Piz Bernina,” while “Nochevieja” is set in Cobalt

  • Recap of the Big Pink Book, Prompts 1-10

    I’ve now posted the first ten prompts from the Big Pink Book, along with how I used each one. Here’s a quick recap post. A Map We Go Together Like … It’s Funny … Magical Books Flags and Leaves Fantasy Theme Weird Combination Zen? Stars and Rainbows Free Spirit Out of these ten prompts, I

  • “Kindred Souls” and “Student Response to Referral Report” 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! “Kindred Souls” is a

  • Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book Prompt 10, Free Spirit

    On Monday, I posted the blank version of the tenth prompt in the Big Pink Book, which had themes of joy and happiness. Of course, I had to take it in a different direction. A while back, I wrote a drabble titled “Tarot Esoterica: The Black Lagoon,” which appeared in This Book Has Ghosts in It.

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