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Spring Reads

Weathering Youth by Dawn Vogel.
Weathering Youth
Afoul & Affairs, Amanda Cherry.
Afoul & Affairs
Warlock Rising, Nathan Crowder, The Mad World Cycle, A Cobalt City Universe Story.
Warlock Rising
Droplets from the Universe
Droplets from the Universe
Book Cover for Conceits of Whim and Fancy
Conceits of Whim and Fancy
C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives
C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives
Sure Shot in Las Capas - The Case of the Absent Star
Sure Shot in Las Capas - The Case of the Absent Star
Book Cover: The Boiling Sea
The Boiling Sea
Cover for Denizens of Distant Realms
Denizens of Distant Realms
Cover of Mad Scientist Journal Spring 2019 featuring a giant hand coming out of a field of flowers.
Mad Scientist Journal - Spring 2019
Cover Art for Battling in All Her Finery
Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders
Cover art for Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Cover Art for Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2018
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2018
Cover for Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Cover for Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2017
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2017
Cover for Kensei Tales: Live and In Concert
Kensei Tales: Live and In Concert
Book Cover: The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby
Mad Scientist Journal Spring 2016
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2016
Cover for Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2015
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2015
Cover for Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2014
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2014
Cover of Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2013
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2013
Cover of Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2012
Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2012
Cobalt City Timeslip
Cobalt City Timeslip
Chanson Noir by Nathan Crowder
Chanson Noir
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  • 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.

  • Poetry in Chimerical Remembrance

    Chimerical Remembrance has five poems included in it, alongside contemporary fantasy flash fiction and short stories. They cover a variety of topics, but many of them involve social commentary through a contemporary fantasy lens. “The Cold, Strange Globe” was a poem inspired by an image of a glass sphere and a winter scene, which I

  • The Big Pink Book Prompt 10, Free Spirit

    This week’s prompt from the Big Pink Book is a mostly open page with four stickers, one at each corner. Clockwise from the upper left, they are: A card from the Winnie the Pooh tarot deck corresponding to a card that isn’t found in any other deck that I’ve encountered. Its meaning is joy or

  • Fun for Friday: More DefConOne Instagram Writing Prompts

    It’s time for some more prompts from the DefConOne Instagram account! Write a piece involving Atlantis. Write a piece involving candles and house plants. Write a piece about an unusual circus or carnival. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts on Fridays, or check them out when I post them here!

  • Review of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

    The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Ballantine Books, 2021) isn’t quite like most of the books I read and review here. But the title caught my eye, as did the description of the book. While this book isn’t explicitly speculative, there are certainly some elements that seem as though they’re not exactly mundane,

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