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On Kickstarter: Playlist of the Damned

| April 26, 2023

Horror + music? Sign me up! Weird Little Worlds launched their Kickstarter for Playlist of the Damned, a horror and music-related anthology, last week. It’s already filled with luminaries from the horror fiction community, and they’ll be opening to submissions at the beginning of May to fill the other slots in the anthology. In addition to […]

Review of “A Still Life” by Elliot Wink

| February 15, 2023

Today is a different kind of review than I normally post here! I was invited to take a sneak peek at Elliot Wink’s short story, “A Still Life,” which will appear in Apex Book Company’s Robotic Ambitions anthology, the Kickstarter for which launches on February 21st. Robotic Ambitions will feature stories looking at mechanical sentience, and […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Justice/Vengeance

| February 1, 2023

Today’s Kickstarter recommendation is my friend Erik Scott de Bie’s Justice/Vengeance novel series, which I’m also the editor for. The base Kickstarter funds the first book, Libations for the Dead, and the stretch goals will cover other novels in the series. Libations is a great book, introducing a hero with a lot of questions about […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Shacklebound Books

| January 25, 2023

If you like reading flash fiction and drabbles, check out the Kickstarter for the second year of Shacklebound Books! They publish loads of drabble and flash fiction anthologies, plus a drabble magazine, Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles. They’ve published a few of my pieces in their first year, and I’m excited to see […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: LOLCraft from Dragon’s Roost Press

| November 2, 2022

Another press who will be printing one of my stories has launched a Kickstarter for their anthology! Dragon’s Roost Press is publishing LOLCraft, which will include my story, “Hashtag TPE,” a humorous look at a college tour at Miskatonic University. Their backer options include ebook and print versions of this anthology, along with some of the […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: Paradoxical Pets

| October 19, 2022

I’m super excited about the Kickstarter for Paradoxical Pets because I’ve got a story in this anthology! The anthology is, as expected, about unusual pets and other animals, but it’s also specifically for younger readers! For me, this meant I got to write a cute little story about a girl and her dog … which might […]

Kickstarter Recommendation: The Best of Mythic Volume Two

| August 31, 2022

The Kickstarter for The Best of Mythic Volume Two has already reached its funding goal, but I wanted to put in a plug for it as a great way to get a collection of wonderful stories! You can get this volume and its predecessor in ebook or paperback. Bonus: both volumes contain stories by me! The […]

On Kickstarter: Tales and Feathers

| February 9, 2022

If you’re interested in “slice of life” or quieter fantasy stories, the sort where the weight of the world is not on the protagonist’s shoulders, check out the Kickstarter for Tales and Feathers, a new magazine coming soon. I’m very excited for this magazine as both a reader and an author, because sometimes it’s nice to […]

Three Cool Kickstarters!

| December 15, 2021

There’s always a lot of cool stuff to be found on Kickstarter, but here are three projects that have caught my attention! The first is From Big Idea to Book: Create a Writing Practice that Brings You Joy. While many books on writing advice retread the same territory that many experienced authors have already covered, […]

Coming Soon on Kickstarter: I Am the First

| November 3, 2021

Author Jeremy Flagg (author of the Children of Nostradamus series) and artist Amanda Kahl (primary author and sole artist for Age of Night) have teamed up to create I Am the First, a graphic novel that spotlights a gay youth as he overcomes trauma and untangles his identity while dealing with uncanny abilities. For many, this […]