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C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives Out Today!

| May 31, 2022

Today, the follow up to my middle grade book, The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby, is out! It’s called C. and M. Marsh, Girl Detectives, and it’s jam packed with short story adventures of Chrysanthemum and Marigold Marsh, inhabitants of the mechanical garden! This includes the first story I wrote for publication, “The Recondite Riddle […]

Writing in a Shared World Panel at the Nebulas

| May 30, 2022

At the Nebulas award weekend, I attended a TON of panels, but I spoke on one panel about Writing in a Shared World, with M. Darusha Wehm, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, and Noah K. Sturtevant. We each had a variety of levels of involvement in shared world projects, from publishers and organizers of all the pieces to […]

Fun for Friday: June 2022 Writing Prompts!

| May 27, 2022

This year is flying past for me! Here we are, staring down the beginning of June, summer vacation for kids, and possibly summer weather if you’re in the northern hemisphere. So it’s time for the June 2022 writing prompts! June has had a bunch of art challenges in the past (not all of which are […]

Superhero Reading

| May 26, 2022

I’ve got more superhero books available than any other genre of books I’ve published! Check out all the possibilities. Heroes of Necessity is my collection of women becoming unlikely superheroes. All four of the women in this collection have powers, but only one of them would consider herself a superhero (and she considers herself more […]

TV Recommendation: Our Flag Means Death

| May 25, 2022

I think it’s safe to say at this point that if a project has Taika Waititi’s name attached to it, it will be a hit in our household. His latest show, Our Flag Means Death, is no exception. We didn’t jump on watching it right away only because we were working through other shows. But once […]

Japanese Legends in Old Legends and New Fables

| May 24, 2022

Among the many legends and fables my pieces in Old Legends and New Fables touch upon, I have one small piece related to Japanese legends. “The View from Mount Fuji” is about a meteor or comet, with a brief mention of the oni. And while that’s a very broad group of legendary creatures, they were an […]

Approaching Personal Feedback

| May 23, 2022

As a writer with a lot of stories and poems, I do a lot of submitting my stories to markets. Of course, the flipside of that is that I receive a lot of rejections on my stories. Many markets take fewer than 1 percent of the stories submitted to them. This means that even if […]

Fun for Friday: Bunches of Writing Prompts!

| May 20, 2022

When you’re staring at a blank page with no ideas, pop over to Wrighting Words’ list of writing prompts! Whether you do best with random bits of dialogue, titles, or random words, there are a bunch of different ways to get your writing started! With six different categories to choose from, you could even pick […]

Have You Checked Out Doorways in the Gloom?

| May 19, 2022

Have you had a chance to check out Doorways in the Gloom? It’s got a bunch of spooky stories and poetry just waiting to scare and unsettle you! Doorways can lead to many marvelous places. In this collection, however, the scenes they reveal are shrouded in gloom and darkness. See where the doorways take you in […]

Don’t Forget to Sign Up for the Superhero Day Raffle!

| May 18, 2022

Have you signed up for the Superhero-Fiction.com raffle yet? You could win 18 superhero books in paperback, or one of the ebook packages! If you haven’t already done it, you’ve got ten more days to get signed up! From action to romance and everything in between, this is a must-have prize package. It includes my […]