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Big Pink Book Stars and Rainbows! (Prompt 9)

| August 7, 2026

On Monday, I posted the blank version of this page, and today, I’m back to show you how I used it. The first thing I did was to mark the text, “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars,” to flip the elements, making it “When it rains, look for stars. […]

July 2026 Recap and Publications

| August 6, 2026

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 41 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 18 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 23 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 45 I felt a little like I hadn’t done many submissions in July, but the numbers are better than I thought! […]

“Autumn Days and Autumn Nights” in This Book Has Ghosts in It

| August 4, 2026

“Autumn Days and Autumn Nights” is a flash fiction piece that involves a necromancer and a graveyard, but that somehow winds up being a fairly sweet and cozy piece. The unnamed necromancer raises the dead, sure, but she also respects and cares for the dead. It’s possibly one of the less creepy stories in this […]

The Big Pink Book Prompt 9: Stars and Rainbows

| August 3, 2026

The next prompt in the Big Pink Book has a handful of small stickers, some washi tape, and a bit of text. The text reads “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” The small stickers include three gold stars below the text. At the top left, there’s a Winnie the […]