So. If you've ever had a fear of vacuum cleaners, this story may not be for you. http://t.co/Cgij9eqh # On the other hand, if you know someone with a fear of vacuum cleaners, this story may make a perfect brat gift. http://t.co/Cgij9eqh # At any rate, I have discussed never getting me a Roomba with …
Available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, B&N, and more. This story was originally published in Crossed Genres #30. Paid by DeAnna Knippling Time travel in a multiverse sounded great…except that some of inventor Beauregard’s alternate selves aren’t so nice. Now he’s a private dick hiring himself out to try to clean up the mess he made. Beauregard is called …
In brief, the news this week is…still trying to get my head screwed back on. I may be done learning Wonderful New Things for a bit, as my brain is screaming at me to stop thinking, and how often does that happen? Rarely. This story was originally published in Crossed Genres #30. Available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, B&N, and …
I finally finished a rewrite on a short story that I like, that keeps getting rejected. I ended up…I don’t know, maybe saving two particularly clever lines and a handful of ones generic enough not to need changing. Plot? Different. Character voices? Different. Settings? Different for the last half of the story. One of those …
My Mom Ate My Homework by De Kenyon Available at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon.com, and more. Aya’s mom just told her to pick up her stuff for the 1,001th time…she was almost going to pick it up for reals, but then her mom gets turned into a cleanicidal vacuum cyborg. And now Aya’s almost late for school… Aya held …
I went into a big long stinkin’ deal about how and why I wrote this story over at my blog, if you’re interested. But it’s mostly writer stuff, so don’t read it if you don’t want the writer stuff. But now, presenting… My Mom Ate My Homework by De Kenyon Available at Smashwords, B&N, Amazon.com, and more. This …
Okay, if you just want the cover and blurb, scroll down till you see the cover. There aren’t any spoilers in the following (other than a very rough clue about the kind of ending it has), and it’s all talk about how and why I put the story together the way I did. — This …
**** Excellent Male main character who should appeal to both boys and girls. There’s a girl character later on, but you never really get into her. Gran, although not a ten-year-old, definitely rocks by the end of the book. About 100 pages. In short: Ten-year-old Sam Jones has about had it with getting shuffled off to Gran’s …
