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As you may know, I read slush for the wonderful Apex Magazine.  I previously posted some tips for submission, but someone asked me to write some up, and I ended up with different ones.  Who knew! Here they are: There are a lot of decent stories out there.  You have to better than all of them […]

I lived!  Fortunately, I knew quite a few people in the room at the Pikes Peak Romance Writers meeting, although I have to admit I kind of went into extrovert mode for a while and thus into an altered state in which I can’t quite remember everything that happened.  Weird, that.  I finally got to talk to

Now available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles, and OmniLit.  Coming soon at other online bookstores. Hand of Glory by DeAnna Knippling Young adult/Crime/Coming of age.  An MMORPG Noir…I think I’ve been playing too much World of Warcraft and Rifts lately. This cover was designed by the excellent Zachary Lin.  The story was actually written to fit the inspiration from

**** Recommended, for horror enthusiasts only though. This was a straightforward but spectacularly EWWW horror short story. A couple of exterminators have to clean up a house that’s rumored to be haunted and discover more than they bargained for: it’s either going to be a retread or it’s going to be a classic, depending on

*****Highly recommended. A cop, a dad, or a superhero? The main character’s daughter, who, if I remember correctly, is sixteen or seventeen, has the same superpowers as her father, but chooses to use them with the young guns. A nice story about reconciling the irreconcilable. Superteens…gotta love ’em.

Over the last few weeks, I have designed several covers, including two for POD books (which I put more time into than the weekly stories, honestly), and worked with an honest-to-goodness graphic designer in training (not my brother) on an ebook cover, which meant I had to explain ebook stuff. Some thoughts: Simple ebook cover

Now available at Smashwords, OmniLit, B&N, and Amazon.com. The Vengeance Quilt by DeAnna Knippling God’s work weighs on Sebastian, a new priest, harder than most.  But dealing with demons is his penance, and God never makes a burden harder than you can carry.  Or so he believes when the rivalry between two of his parishioners spirals into

The first couple of years that I was in college, I would do something incredibly stupid from time to time.  Well, I suppose whether you think it’s stupid or not depends on when you were raised…no, the reason why you might think it was stupid would depend on when you were raised, I think. I

If you are interested in a print copy of Tales Told Under the Covers:  Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories, it’s available throughCreateSpace for $9.99, plus shipping.  Within a week, it should be available via Amazon, and after a few weeks, through other online venues.  Eventually, I’ll set up my own store…but not today 🙂  

NaNoWriMo is coming up. For those of you who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month is a project that some guy, Chris Baty, and his friends just started doing one year.  Like all writers at one time or another, they decided to bite off more than they could chew. “Hey! Let’s write a novel in