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Right. If you would like to be a first reader on a 42K Victorian fantasy short novel with some sex, a soupcon of WTFery, and a gallon of smartassery, let me know; I’ll send it out on Monday. Sample: James sprinted to the door and flung it open. In the brief glimpse I had before […]

Available from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and Smashwords.  Awaiting Apple. Be Good DeAnna Knippling Laurie Lee can only watch across the fields as the tornado comes barrelling down on the Home, a place where parents send their kids when they’ve been bad–a place from which her Pa has been saving runaways for years. In the destruction, she finds a choice:

Cover updates on ebooks continues! Things You Don’t Want but Have to Take DeAnna Knippling Madeline lived an ordinary life, married to a company man, staying home all day to help out at church, bake cookies, and pretend that she had never been anything but a housewife. Then the past comes back to haunt her:

Lee asked me last week what should go in the empty video rental store locations. I like thinking up business ideas: I don’t actually want to do the work of implementing them, I just like thinking them out.  I should start using these businesses in stories.  Sheesh.  My last one was for a corner pan-ethnic

So everyone has a few books, movies–stories–from childhood that don’t bear examination.  My childhood went on longer than most in that respect (and is still going on), and so I’m going to use the first Dragonlance series as my example here, which I didn’t read until early college.  I was an English major, and was

You can get Guinea Pig Apocalypse at these online retailers, with more to come: Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords.  B&N had issues when I went to post the story so it’s running late, should be up tomorrow.  Amazon’s alllllmost there.  I can feel it. Update: Now with B&N availability! Pleeeeaase keep in mind that this is middle-grade fiction, ages 9-13

Grimdark:  what is it?  I had no idea until recently, other than it pisses off authors who are labeled with it.  So I looked it up.  This turned out to be a bad idea, because it’s a bigger subject than I should probably get into at six-thirty in the morning on a school day with

If I collected all the reviews I’ve written over the years, I would probably have enough to make a novel. But when I don’t record what I read somehow, I pick up books that I’ve read before from the library or the bookstore or whatever.  I do.  I seriously do, especially series books and nonfiction.

Writer Friends in COS/DEN area: I want to try something weird, a collaborative novel project using a particular technique. The specifics (like genre) will vary on who/how many/where the people are who want to jump in. I want to run this something like a writer group, where we meet for a couple of hours and

You can get it at these places, with more to come: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords. Red Meat Riding Hood by DeAnna Knippling Once upon a time…in some very strange woods indeed. Once upon a time in a forest so far away as to be entirely unlike the forests that you get around here, a little girl realized that it was