Baseball’s weird enough on its own. Add magic, a little heartbreak, and a few surprises in the outfield, and the game changes fast. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. About Home Run Enchanted Strike thrice upon the bone-white plate, call to home some bloodthirsty fate. Do […]
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Sometimes magic shows up in the unlikeliest creatures. These stories of magical animal creatures follow the ones who don’t quite fit—and the people who stumble across them. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. About Unexpected Critters From a mouse with a compulsion to paint the monster
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The Wee Beasties Storybundle I’ve joined a new StoryBundle, and this one has teeth. The Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is all about creatures that look small and harmless…right up until they don’t. Fairies, pixies, halflings, cats, mice, corgis, ghosts, orcs playing baseball, elves playing baseball, bats, rats, and other assorted critters
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So let’s say you’ve written a story and decide to publish it as an indie author. You have done your research, made connections, and both asked for and followed advice. Your story is of reasonable quality, it’s reasonably free of typos, and it’s got a reasonable cover, description, and all the little bits and bobs
Now available: House of Masks The House of Masks: A Gothic Space Opera Kickstarter was a success! And now it’s time to go live to online bookstores. House of Masks is a 500+-page standalone space opera with modern Gothic sensibilities, the epic scope of a Dickens novel, and a slow build to chaos. Buy now About
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This is a children’s story, which means that I can get away with saying things I want to say to adults by saying them to children instead.–Miss Emma, Librarian New Project! I’m posting a heads-up for a project that I’m starting today, a sequel to my middle-grade horror novel The Witch House. (Middle-grade = ages 9-12.) If you’re
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So hear me out: I think that modern Gothic fiction depends on not just rehashing old Gothic tropes, but including elements from the modern Goth subculture. Reviewing recent novels that are labeled strictly as Gothic leads to a certain paucity of choices, a sense of the same stories being told over and over out of
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I mean… I would like to announce that My new gothic space opera novel, House of Masks, is live on Kickstarter. If you love modern gothic fiction with a science fiction twist (and have feeling a bit like you might want to set a few things on fire lately), please click the button to take
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So I’ve read a lot of both classic and modern Gothic fiction over the years. Gothic stories make me happy…I mean, in a cynical, disaffected, melancholy and perhaps overly dramatic way, they make me happy. I suspect it’s because I grew up in the 1980s and am neurodivergent, and had to crawl under my desk
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AI writing is easy…and that’s a problem You’ve been working with AI a lot lately and have figured out how to use it to help improve your writing. Emails, blog posts, website text, social media, fiction, essays, resumes, white papers, slide decks, report summaries, book reports, homework, sales copy…you name it. The basic process goes
