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The cover of The Cinderella Hour by Lisa Silverthorne, epic celestial romantasy: image of a glowing glass slipper hovering over purple feathers with a swirling magical aura.

Love, Death, and Destiny: An Epic Celestial Romantasy that Spans Across Lisa Silverthorne’s A Game of Lost Souls Series

Series Note: I have the privilege of living in the same community as Lisa Silverthorne, so I get to hear the behind-the-scenes stories about the writing of her books. The Game of Lost Souls series started as a single book, and now the series has thirteen entries (with more expected). So if you like these […]

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The cover of Song of Siren and Blood by Thomas K. Carpenter, musical fantasy series: image of a richly decorated golden and blue book cover featuring celestial symbols, chains, and an ornate sun-and-moon design.

Magic and Song: Playing for Keeps in Thomas K. Carpenter’s Musical Fantasy Series, Stone Singers

Series Note: Thomas Carpenter writes in a lot of series, but his Hundred Halls series has 40 novels and counting. There are subseries on subseries here, and Stone Singer Hall is one of them. You’ll get almost 1500 pages of great fiction in this bundle alone. And then you’ll have 35 other books of Tom’s

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The cover of Dolphin Knight by Robert Jeschonek, offbeat fantasy stories: image of a young woman in white robes riding a giant dolphin through an underwater realm filled with glowing creatures.

Unforgettable Worlds: Offbeat Fantasy Stories from Planet Bob in Robert Jeschonek’s Fantasy Stories

Series Note: Robert Jeschonek provides a short story collection and novels in the same series. All with the patented Jeschonek perspective, which is fun and original and like nothing else you’ve ever read before. Bob has published a lot of books, so if these are your introduction to his work…well, let’s just say, you’re one

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The cover of A Prisoner to Spring by Brigid Collins, mythical fantasy romance: image of a woman in a flowing blue gown standing in a magical winter landscape, surrounded by frost-covered trees and glowing lights.

Love, Magic, and Faery Bargains: Mythical Fantasy Romance in Brigid Collins’ Winter’s Consort Series

Series Note: I let the authors choose their own books for a StoryBundle. That way I don’t have to keep track of what’s been in previous bundles. I read a lot of Brigid Collins’ writing and love it all, but I missed this series somehow. As I was putting together the StoryBundle, this paragraph caught

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The cover of Dragon’s Call by Ann Gimpel, epic fantasy dragons: image of a fierce red-haired woman wielding magic, standing before a massive dragon with glowing eyes and misty surroundings.

Fire and Fate: Soaring Along with Epic Fantasy Dragons in Ann Gimpel’s Dragon Heir Series

Series Note: USA Today bestseller Ann Gimpel gives us much needed dragons. Lots of dragons! You’ll probably devour these fast-moving novels quickly, but never fear. Ann has published more than 100 books, so I suspect you’ll find even more to read. – Kristine Kathryn Rusch Series Description: The fate of the world lies in the

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The cover of The Queen of Stilled Hearts by DeAnna Knippling, dark fairy tale retelling: image of a playing card-style illustration of a regal queen with an ornate dress, drawn in deep red and ivory tones.

Wonderland Shadows: Exploring the Dark Fairy Tale Retelling of DeAnna Knippling’s Alternate Alices Series

Series Note: DeAnna Knippling has a wonderfully skewed way of looking at the world. So when she decided to take on Alice in Wonderland, I saw a match made in heaven. These books are dark but they’re also intriguing and beautifully written. Escape down the rabbit hole…and then find that the rabbit hole isn’t the

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The cover of Hollywood Ending by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, urban fantasy legal series: image of a glamorous woman with wavy brown hair, wearing elegant attire against a blurred cityscape background.

Unmasking Justice: Urban Fantasy Legal Drama in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Faerie Justice Series

Series Note: For years, I have written stories about the magical in World War II. If faeries existed (and I believe they do), I needed to figure out why they weren’t using their magic to stop that particular conflagration. Five short stories and three novellas later, I still don’t have an answer, but I know

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Cover image for Fantasy Bundle of Bundles, from Storybundle: 38 fantasy novel covers

Storybundle fantasy bundle of bundles & The Zombification of the Snark

So I’m participating in a bundle promotion at Storybundle for the Fantasy Bundle of Bundles (Storybundle was bound to go a little meta on bundles at some point!) with my different Alice in Wonderland books as an “Alternate Alices” collection. I wrote an exclusive for the collection–I’d started a zombified short story based on Lewis

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Recipe: Okonomiyaki

Ray and I had a lot of leftover homemade yakitori after New Year’s Day, and I’d been wanting to try making okonomiyaki, so we went for it. Unfortunately most of the recipes I found wanted some sort of special grated yam that I didn’t have and was too lazy to track down. Fortunately I found

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