Uncollected Anthology: Beasties Universal Book Link | Goodreads (reviews) All sorts of things make their way into a city. They come, they breed, they adapt. One day, you’re looking at a raccoon breaking into a garbage can. The next day, you’re not sure what you’re looking at, but it has intelligent eyes, lizard scales, and tentacles. Should you […]
The Defenders of Dreams Series I started a new series – or rather continued a story that I had put up a while ago and turned it into a series for middle-graders (9-12 y.o.). These aren’t picture books or chapter books (like Magic Tree House), but more on the level of Percy Jackson or early
When I was growing up, I loved visiting abandoned places. I grew up on a farm in the 1980s. Haunted houses, old trash landfills in gullies, rusting farm equipment, and half-collapsed buildings were a major part of my landscape. My world seemed ancient and nostalgic, as if I lived in an actual post-apocalyptic society that
Cat Tales Issue #1 Universal Book Link | Goodreads (reviews) No matter where you go, no matter what you do, some cat, somewhere, is always watching you! Nine tales of cat magic, suitable for reading in front of clever, adorable, and even irascible cats.
I’ve always been interested in folk and fairy tales, as far back as I can remember. I grew up with Grimm’s fairy tales, as a lot of people like me do, and for a long time I thought that was that: Grimm’s was how a fairy tale should be told. Later, of course, I started
Ever After Fairy Tales #2: Innocence and Deceit Universal Buy Link | Goodreads (reviews) Cinderella’s not so innocent, but neither is Prince Charming. Innocence and Deceit, the second volume in the Ever After Fairy Tales anthology series, contains fourteen fairy tales retold, reimagined, and reinvented. Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales! Contains my short story,
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Side note – I’m trying to write more articles for readers (instead of or in addition to helping writers get better at their craft). Normally, the advice that writers get on “what to blog about” is to write about the same thing that you’re researching for your current works in progress. Right now, I’m working
Universal Buy Link | Goodreads | Author Website Author Facebook Page | Author Goodreads Page | Author Twitter Author Amazon Page Welcome to fellow author Jamie Ferguson! Previous interviews with Richard Bamberg, Rob Chansky, P.R. Adams, Megan Rutter, Jason Dias, MJ Bell, and Shannon Lawrence are also available. … 1. First, tell us about bundles and other beasts. Briefly, what are they, who should buy them, and where can
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This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series when
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Parents … PROSPERITY GOSPEL Where was it said, where was it written, that one had
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