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 Hello, all! I have a story out in a new anthology, Ever After Fairy Tales #2: Innocence and Deceit, “Dr. Rudolfo Meets his Match.”  The editor, Jamie Ferguson, said she had a lot of Cinderella retellings in this one, but they were all so different she just decided to run with it.  Also new is the […]

Hello, all! So far, so good for January.  I finished The House Without Summer!  I’ll be asking soon if anyone wants to beta-read it or get a formatted Advanced Reader’s Copy (ARC).  It’s gothic fiction set in 1816, with drama and monsters.  Let me know if you’re interested; I’m starting a list.   Happy Groundhog’s Day,

I wanted to tell an animal joke but its irrelephant. Hello, all! I got tired of how I’d been doing the newsletter (and depressed about how bad I am at Patreon), so I’m trying something different.   I got jealous of someone else’s newsletter, which was much simpler-looking than mine, and suddenly realized that the new format might

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When you’re working a day job, there’s a clear set of guidelines for getting stuff done:  show up and get paid.  There’s a performance review every year, and sometimes you’ll get feedback from your bosses and coworkers. And yet these metrics have nothing to do with whether you actually accomplished something, do they?  Not really.

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