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Book Cover: Unfixed Timelines Volume 4
Unfixed Timelines Volume 4

Recent Releases!

Book Cover: Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
Justice/Vengeance: Inferno by Erik Scott de Bie
Inferno
The Complete Mad World Cycle
The Complete Mad World Cycle
Afoul & Affairs, Amanda Cherry.
Afoul & Affairs
Book Cover: An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel
An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel
Wrecker of Engines – Tales of Cobalt City’s Adventurers Club, Rosemary Jones.
Wrecker of Engines - Tales of Cobalt City's Adventurers Club
Bad Intentions, a Cobalt City Universe Story. Erik Scott de Bie. Amanda Cherry.
Bad Intentions
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  • WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: Practical Tips for Avoiding Ableism in Your Writing

    Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. Today, I’m talking about the “Practical Tips for Avoiding Ableism in Your Writing” presentation from Nicoletta Poungias. I took a screenshot of my comment on this presentation, which I watched during the WriteHive weekend,

  • “A Year Without an October” and “Hatching a Plan” in Weathering Youth

    Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “A Year Without an

  • WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: How to Level Up Your Self-Editing Skills

    Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. Today, I’m talking about “How to Level Up Your Self-Editing Skills.” I’ve been editing for decades, but I always find there’s something more to learn on the topic. The vast majority of my editing

  • Fun for Friday with Big Pink Book Prompt 15: Leisure?

    There’s a lot going on in the image of how I used prompt 15 in the Big Pink Book, so let’s dive in! Since I had the washi tape across the top of the page, I turned the book sideways to write my list, which led to a weird page with the caption on both

  • “Queen of the Roller Disco” in This Book Has Ghosts in It

    My story “Queen of the Roller Disco” in This Book Has Ghosts in It is a flash fiction piece I wrote back in 2023, with the inspiration of being “a place you love is haunted” and a list of words that included “skate,” which immediately jumped out at me. From 2010-2012, I was first a referee

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