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Book Cover: Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman
Sure Shot Stories: Tales of the Lady Huntsman

Recent Releases!

Bounty of the Atoll by Dawn Vogel
Bounty of the Atoll
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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  • Fun for Friday: June 2026 Writing Prompts!

    We’re already to the last weekend of May, which means it’s time for the June 2026 writing prompts! This month, the first column comes from Doodlewash’s June 2017 World Watercolor Group prompt list. This list is very themed toward summertime and very normal. But it could be interesting to think about what this modern world

  • “Knock Three Times” in Chimerical Remembrance

    “Knock Three Times” is one of the longer stories in my Chimerical Remembrance collection. It was inspired by a YouTube video about weird history, some interesting images, and a song I love. The YouTube video was about the history of Pheasant Island, which is an uninhabited island in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain that

  • “It’s My Party and I’ll Scry If I Want To” and “No Bunny Like You” 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! “It’s My Party and

  • Fun For Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, “We go together like …”

    As promised, here’s my version of the second prompt from the Big Pink Book! I numbered the washi tape dots from 1 through 20, but I also made two columns. The left-hand column is genres, and the right-hand column is locations. I also added an extra sticker to this page–a d20 that looks like a

  • The Sun in A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages

    The Sun tarot card represents the success, joy, and vitality. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a flash fiction piece. The haiku, named “a victory won” after the first line, embodies the first of the meanings of the Sun tarot card, success. The flash fiction piece, “The

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