A World Remarkably Like Our Own
The Emperor Causes a Scene Special thanks to all the people who made this free ebook possible: Emily Deady, Amelia Leedom, Mary Pelchat, and Marta Suer! Listen to the audiobook here. Read chapter 1 here. Philothea and Zoe entered the temple by one of the side doors and crept through the dark corridors toward theContinue reading “The Laughing Empress Chapter 2”
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Philothea’s Problem Special thanks to the people who made this free book possible: Emily Deady Christopher Woods, Madeline Shepley, Grace Woods, Melissa Ring, Amelia Leedom, Max Woods, Gregory Woods. Click this link to listen to the audiobook! Don’t breathe, Philothea repeated to herself over and over again. The room was utterly silent. She was sitting at aContinue reading “The Laughing Empress Chapter 1”
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Hello folks! I have some announcements for December! Announcement #1: Free BookFunnel Promo First of all, I am participating in my first BookFunnel promotion in a long time. 75 authors are participating in this free Sci-Fi/Fantasy promotion, so if you are looking for your next read, check it out here: BookFunnel I am personally excitedContinue reading “New Book, Author Shop, and More!”
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I’m modernizing my business model. My readers keep their Kindles full to bursting. Their appetite for great books is much bigger than their wallets. So they scrounge around the internet for free ebooks, wait for giveaways, and sign up for ARCs. These wonderful readers would happily support every single author if they could. Unfortunately, moneyContinue reading “I’m making my ebooks free. No, I’m not crazy.”
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This summer, I began talks with a major Catholic publisher who was interested in acquiring my book Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors. The acquisitions team at that publisher loved the book. It passed through one editorial meeting after another with flying colors. The last step for them was to get approval from the business and marketing team. That’sContinue reading “I might give up writing…”
I stare out at the rolling waves—dark blue and grey, framed by puffs of white foam. The incident fills my mind, my heart, my soul. I remember the bloodstains, the screaming, the horror in Aunt Jane’s eyes… Something nudges my hand—a tiny green crab. I watch as it scuttles away toward the surf. Then, somethingContinue reading “The Blog Post That Won’t Get to the Point”
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Did you know that the Osa, my fan-favorite canine heroine, was partially inspired by a real dog I befriended in Mexico? This blurry photo I got on a CVS disposable camera doesn’t do justice to her happy, spunky soul. This was taken in 2006 before smartphones, or… before I had a smartphone. I wrote aContinue reading “The Real Osa”
Osa whimpered as she sniffed the carnage on the grass beside the Bin Supreme. The Bin Supreme was the tallest of all the sacred bins in the house of the gods, Rodriguez. Every week, God Juan would collect the offerings from the smaller bins throughout his dwelling place and take them outside to the BinContinue reading “Osa and the Masked Heretic”
Here is the latest political scandal from the fish people of the planet Bosun. If you’d like to read about the previous scandals first, here you go: A Fish Dichotomy The Bosunians Need Kelp Megalomess All of the politicians on the planet Bosun are carp. By which I mean that they are reverse merpeople withContinue reading “Short Story: You’re A Sucker”
For today’s story, we are going back to the fish planet Bosun. If you are unfamiliar with Bosun, check out my previous fish stories here: A Fish Dichotomy The Bosunians Need Kelp Dr. Mizzen Sternway was a fish scientist and I don’t mean she was an ichthyologist. I mean that she was a reverse merpersonContinue reading “Short Story: Megalomess”
The Fables of Para Sympan 