Monthly Archives: October 2021

Guest Post: The Best Halloween Ever by Wendy Wagner

Halloween has always been my very favorite holiday. I have a brilliant memory of being four years old and dressed as a bat, holding hands with my sister (dressed as a Rubik’s cube) eating powdered sugar donuts at the local … Continue reading

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New On-Demand Class! Writing Non-Romantic Relationships

Now that I finally turned in DEVIL’S GUN, I had the time to finish pulling together another on-demand class, this time a version of my Different Kinds of Love: Writing Non-Romantic Relationships workshop. It expanded in the making, and I … Continue reading

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Guest Post: Food and Politics by Juliet Kemp

I’m a city person (despite the occasional dream of country solitude), and a crucial part of the worldbuilding for my Marek series of fantasy novels has been the city of Marek itself. It’s been a lot of fun to create. … Continue reading

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Guest Post: Writing Uplifting Stories by Casey Blair

A few years ago, I decided to try writing a fantasy book as a web serial. It was a project I came to for a lot of reasons, but one of the keys was that I wanted to have a … Continue reading

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Less Than a Month to You Sexy Thing’s Arrival!

I’m counting down the days till YOU SEXY THING comes out. It’s not my first published novel, but it’s my first one with a major publisher, Tor Macmillan, and it’s a book that I have enjoyed writing SO much! I … Continue reading

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Video: Using the Word Frequency Count Feature in Scrivener for Editing

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Guest Post: Storytelling Ourselves Out of Paralysis

Storytelling Ourselves Out of Paralysis by Christina De La Rocha and Ariel Kroon One of the best things about science fiction is that it lets us try futures on for size. Do you look good in dystopia, finding the hero … Continue reading

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Guest Post: Writing with Cannabis by Derek Nason

Do you like getting high sometimes? Do you like writing? Have you always suspected that these two activities would go really well together but didn’t know how? Well, here’s how. I’m going to share my favorite buds to write with … Continue reading

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