An independent publishing co-op
I am on vacation this week so just a quick excerpt from my most recent book. Veiled in Mist out with Mocha Memoirs Press. The boards creaked on the porch outside. A silhouette passed along the frosted glass of the front door. Narissa grabbed the glass knob to open the door. Her canine dropped his…
[This is not a political post. Let me get that out of the way right now.] The last two weeks have been a bit harrowing for the people of the US. We’re on unstable ground morally, ethically, and politically. Tensions are high, opinions are loud, and there isn’t a whole lot of room for rational…
Here is the second except from the little weird thing I’ve been working on here and there in segments. This section is called A Walk in the Woods. Her most recent excursion into the same wood brought a different feeling with it. All the questioning remained as to what she was, that never went away,…
Years ago, when I first started writing with an eye toward publication, common wisdom held that we were supposed to write short stories and sell them to genre magazines, as a foot in the door. This was back in the days of SASEs and waiting weeks to hear if a story had found a home….
Hey, y’all! It’s September, which means we’ve made it to my favorite time of year — the ‘ber months! Pumpkin spice is back (everybody looks at Lexx and me like we’re nuts, but we love it), and it’s almost time for sweater weather. To celebrate, let’s talk about… books! Fall romance, to be exact. I’m…
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I’ve been walking this dusty road for over twenty years. It seems like yesterday I was slogging through the phone book thick tome of the latest Writer’s Market looking for agents. You know, back before digital was a thing. In my early years, I sent out packets of my first book to agents trying to…
“I really don’t know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!”—Robert B. Parker This is the Shenanigators blog and we love all things science fiction, fandoms and speculative fiction in general. You may be wondering why the title of…
How did I get here? I sometimes wonder. My introduction to books was my grandmother reading to me at bedtime. My grandparents were literary people. My grandmother was a Special Education Teacher and my grandfather was a minister. They basically raised me which meant I was surrounded by books when I was at their house….
There’s a place I see in my dreams. It’s a flat meadow with several tributaries trickling off a small creek behind a stack of boulders at the back of the open space. A few wildflowers grow in the grassy spots, but nothing thorny or dangerous. It’s deep enough in the woods to be away from…
