The Fiction River anthology series is starting off its second year with Past Crime. And I have a story in it! New World Gambles is historic mystery that takes place in 1830 or so, in Victoria, BC, during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Here’s the description of the anthology: Laws change from culture […]
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No, I’m not advocating taking off all your clothing and running around like a crazy thing. (Though I’m not saying don’t do it either, if that’s your kind of thing…) I’ve started keeping track of a writing streak. I started counting Tuesday October 14th. So a little over a month, now. I’ve written at least
Y’all know when I said that I was only going to have The Last Dancing Leaves available until Nov 15th? I lied. It will actually be available as a free story until Nov 30th. The blurb: The adults claimed that the electro-magnetic-pulse (EMP) knocked the world offline. But nothing came back online afterward. And so
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I’m so excited! My next novel is available! Wheee! Here’s the blurb: A different kind of ugly duckling story. Christine works at her dream job in the archives at a university library, loses sleep most every night to reading, lives mostly in her dreams. But can’t find what she’s really looking for. After losing a
The Changeling Troll is now available! Read More »
The Last Dancing Leaves is currently available as free fiction until November 15th. The blurb: The adults claim that the electro-magnetic-pulse (EMP) knocked the world offline. But nothing came back online afterward. And so the old world died. Something important had changed. Rifts opened. Myst pooled in the cities and other places men lived, killing
Knotted Road Press, my publishing company, is proud to announce a new author joining the press, Terry Brodbeck Ward. Terry’s debut book is an autobiography. “When I was growing up, I thought all children spent their childhood living on a carnival. It wasn’t until I was taking an English class in college that I realized
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I just finished the last book in the trilogy, A Sword’s Poem!!!!! YAY! HUZZAH!!! The three combined are over 100,000 words. They will all grow significantly as well during the “make it not broke” phase, as all three are pretty broken currently. But still. I wrote the last chapter this morning. Am very pleased and
Poisoned Pearls is being excerpted for Story Except Sunday, over on Book View Cafe. Go check it out!
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Woo and hoo! One of the very first short stories I ever sold was The Red Boots to Terry Windling and Ellen Datlow, for their anthology of retold fairy tales, Black Hearts, Ivory Bones. That anthology has now been reissued as an ebook, along with all the other anthologies in that series! I’m kind of
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In an ideal world, I’d be able to write and publish an absolutely brilliant novel once a month, every month. At this point, I can’t. I may never be able to. But I have been looking at my individual processes, trying to tweak them and so speed up the entire process, and possibly gain more
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