Writing Cliffhangers or Not… #IWSG
Question: Do you write cliffhangers at the end of your stories? Are they a turn-off to you as a writer and/or a reader? Let’s talk about cliffhangers, or rather what is meant by them. To me there are two different type of cliffhangers that end books. There are...
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back (The Evolution of an Author)
I grew up believing I was “bad at being a girl” and when I got older I was “bad at being female”. It took me forty seven years to figure out that I was both neurodivergent (AuDHD among some others, thank you very much) and trans. Because...
Excerpt: Draco Magus (#SnippetSunday)
Excerpt Deanna smirked at the incongruity of someone claiming magical creatures weren’t real when the Great Dividing had shown everyone that magic was more real and more widespread than anyone had ever believed. She reached up and petted the creature sitting on her...
Through A Portal Storm: First Midwinter (A standalone short story)
This story may contain spoilers for future episodes of Through A Portal Storm as it takes place in the “future” from the current released point in the serial. If you would like to read this serial, please become a free follower to unlock one episode a...
The Search for Apollo's Chalice: Seven: Time Wobbles and the Brotherhood (Part One)
“You’re back. What did you find out?” Dela asked as she stepped into the travel room with Freckles. She seemed anxious, as if something had happened, and I feared our hasty retreat had messed up the timeline. That was always a danger, but if the world as we knew it...
New (re)Release: Draco Magus
I’ve been meaning to make blog entries when I re-release books (or release completely new ones). I’ve been busy working on the serial stories (*points to sidebar for links to sign up*) and with college and work stuff right now, that I hadn’t gotten...
Through A Portal Storm: Fourteen: Bonds of Magic
Tye finished organizing the last of the samples and the results so he could begin looking for similarities. Leianne divided her time between the Council and the lab, and he’d finally convinced her to stop apologizing. Her father’s startling health turn drove them...
Serving Up A Basket of Gratitude
I’m really close to re-releasing one of my fantasy books (dragons!) that has sparked an idea (NOOOOOOO! (said the way Kirk says KHAAAAAAAN!) for ways to add to my academy series. Still getting my feet back underneath me from that burnout or whatever the hell it...
The Search for Apollo's Chalice: Six: The Cult Revealed (Part Two)
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