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The Faerie Summer has begun!

The Faerie Summer bundle is now available on BundleRabbit, Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks!

This was such fun to put together! I’ve loved reading faerie stories since I was a kid. I loved Tom Deitz’ David Sullivan books, I read lots of books about Merlin and King Arthur (whichever version you prefer, it’s pretty clear that the Lady of the Lake was not a human…how many people do you know who live at the bottom of a lake?) and, while I was pretty far into adulthood by the time I found...

Come away, O reader!

The summer sun bathes the earth in warmth and light,
Faeries dance under the moon at night.
Cross through the portal into a land ancient, beautiful, and wild.
See the wonders that enticed the stolen child.
Come away, O reader! To the Realm of Faerie.
But if you want to make it back home, you had better be wary…

Only one week left until The Faerie Summer bundle launches!!!!!

I am so excited about this bundle! I’ve loved stories about fairies since I was a kid. And I know you’re thinking: what’...

More monsters!

I’ve now sent two stories off to the fabulous DeAnna Knippling for editing, and submitted one to an anthology. Hooray!!!

Lest you think I’m now out of work, I need to wrap up one more in progress story by May 1st, have to write a completely new story by mid-May, need to finalize the sales copy, cover, and review the final ebooks for the Faerie Summer bundle and, if I have any extra time left, write two more short stories by the end of the month. The latter seems unlikely, I know, but as a Pol...

Heedless optimism!

I’m super excited to report that I’ve committed to two brand-new projects that I’m going to work on with two of my very favorite authors!

A festival of faeries

The launch of The Faerie Summer bundle is only a few weeks away! I’ve got a few more things to do to get it ready to go, like writing the sales copy and tweaking the design of the ebook cover – but everything that’s left is straightforward and easy to do.

It’s been really fun to see this bundle come together. I sent out the first invitation last August, over eight months before the planned launch date. I wanted to launch the bundle on May 1st, also known as Beltane, or May Day. There are a n...

Dogs might be sleepier than they appear

The past week felt super busy. Yes, I did skip out on writing things and spent a few hours having brunch (and mimosas) with a few of my girlfriends, but otherwise it seemed like I was doing something writing-related most of the time I wasn’t at my day job. I fiddled with my latest cover, and declared it happy. I wrote a post for Blackbird Publishing about using Jutoh and Word to create ebooks, which took more time than I expected, but was also a good refresher. I committed to delivering a tot...

It’s the first day of spring!

I’ve been working hard on finishing up the edits for a story that – assuming I don’t change the name again – is now called “The Faery’s Choice.” I love this story, but vastly underestimated the amount of editing it would need – and I thought it needed a fair amount.

Back to editing!

My very first contributor’s copy arrived this week!

My short story “The Next Dance” is in Fiction River: Tavern Tales. Here’s the anthology’s description:

Think you know a tavern tale when you hear one? Think again. The seventeen stories in this volume run the gamut of genre and mood. Bars filled with glitter and ghosts stand alongside taverns filled with orcs and adventurers. Exclusive members-only drinks served at the end of the universe war with coffee bars with strange employee policies...

A surprise detour

I started editing the faerie story on Saturday, and had set aside the entire day to finish editing it and my Lovecraftian story “The Late Bloomer.” (Lovecraft meets Jamie, so make of that what you will.) And then I realized the post on my publishing site in which DeAnna Knippling interviewed Rebecca M. Senese about her Haunted bundle story had gone live but was not showing up on Facebook. How odd, I thought. And so I investigated.

Many, many hours later

Beware the ghost cat

I’m afraid to let my guard down, but I’m finally starting to get caught up on my many, many projects! In fact, I’m even ahead of the game on a few things! Hooray!

Each week, a post about one of the stories from a bundle I’ve curated will be published on Blackbird Publishing’s blog. I’ve now written and scheduled ten posts – that means those posts are scheduled through the first week of May!

Interviews with the bundle authors will appear on that site occasionally as well. The very first one w...