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Fire and Fate: Soaring Along with Epic Fantasy Dragons in Ann Gimpel’s Dragon Heir Series

Series Note: USA Today bestseller Ann Gimpel gives us much needed dragons. Lots of dragons! You’ll probably devour these fast-moving novels quickly, but never fear. Ann has published more than 100 books, so I suspect you’ll find even more to read. – Kristine Kathryn Rusch Series Description: The fate of the world lies in the […]

Wonderland Shadows: Exploring the Dark Fairy Tale Retelling of DeAnna Knippling’s Alternate Alices Series

Series Note: DeAnna Knippling has a wonderfully skewed way of looking at the world. So when she decided to take on Alice in Wonderland, I saw a match made in heaven. These books are dark but they’re also intriguing and beautifully written. Escape down the rabbit hole…and then find that the rabbit hole isn’t the […]

Unmasking Justice: Urban Fantasy Legal Drama in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Faerie Justice Series

Series Note: For years, I have written stories about the magical in World War II. If faeries existed (and I believe they do), I needed to figure out why they weren’t using their magic to stop that particular conflagration. Five short stories and three novellas later, I still don’t have an answer, but I know […]

Storybundle fantasy bundle of bundles & The Zombification of the Snark

So I’m participating in a bundle promotion at Storybundle for the Fantasy Bundle of Bundles (Storybundle was bound to go a little meta on bundles at some point!) with my different Alice in Wonderland books as an “Alternate Alices” collection. I wrote an exclusive for the collection–I’d started a zombified short story based on Lewis […]

Help! I’ve Read Too Many Villainess Manga & Now I’m a Villainess Myself!

I was sick yesterday and crashed, spending my time sleeping and reading web comics (manga/manwa/manhua) in the villainess niche. My daughter Ray is getting me to read them, and…I kinda like them, and I’m thinking of writing a serial (not a manga) later, after I get my current serial work-in-progress Blind Date with Death up […]

On Celebrity versus Authenticity

I talked to a best-beloved friend about celebrity versus authenticity, how it’s impossible to expect people to be “authentic” in front of a camera, and yet it’s still possible to find moments of connection. We were contrasting Neil Gaiman and Anthony Bourdain. And yeah, I don’t wanna drag Nail Gaiman shit out more than I […]

Recipe: Okonomiyaki

Ray and I had a lot of leftover homemade yakitori after New Year’s Day, and I’d been wanting to try making okonomiyaki, so we went for it. Unfortunately most of the recipes I found wanted some sort of special grated yam that I didn’t have and was too lazy to track down. Fortunately I found […]

Updated Release: Crime du Jour

I’ve decided to bring my mystery stories back under my own name (DeAnna Knippling) instead of a pen name. Crime du Jour is a collection of very short (500 words – 1500 words) short stories, each one about a different crime. Generally from the criminal’s point of view. I figured out a long time ago that […]

Mixed Media Journaling Project

I’m setting up materials for a mixed media journaling project/practice. (Or, rather, to resume a journaling practice.*) I did some journaling October/November for a project – which will come out eventually but I’m not ready to talk about – and really enjoyed it. The one I did was a mix of daily entries and short […]

New Release: A Dark and Cozy Night

My new novel, A Dark and Cozy Night, is now available! For readers who enjoy Ruth Ware, Knives Out!, and Agatha Christie. The main character is an author of historical mysteries who finds herself drawn more to the dark side of fiction after the accidental death of her husband. Just Because You’re Good Doesn’t Mean […]