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October 12, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: A Review of “.identity”
Welcome back for another #OcTOBLERfest post! Today, I’m doing a review of one of E. Catherine Tobler’s many fantastic short stories. Elise has had multiple stories published in such excellent magazines as Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more. This particular story I’m gonna talk about today–“.identity”–was published in Clarkesworld Magazine‘s June 2016 issue. I’ll try […]
October 10, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: Giveaway #2 Winner!
The second week of OcTOBLERfest has come and gone! How fast this month is speeding by! Hold into your coffee mugs and sweaters and fall leaves while you can, folks, I fear it won’t be long before winter swings this way. In the meantime, it’s time to find out which lucky giveaway entrant gets to […]
October 7, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: Giveaway #2 – Rings of Anubis
Are you ready for thrilling adventure? Ancient mystery? A bit of romantic intrigue? This week’s giveaway is a print copy of E. Catherine Tobler‘s Rings of Anubis–the first installment in her Folley & Mallory series. I’m not sure I’ve ever read such a wonderful smash-up of genres as are present in this story: fantasy, adventure, […]
October 5, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: A.C. Wise Reviews “We As One, Trailing Embers”
Today’s OcTOBLERfest festivity is a guest post: A.C. Wise reviews “We As One, Trailing Embers” by E. Catherine Tobler. Before we get to that, here’s a bit about our reviewer! A.C.Wise’s stories have appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Shimmer, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015, among other places. Her collections The […]
October 3, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: Giveaway #1 WINNER
The first ‘week’ of OcTOBLERfest has drawn to a close and it’s time to announce our first giveaway winner! First, I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has shared/retweeted/just generally helped celebrate OcTOBLERfest so far. You are, all of you, excellent people and I’m happy to know you! (And get to […]
October 1, 2016
OcTOBLERfest: Giveaway #1 – Watermark
As I announced earlier today, this month is OcTOBLERfest and in celebration I’ll be doing five giveaways of E. Catherine Tobler’s books this month. First up, we have Watermark. Pip, a kelpie sent to our world as punishment, is forced into a human form. But she cannot even recall her crime—there are only fragments in […]
Welcome to OcTOBLERfest!
Fall into Tobleriffic Fiction! Autumn is officially here in the US and what better time to ‘fall’ into magical, painful, gorgeous stories? This year I hope you’ll join me for OcTOBLERfest–a month long shindig celebrating the works of E. Catherine Tobler. E. Catherine Tobler was born on the other side of the International Dateline, which […]
August 9, 2016
“Your Body, By Default” Published in Fireside Fiction, Issue 35
(Artwork by Galen Dara) That gorgeous illustration right there is a dream come true for me. I’ve been a fan of Galen Dara‘s art for some time now. Her work is so gorgeous, so colorful and magical. I hardly dared to hope she’d ever illustrate one of my stories. And then Fireside Fiction bought my […]
August 4, 2016
Estelle’s Birth Story
This is primarily a writing blog, though I haven’t used it for much besides posting story publication announcements lately. But today, I want to share with you Estelle’s birth story. Mostly this is for me actually. It’s something I want to remember all the details of, and what better way than by sharing them with […]
August 2, 2016
“Fall to Her” Published in Apex Magazine
You want to fall. You want to fall up, sideways, diagonal — towards the sun, or the moons, or the asteroid field. Out here in the vast pin-pricked black, it all feels like falling down. The mech you wear is thick; it amplifies the ragged sound of your breathing. But it cannot drown out the […]
