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Time to Give up on Wattpad?

The curious thing about posting webserials online is that the whole affair can be pretty hit or miss. Or so it seems from where I stand. As far as the popular platforms go, it seems you either gain a readership or you… don’t. It would seem that I fall in the latter category. I’m considering ... Read more...

NaNoWriMo: Here We Go Again

November is right around the corner and I’ve picked up the NaNoWriMo gauntlet again. For those of you who don’t already know, National Novel Writing Month is an annual challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Crazy right? Somehow, I’m going to have to find some pretty clever ways to juggle my ... Read more...

Give You Courage

I thought I’d post a little excerpt of the latest installation of STARCHASER, my space opera webserial. STARCHASER is serialized at JukePop Serials, Wattpad and TextNovel. The series recently won an Editor’s Choice Award at TextNovel. “Laila was out of her element again, and scared. Her grip tightened on her gun. She was not–she self-admonished–so ... Read more...

Blood Binds #11

- Revelation - Pyogia Flatland’s half-year tide had rolled in, partially submerging the wreck of Hel’s abandoned apartment. To stave off the bracing wind, Kyle and Tallow had a fire going in the middle of what used to be Hel’s living room. Kyle scowled down at the horde of jellyfish-like critters swimming around in the ... Read more...

The Last Archangel by Tonya R. Moore

When she was earth bound, Alys wore the scars of her vocation with pride. The hardware fused into her head, arms and back–input terminals for the iron maiden’s controls, could only ever be replaced, not removed. When star bound, she spent months at a time strapped into the synaptic throne that connected her body and mind to the controls of the multi-use ship, Mink.

Their last trip had been a hugely unexpected challenge. A dispatch to the newly colonized Kucosh system which should have been not...

Devious Machine by Tonya R. Moore

Ginger conjured a cool, dark river. The bottoms of her feet tingled as they slipped over the smooth rocks in the riverbed. As she lowered her body into the wetness, frightened river fish darted around her legs. She heard the birds hidden in the boughs of the great trees surrounding her insular sanctuary. She thought that she could hear their anxious voices, the furtive fluttering of fragile wings. Everything echoed, even her breath.

The air became heavier and heavier. She sang and she sang and...

Witch & Spider by Tonya R. Moore

Whips of lightning cracked the dreary night’s fragile shell.The sea was a harridan, driving away what little warmth was left on the wind. The beastly sky rumbled. The earth trembled. The explosive boom of a starship taking off ripped a hole into the distant horizon.

The earth had long become another backwater industrial throwaway. Most ships only stopped here long enough to fill up on fuel and necessities on the way to someplace else. Even the meanest weather couldn’t convince a pilot to delay...

Sweet Belladonna by Tonya R. Moore

Sofie sucked in a deep breath and cinched the last fastening of her gown. She checked her appearance in the mirror, bottom to top. The delicate tunic’s hem fell just above her ankles, covering the tops of her tall boots. The indigo waistband was intertwined with a row of tiny buckles that extended from her lower spine to the back of her neck.

Her lips were colored crimson, slightly swollen due to the alchemic properties of the compound she’d used. Her eyes seemed so unnaturally round, over-lar...

Curation for Inspiration & Productivity

One of my biggest challenges used to be keeping an organized digital listing of inspiring articles, pictures and other media. I’ve managed to develop my own haphazard system using the following tools/platforms:

1. Evernote

Evernote is the ultimate notebook. I can capture notes by snapping pictures, typing, handwriting on my tablet or phone, make notes via speech to text and record voice notes. These can be categorized into stacks of notebooks and tagged as I wish. Evernote supports annotation a...

Character Assassination

If you write speculative fiction, you’ve probably committed a ghastly murder or two—of fictional characters, that is. For the dastardly among us spec-fic writers, the more bizarre the kill, the better.

It’s also a great vehicle for sublimating rage against real life antagonists, right?

I recently found myself thinking about it and wow. There are some seriously twisted things crawling up from the murky depths of my mind.

Case and point: listed below are three examples of awful ways in which I’ve...