Clever Hans and the Tarot Deck

Where do these stories come from, anyway?You'd make me very happy if you wrote a review.Clever Hans was a horse in the early 1900s who was supposedly able to do math problems. Turns out, the horse wasn’t really doing math, but was reading the reactio...

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Jul 09, 2021
80 degrees of midwinter

Pros and cons of desert witchcraft.Reads like historical fiction set in 2005, but with strange magic.When I did research on paganism, I primarily researched Wicca, because that was most available to me. The flavor of paganism that James Melbourne fol...

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Jun 25, 2021
Boxed Red Wine and Nebulas

Why being an indie author means I will buy my own steaks."She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave" on page 357, right next to Neil Gaiman: my best-selling short story, but still not quite enough for SFWA MembershipMy friend and I have had this bet since w...

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Jun 11, 2021
Witches wanted! $12-15/hr DOE

Struggling to pay the rent makes witches relatableKit Melbourne and Susan Stillwater: Both broke AFOne of the tropes of vampires is that they are all ludicrously wealthy and live in castles. But whenever I think about this trope, I think about those...

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May 29, 2021
Cozy serial killers

Murderers: Gotta catch em all?Faerie's KillerKit and Morales hunt down a murderer.I started reading a cozy mystery the other day. If you look too closely, cozy mysteries are really dark. Murders in real life tend to be “I was angry because she broke...

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May 15, 2021
What makes vampires sexy?

Old + superhero = vampireMulberry WandsA parliament of shapeshifting owls. A tiny corpse. A woman framed for murder.When I wrote the Alternate Susan series, my goal was to create an urban fantasy that had no vampires, no angels or demons, no werewolv...

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May 01, 2021
What makes vampires sexy?

Old + superhero = vampireMulberry WandsA parliament of shapeshifting owls. A tiny corpse. A woman framed for murder.When I wrote the Alternate Susan series, my goal was to create an urban fantasy that had no vampires, no angels or demons, no werewolv...

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Apr 29, 2021
What kind of story do you like?

A simple plan involving magic, vampires, and a psychotic warlock.Sorrow's Apprentice: As fun as that famous heist movie, but with more women (and vampires.)Sorrow's Apprentice was one of my favorite books to write for the simple reason that it's a he...

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Apr 16, 2021
What kind of story do you like?

A simple plan involving magic, vampires, and a psychotic warlock.Sorrow's Apprentice: As fun as that famous heist movie, but with more women (and vampires.)Sorrow's Apprentice was one of my favorite books to write for the simple reason that it's a he...

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Apr 15, 2021
Vampire's Pawn is out!

Can Kit serve a vampire warlock without becoming evil herself?When vampires in Austin break the centuries-long code of silence, bloodsuckers around the world are forced to choose sides. Vampire Guild Leader Holzhausen allies with the traditionalist Q...

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Apr 06, 2021