Book Trailer: Children of Solitude
I love tinkering in Canva. Check out this book trailer I made for Children of Solitude, available for pre-order now!
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The Great Querying Project: Final Stats
I have always believed in transparency and frank talk between colleagues in writing, and this post is in that spirit. I have been warned posting this might mean some agents or publishers will permanently blacklist me, and that sort of attitude is exactly why that frank talk and transparency are badly needed. Also, I don’t
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AC 00116 – Haunted Highways Near and Far – Live from ConGregate 2024
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/33042072/height/100/width//thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/3832614/custom-color/87A93A” height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] We’ve all heard of Route 66, but have you heard of Route 666? Did you know a phantom hotrod terrorizes a two-lane highway through South Carolina and North Carolina by night? Or have you seen the ghostly merchant in downtown Winston-Salem? Join Michael at ConGregate
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AC 00115 – Kentucky Fried Goat-Man – Do Not Go to the Trestle of Death – Live from Ret-Con 2024
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/32960742/height/100/width//thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/3832614/custom-color/87A93A” height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] As the episode title says, and as we say in the episode, DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE. IT IS ILLEGAL AND IT IS VERY EASY TO DIE THERE. PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT. Goat-human hybrids: science gone wrong? Or magic gone wrong? Join Charlie and
AC 00114 – The Monkey-Dog
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/32730292/height/100/width//thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/3832614/custom-color/87A93A” height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] On a spring-like December morning in 1954, dozens of school children, their teacher, and one exceptionally brave janitor had an encounter with what came to be known as The Monkey-Dog. Join Charlie and Michael for a discussion of one of the more obscure and fascinating
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Querying Agents & Presses
I’ve been querying agents (and now some horror presses) since last October in a renewed effort to get an agent and see if I can crack the “big” press world. It’s an almost impossible goal for any of us, frankly. There are fewer and fewer “big” presses and fewer on-ramps to get their attention. Agents
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Mood Boards: Contemporary Ancestors
Last year I made a few mood boards–two for the book, two for the main character–as part of the lead-up to a pitching event in which I was going to pitch my current writing project to various agents. The book itself is done, and now I’m just querying the hell out of it. In the
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Book Marketing: Frank Talk About Real Numbers
About a million years ago, I started my first author blog in order to talk transparently about book marketing and the results of various efforts. I didn’t keep that up, in part because it just took a lot of time, and in part because I do not sell many books and frankly I got embarrassed
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Book Review: T. Kingfisher’s THE TWISTED ONES
Are you reading T. Kingfisher? Are you devouring her books, perhaps physically, because they are SO AMAZING? Because if not, I think you might want to be! The Twisted Ones is set in a fictional town not too far from Pittsboro, NC, which is, in turn, not too far from where I live, so it was fun to
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Book Review: Living Queer History
In my final semester at Appalachian State I wrote a review of Gregory Samantha Rosenthal’s Living Queer History, a nonfiction work describing Dr. Rosenthal’s work to co-organize an ongoing queer history collection and curation project in Roanoke, VA. I absolutely loved this book and Dr. Rosenthal’s dedication both to shining a light on a quickly-forgotten set
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