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AC 00116 – Haunted Highways Near and Far – Live from ConGregate 2024

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[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 […]

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AC 00115 – Kentucky Fried Goat-Man – Do Not Go to the Trestle of Death – Live from Ret-Con 2024

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AC 00114 – The Monkey-Dog

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[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

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Querying Agents & Presses

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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.

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Mood Boards: Contemporary Ancestors

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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

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Book Marketing: Frank Talk About Real Numbers

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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,

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Book Review: T. Kingfisher’s THE TWISTED ONES

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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

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Book Review: Living Queer History

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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

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The cover of the novel THE LONELY LETTERS by Ashon T. Crawley.

Book Review: The Lonely Letters

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Last semester I wrote a review of Ashon T. Crawley’s book The Lonely Letters for a class in my Appalachian Studies certificate program at Appalachian State University. I submitted it to

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A #PitLight-Adjacent Post (A Day Late)

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This year I participated in #PitLight, a fun, upbeat, authors-only social media pitch event for books we’re working on (or want to work on, or perhaps should be working on).

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