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Love, love, love

Congrats to our talented member M.E. Proctor ! She also has a banger story in our latest anthology, TROUBLE IN TEXAS. amazon.com/Trouble-Texas-…

It's as if my barrista knows me.

Giveaway! SPARK comes out one month and one day from today.. Thanks to MacKids BooksThere is a finished copy giveaway of SPARK going on right now! They are giving away 20 finished copies. I put the direct link in the comments!

Excited to announce the winners of my #bookgiveaway for JANEOLOGY - Kevin R. Tipple and Keith Roysdon ! #naturevsnurture #genealogy #mystery Thanks to all who participated. Look for more summer giveaways to come!

Reminder we're still accepting subs until the end of June. Then we close down for July. Free sub option always. We pay $30/piece. Guidelines here > trampset.org/submissions-6e…

My favorite NextDoor post today is that someone found a bobcat with a collar on it.

I could use a dose of this today.

Enter the first page of your unpublished novel to the Gutsy Great Novelist Page One Prize for a chance to win $1,000. Open internationally to writers over 18 writing in English in any genre for adults or YA. newpages.com/guide-submissi… #writers #writingcontest #fiction @_JoanDempsey

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." — Kurt Vonnegut #writing Aetherhart

"Once I started writing more flash I became very serious about sentences." Don't miss this terrific interview in Prairie Schooner with Fiction Editor @hazmatcat: buff.ly/jetCczw

But how many miles should one travel?

Someone asked last night about the e-book of THAT OCTOBER. It’s coming this summer. In the meantime, the paperback is really beautiful, thanks to my friend and editor Jjll Blocker’s design and artist Sara McKinley’s covers. amazon.com/That-October-K…

Caught this on a menu recently. Hello, proofreader?

Honored to be back in MoonPark Review with a story about a giant ice cream sandwich in the sky. Check it out. And thanks to Mary Lynn and Lesley for giving this one such an awesome home! 🍦 🍨 moonparkreview.com/issue-32-summe…

I have a new story in wonderful MoonPark Review ! Many thanks to Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston for publishing this one. moonparkreview.com/issue-32-summe…

Worth the read.

For the science nerds.