I hope everyone made it through the worst of the cold. We’ll have lots of good news and releases this coming week to help lift spirits! First bit of happy: against all odds, Subterranean Press has softened its policy before the might of the Horde and is republishing the Innkeeper Chronicles, Volume One. UPDATE: This
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 3
Today we bring you two more stories of writers realizing they wanted to be writers. Alyssa Day The moment everything changed for me was when I volunteered to pick up an editor (Kate Seaver, then at a small indie publisher, now at Penguin Random House) from the airport for a writers’ conference. We chatted on
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The Price of Magic Zoom with Jessie Mihalik
Happy Monday! Today we are bringing you the sign up form for a Zoom Chat with us and Jessie Mihalik. Jessie’s new book, SILVER & BLOOD, is coming out on January 27, 2026. I really loved it, and now we get to talk to her about worldbuilding and the price magic exacts for its miraculous
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 2
Jeaniene Frost I wanted to be a writer since I was eleven. I began with poetry, and moved onto novels around age thirteen, but I could never stick with an idea long enough to finish an entire book. My first inkling that I had talent was my senior year in high school, when a friend
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 1
Every writer has a moment when the world shifted. For me, it happened when I was 14 years old. Once the Iron Curtain fell, Russia was flooded with bootleg translations. I had plenty of exposure to hard science fiction, but what I got after Perestroika was fantasy, sword and sorcery, sword and planet, and light
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A Mug, Appearance, Math, and a Snippet
And it’s Monday again. My adventure in seeing clearly continues. Except that I can’t see the texts on my phone with the eye that was operated on. This caused some concern, so I bought reading glasses, although today I was able to read a text, kind of. My biggest issue is remembering eye drops. I
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