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North Carolina Time!
Heya folks! If you’re in the Ashville, NC area, the amazing bookstore co-op Firestorm will have copies of Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths on release date, 8/6/24! If you show your local bookstore some love and snag a Read More…
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BookPeople Austin
Heya folks! If you’re in the Austin, TX area, BookPeople will have copies of Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths on release date, 8/6/24! If you show your local bookstore some love and snag a copy, I’ll happily Read More…
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Fantasy, Lore, & More!
I was a guest last night on Melinda Kucsera’s Fantasy, Lore, & More, where I talk at length about the Boahim Trilogy (with some discussion of the upcoming Amaskan’s Honor) and my upcoming memoir, Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths. Read More…
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Pre-Orders are a go!
For all that I’m a writer, there aren’t words to express how important my new book (Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths) is to me. It’s so topical right now. Pre-Orders are up bookstores everywhere (release 8/6/24). Join Read More…
A Big, Damn Update!
I haven’t updated folks about some of the chaos in my world in a bit, so I’m taking a moment to do so since yesterday was a very bad, no-good, fuck-it-all kind-of day. I’m all up in my feels and Read More…
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Wishing Shelf Award Finalist
I’m a finalist! Or at least one of my books is. 😉 If you recall back in 2018, Amaskan’s War was a UK Wishing Shelf Book Award Finalist, meaning that a bunch of young adults read the book and liked it Read More…
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The Bell Ringer… ppb
After a bit of distributor snafu-age, the trade paperback & ebook of The Bell Ringer & Other Holiday Tales is finally available! The trade paperback’s interior is in black and white (only the special Kickstarter edition was in full color), but Read More…
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99 Fleeting Fantasies
The flash fiction anthology 99 Fleeting Fantasies has a cover and a release date! The eBook and paperback will be released on 2/15/2024 at bookstores everywhere. This anthology, edited by Jennifer Brozek, contains my story called “Not Today,” which is about a Read More…
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Bram Stoker?!
Soul Jar, the anthology I’m in that features my short story “Weightless” as well as 30 other stories by disabled authors, is on the long list for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!! Talk about exciting! Read More…
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Awards Eligibility Post 2023
It’s that time again where folks are reading works published in 2023 and nominating them for various awards. The following are works of mine published in 2023. Short Story Collections and/or Novel Length Works: Dragon Springs & Other Things (Short Read More…
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