Introducing: Dr. Helena Moriarty

Dr. Helena Moriarty, from STRANGE BEASTS (my gothic historical fantasy with puzzlebox mystery and queer romance, OCT 2024). She’s only about 2cm on the actual cover, but she is STUNNING!! Cover reveal on 3/28!! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Inky Phoenix Book Club (@theinkyphoenix) Cover reveal on 3/28!

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Be the Moderator’s Favorite: 10 Tips for Panelists

The Gen Con Writer’s Symposium is a hidden gem of the yearly Indianapolis gaming convention, with over 200 hours of programming and an amazing list of authors and editors and other publishing types. This year, I had the honor of moderating a few of the panels—and in doing so I had some thoughts. Here are […]

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Making Monsters Scary

For my current project, I’m thinking a lot about monsters. Scary monsters, rather than Monsters University types. And what I found, to my surprise, is that very few of the monsters I came across in my research into were actually scary to me. Like, they might be scary-adjacent—as in, yeah, I’d run away if I […]

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