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Dear Poe: Remember When?

A lot of people have introduced themselves to me in my lifetime. I just have one of those faces. I look like someone you knew or really liked in grade school or high school or college. It’s my hair or my smile or my something that just sparks a memory. Even Malik Yoba swore we’d met before, but I’m…

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The AlphaOops Halloween Site is LIVE!

Did you notice? That’s right — up there at the top of the website, in front of the Dream-Haired Girl, there are now TWO AlphaOops covers. You know what that means? THE ALPHAOOPS: HALLOWEEN SITE IS NOW LIVE! There are so many new fun things to do! The memory game is back, joined by puzzles and something called a…

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One Seriously Cute Customer

Those of you on Facebook & Twitter may remember the Friday night before Baltimore Book Festival when the Cutest Customer in the World visited me at the bookstore. It was late–within an hour or so of closing–and I overheard some customers in the children’s aisle talking about the National Book Festival. I had forgotten that the big book festival…

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The Student Surpasses the Teacher

I’ve always heard this is a good sign. And look! Here’s Ariell, whose 66-word story here appears BEFORE MINE in the 66 Twisted Tales chapbook. I am a very proud Fairy Godmother. *beams* If you have a Kindle, you can get the book right here for only 99 cents!

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Last Day to Win a Unicorn!

That’s right! At midnight EST tonight, my dearest bosom companion Leanna Renee Hieber will be randomly drawing from the commenters on THIS BLOG POST to see who wins a copy of John Skipp’s DEMONS anthology, autographed by MOI! (I hear there are some other pretty decent authors in this anthology as well. Like this Neil Something.) All you have…

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Shroud Halloween Issue Still Available

Maybe you missed it last year. Or you didn’t happen to love me then as much as you do now. Whatever the reason, IT’S OKAY. You can still purchase the special Shroud Halloween Issue guest edited by Kevin Lucia. This issue has my story “Red Lantern” in it, which is…not so much a retelling; more of an homage…to the…

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Fun Stuff for Good Readers

Much to my dismay (and yours, I know), ENCHANTED won’t be out in stores until May 8th of 2012. It seems like a long time to wait, doesn’t it? Of course, in this day and age, we have a lot of other ways to get our fix for books we can’t wait to read (like Tamora Pierce’s and Robin…

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The Princess Formerly Known as Snow White

Jo Ramsey kindly invited me to do a guest post over at her blog today. I was welcome to do whatever I wanted — song, dance, juggling, blog about my life, blog about writing, or do an interview with one of my characters. This is a trend in genre fiction — especially with YA and Romance — where authors…

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Free Fiction (by me!) Today at Waterworld Mermaids

Hooray! It’s time for the Waterworld Mermaids to officially invite you into our garden! As Waterworld Mermaids, we don’t normally find ourselves in a garden, unless it’s of the seaweed and coral variety; so, for our first online anthology of short stories, we decided to tie each tale together by location and an exotic one to us – a…

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