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13 Stories, 13 Essays
Includes Hugo and Nebula shortlisted story “The Good Pup” Enter a world of miraculous dogs, invading fairy swarms, and mysterious eggs. Ride the blue highways with a retired organlegger, and journey through a wasteland with three poets. Visit a government-funded laboratory crowded with typing chimpanzees. See what a dying man sees in the waves. Meet one man with a hunger for deadly music and another who sells it on the street. Hugo and Nebula Award finalist Bridget McKenna presents thirteen short stories of fantasy, science fiction, and a few things in between, illustrated with 13 full-page color illustrations and accompanied by thirteen essays telling how each story came to be. Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons is available now for $2.99 or the local equivalent from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, and all Amazon stores worldwide. 
Yorrie Rose’s mama is dead. She wants to stay with her Aunt Wanda, but Aunt Wanda’s husband—violent and cruel Uncle Ralph—is determined to send her away to live with strangers.
Yorrie needs to keep the only home she has, and her talent for slipping from the world we know into new futures may hold the key. “Yorrie Rose” originally appeared (as “Probability Factor”) in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 12, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pulphouse 1993). Buy it for 99c at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, and all Amazon Stores. Also available from Scribd, iTunes, Kobo, and B&N. In the blog:
Hail to the King - How I Wrote “A King in Exile” Why I Didn't Keep Reading Your Book, Part 2 Why I Didn't Keep Reading Your Book, Part 1 Shout-out to the Science Fiction Writers' Workshop of theUniversity of Kansas James Gunn Center for the study of Science Fiction. Thanks for linking to the Self-Editing for Everyone series. Self-Editing for Everyone Self-Editing for Everyone Part 12: Point of View Violations - Part 11: Homophones - Part 10: Passive Voice - Part 9: The Case of the Dangling Modifier - Part 8: Dialogue Tags - Part 7: Two Languages - Part 6: Secrets of Relative Velocity - Part 5: When Words Get in the Way - Part 4: The Weakeners - Part 3: Attack of the Adverbs! - Part 2: Vampire Verbs, Zombie Verbs, and Verbs That Kick Ass - Part 1: The Most-Hated Writing Advice Ever  A King in Exile, by Bridget McKenna
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A King in Exile Lady Penelope Smythe-Everton is a bit of a fish out of water as a gentleman’s daughter in mid-19th-century England. She’s independent, courageous, adventurous in the extreme, and not a particularly good risk on the marriage market. After a brush with death in the tropics, she returns to London with a rather large egg, which hatches to reveal a bipedal lizard she christens "Rex." Her life—and that of her dearest friend, solicitor John Maguire—is about to change in ways neither of them can possibly imagine. “A King in Exile” originally appeared in Quantum Zoo, edited by D.J. Gelner and J.M. Ney-Grimm (Orion’s Comet, 2014). Buy it for 99c at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, and all Amazon Stores. Also available from iTunes, Kobo, B&N, and Scribd. Or get it free! Sign up for my newsletter, and I'll send you a link to a free copy. Revised and Enlarged Edition
12 Ways to Take Your Book from Good to Great
Whether your aim is to seek a publishing contract or to publish your book yourself, you want your writing to be as free of placeholder words, as devoid of verbal crutches, as lean and clean as you can learn to make it. This book will show you how. Part One: Search and Destroy Whether it's fish heads, zombie nouns, vampire verbs, or the dread dangling participle, these chapters will show you how to find and eliminate common early-draft mistakes. Part Two: The Self-Editor's Toolkit Learn to create richer language, set the pace, and wrangle dialogue tags while pondering "The Most-Hated Writing Advice Ever." Part Three: Self-Editing Resources Links to good books and helpful websites for writers, and a handy quick-reference to all the pointers in The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers. Good editing by the writer—before an outside editor ever sees your work—can make the difference between an okay book and a good one, or between a good book and a great one. “Even in today's world of self-publishing, good editing can mean the difference between an okay story and a great one. ...We need to put our best foot forward and The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers can help. Concise, yet descriptive, following this guide can only make your writing stronger.” 5-star Amazon Review “...What this *is* is a book about crafting the most polished, powerful prose possible -- so that when you do hire an editor you aren't wasting your money fixing things you could have & should have fixed on your own.... 5-star Amazon Review “ ...every section in this book is both dense and immediately useful. A quick skim will improve your writing, your writing process, and make your rewriting time more efficient. And you can come back to it over and over....” 5-star Amazon Review The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers is available at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, amazon.com.au, and all Amazon stores for US$4.99 or the local equivalent. Also on iTunes, Kobo, Scribd, and B&N.
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