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Unbeautiful Corners: A Story in Images

NOTE: AI images were used in this blog post, but I no longer support the use of AI, nor do I use it, because I don’t like the extractive direction big corporations are taking it and how they are trying

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A Story in Images

NOTE: AI images were used in this blog post, but I no longer support the use of AI, nor do I use it, because I don’t like the extractive direction big corporations are taking it and how they are trying

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Gothic: Wings and Wishes in Eldritch Places

Once upon a time, a girl grew up on a boat while sailing the sun-glossed seas… In another part of the world, another girl grew up reading enough fairy tales and fantasy books to know never to tell a fairy

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Saved from the Troll…

I found a draft today of a blog page from February that I’d titled ‘Saved from the Troll…’ and I was like WTF was I writing about? Turns out it was this excerpt from The Wicked Orc, where Altheira, having

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A little dreamy, a little dark, a little monstrous…

So, apparently, people have always been attracted to the little-bit monstrous, and now there are survey results to prove it! I read the article, fascinated not only by how many people find the monstrous desirable, but because I put dudes

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Loving Monsters (Orcs, not humans, please)

Moral questions aside about whether it’s ethical to love a monster (any monster, human or otherwise), I wrote a romance. Alright, I always write love stories, but this? There’s a little bit of a non-human monster in it this time.

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Orc Books, the Neighbor’s Footstool, and Other Disasters

Prague disaster here, y’all. Zulejka (my cat) is judging the pandemonium of my life from her perch on the heater as the chaotic tatters spiral to the floor. Here is my life this past week, taken from chats – but

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Locked Out

I came home from running the other day and my key wouldn’t work in the building door. Everyone’s gone through that first moment when the key doesn’t turn. You jiggle it, pull it out, confirm that it is–yes–the right key,

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The Villains have been Released…

The villains have been released into the world! Imprisoned inside a collection of stories retold from the perspective of mythological or fairytale villains… In this post, I’ll give you a glimpse into the dark hearts of the characters included in

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Pretend for Me

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN UNPUBLISHED! It is being redone as an orc romance loool fun times 😀 Everything in his city has its price, including her survival. And she only has her body to pay with. Dulcet Darkly has struck

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Sonya Lano

When I was twenty-two, I ran away to Prague, where I now sing to my black cat (who collects dustballs in her whiskers), eat chocolate for breakfast, and have lemon tarts every Thursday.

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