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Looking for more ebook treats to start your holidays right?

Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 by Esther

I hope you had a delightful Halloween full of great costumes and fantastic times. This weekend, between all the sugar-fueled hijinks, Frog and I finished polishing the final chapters of GRACELESS, book four in our urban fantasy series. We’re so close to sending it off to our editor. Halloween and Yule have always been two of my favorite holidays. Times when it’s…

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On Going Home to Spocon

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Frog

For the last seven years, Esther and I have watched our writing career lift off the ground.  We’re under solicited submission to Baen, we’ve got a well-loved urban fantasy series, we’ve got stories in anthologies from a whole host of different publishers.  We’ve appeared as pros and dealers at WorldCon, World Fantasy, and Westercon in…

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Impulsive Walrus Books exists!

Posted on July 26, 2018October 7, 2021 by Frog

The two of us have opened our own publishing house. This is an interesting step, and it has been fraught with, well, fraughtiness. Anyways, it exists, and it has its own website, which can be viewed here. Enjoy!

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Digital Glamour: Awakening, now available for pre-order!

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Frog

The first Digital Glamour Story, Awakening, is available for pre-order on a number of different digital delivery systems. The 11th century, AD, was a bad time for fairies. In the West, William the Conqueror is victorious over the fey-assisted Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. The Kievan Rus complete their rise to power despite Baba…

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Miscon Report: The Greatest Little Convention in the World

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Frog

We love Miscon. Alright, alright.  Those of you who haven’t been are sitting there thinking “What’s Miscon?  Where’s that?”  Well, let’s start with this:  it’s in Missoula.  And it’s one of the best small cons there is. Yes, Missoula.  Deal with it. I have a theory of why this convention is so awesome.  You see,…

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Westboro Wannabes Picket Norwescon

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Frog

So, I’m in my hotel room at Norwescon. I don’t have a dealer table, and my panel appearances are kinda limited, so I’m making the best of it by getting as much done on Black Powder Goddess as I can. I’m deep into revisionland when all of a sudden a load, distorted voice from a…

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The Stupidity of Faith

Posted on February 2, 2017October 7, 2021 by Frog

There is little in the art of writing lazier than faith as a plot point. See if these lines seem familiar: “All we can do now is believe in X” (Where X is the protagonist or, sometimes, the plucky sidekick–usually uttered when X is off doing momentous things and there’s a group of people basically…

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Federal 2.0 – the Progressive Solution to the Current Government

Posted on January 26, 2017October 7, 2021 by Frog

Any time you have a problem, you have to boil that problem down to its bare essence.  And the problem that progressives have, right now is not that the President totally opposes them.  It’s not that Congress opposes them.  It’s not the voters, it’s not “fake news,” and it’s not racism.  All of those things…

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The Reason We Study History

Posted on November 3, 2016October 7, 2021 by Frog

In 264 BC, the ancient Roman Republic became involved in a series of three wars with Carthage. Bear with me.  I’m going somewhere with this. Carthage was a tough opponent, and Hannibal definitely gave Rome some problems in the 2nd Punic War, but the upshot of these things was that Rome kind of ended up…

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No, I’m not doing NaNo. Don’t let me stop you.

Posted on November 1, 2016October 7, 2021 by Frog

No, we’re not doing NaNo this year.  We didn’t do it last year, either.   Fact is, I can’t foresee us doing a NaNoWriMo event ever again.  It’s simply not an event that has value for us at our current place in our careers. Here’s what’s going on in our writing work at the moment:…

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