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“…Rachel A. Brune writes with butterfly-knife dexterity: Always a flashy cut, a dreadful twist, a sideways chance at hope.” ~Randy Brown, co-editor of Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War
Tag Archives: urban fantasy
On the Shelf: Down a (Grim)Dark Alley
I’ve been diving down the dark fantasy rabbit hole, immersing myself in grim settings and antiheroes. If you’ve got a penchant for dirty deeds and dirty … well, people who live in a storage unit, you really should check out… Continue reading
On the Shelf: Reading for Fun
This past weekend, the walls finally started to close in just a little too tightly in the RV… So, instead of breaking out the stack of business books like I had planned, I dove into some fiction reading to give … Continue reading
Posted in On the Shelf, Reading Project, Welcome
Tagged horror, reading, urban fantasy
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Post in which I recommend speculative fiction novels…
I usually try to warn people who strike up literary conversations with me at bars, because I will come straight out of my introvert shell and bend their ear (quite possibly both their ears) talking about all of my favorite speculative fiction authors (this list goes on for pages…) until they throw down a twenty for a tip on the bar and run away. Continue reading
Posted in Reading Project, Welcome
Tagged novels, speculative fiction, urban fantasy
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Wandering Around the San Juan Bautista Mission
The other day I found myself having completed all the work for the first two classes in my MFA, which had somehow resulted in a massive case of writer’s block. Instead of sitting and staring at the blinking cursor, I … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Welcome, Writing Reflections
Tagged mission, setting, travel, urban fantasy, werewolf
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Cold Run is live!!
Three years ago I sat down with a character who had surfaced during one of my writing exercise sessions. A grumpy, disgruntled werewolf, Rick Keller showed up in my notes the night that the organization he used to work for … Continue reading
Posted in Welcome, Writing Wins
Tagged book release, shifter, urban fantasy, werewolf
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