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Dreaming Big: If I Wrote the Casting Call for ‘Botanica Blues’.

A lot of writers have this dream or play this game: if (insert title here) was to be turned into a movie, who would I cast? While The Valley of Ten Crescents could make for a fun fantasy flick (especially the upcoming book, Red Moon Rising), I think Botanica Blues would make for a gre
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Crowdsource Cthulhu! Innsmouth Free Press on IndieGoGo

I don’t usually plug people’s crowdsourcing projects but I might have to change that. Crowdsourcing platforms like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter are amazing tools creators can use to market and get the support they need to get their books, games and products off the ground whi
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Self-Made Scoundrel Now Available at Major Etailers!

As of today, Self-Made Scoundrel, the second book in The Valley of Ten Crescents is now available in the Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo stores! We put a lot of hard work getting it ready, getting it to GeekGirlCon and making it available at the above etailers. Even though it’
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Back That Elf Up is BACK from GeekGirlCon ’12 and Portland, OR!

So we’re back from GeekGirlCon 2012/our trip to Portland, OR and boy howdy, did we have a blast! GeekGirlCon was AMAZING. In a bigger space than last year, the wonderful individuals who organized the Con still managed to create a well organized, fun event with amazing energy. Ev
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Self-Made Scoundrel and GeekGirlCon 2012

Yep, it’s that time of year again. That time when Back That Elf Up starts flailing around the house, thinking about GeekGirlCon, making plans, packing things and getting ready release our next book, Self-Made Scoundrel. The book is done and we have boxes of books sitting in our
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Summer Solstice Free Fantasy

What have we been doing these past few weeks? Well, we’ve been working on getting Self-Made Scoundrel in the can, working with Amy Clare Learmonth and Jack Cayless on art for the book, getting ready for GeekGirlCon and Indie+, writing articles for Troll in the Corner and STILL, the Ad
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Indie Rafflecopter – 38 book giveaway!

Enter for a chance to win free copies of Botanica Blues and Little Girl Lost.
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Eff the Good Ol’ Days

There is no way in Hades I would want to live in the “Good Ol’ Days,” and not just because of the lack of internet or sexual positions. Continue reading the full article @ Troll In the Corner
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Heroes

Sometimes a whole nation might recognize an individual as being somewhat more special than everyone else, one who molded the future of many with their hands when others would crush it. Continue reading the full article @ Troll In the Corner
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