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Kick-start your creativity with short stories, found inspirations, sensory detail, and rituals. Includes updated versions of 5 in 10, Sensory Perceptions, Writing Rituals, the Infamous Tip Sheets, and more.

Some days we feel about as creative as wilted lettuce. When that’s the case, turn to Creative Stimulus and work your way through the various exercises. The shorter form of the exercise will help boost your creativity in long work and refresh your creative experience. Learn to go deeper into found inspirations and use the senses to create fuller, more complex, interesting, and detailed words for your readers. Find fresh focus with rituals designed to center and stimulate your creative impulses. Refer to the Tip Sheets for ideas on dialogue, tags, paragraph structure, transitions, how to make internal cuts, and more.

Buy links on the Topic Workbooks page.

The serial, Legeredemain, has launched on Kindle Vella. Episodes release on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The first three episodes are free.

Direct link here.

Episode 1: Dead With the Daisies

Sheriff Shelley Magnus-Grantone and her team investigate the death of a young man garroted, stabbed, and exsanguinated. He’s got a tattoo of the Order of Seismic Alchemy on his wrist. But that order’s been disbanded for 800 years.

Episode live July 28, 2022.

Episode 2: Corpse Talker Follies

Ren Foster is the best corpse talker in Legerdemain. Shelley gets him to the crime scene, but he’d rather be the corpse than the corpse talker.

Episode live July 28, 2022.

Episode 3: Interview with Lord Fuster

Lord Fuster found the body in Mrs. Parchaesti’s garden. Lord Fuster is a small, yappy dog. Interviewing him should be interesting.

Episode Live Aug. 2, 2022.

Legerdemain website launches soon!

There’s no such thing as “no time to write”. Learn how to analyze your blocks of time and manage them wisely to get your writing done while still having a quality of life. Topics, exercises, and resources, based on Devon Ellington’s popular workshops.

Buy links on the Topic Workbook Page.

The Second Edition of the Topic Workbook THE COMPLEX ANTAGONIST releases digitally today. If you’ve ever had trouble creating exciting, complex antagonists worthy of your protagonist, this workbook helps you through exercises and re-envisioning.

Only $2.99 and the Universal Buy Link is here.

The third edition of the ever-popular Topic Workbook GRAVEYARD OF ABANDONED PROJECTS releases digitally today. If you’ve keep starting and dropping projects, this workbook will help you sort through them, make decisions, and get back on track.

It’s only $2.99, and the Universal Buy Link is here

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The Third Edition of THE GRAVEYARD OF ABANDONED PROJECTS releases today! If you’re overwhelmed by unfinsihed projects, this will help you organize them, finish some, and regain control.

Universal Buy Link

This short mystery has re-released over multiple digital channels.

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My flash fiction piece “Discoveries” about tensions in the marriage between a scientist and a witch, is up on my Ko-fi page. I’m test-driving these characters to see if I want to explore them in more depth. The tensions in the marriage interest me. I

https://ko-fi.com/post/Flash-Fiction-Discoveries-by-Cerridwen-Iris-Shea-F1F6DDWLF

When a man is hanged from the oak tree in a Redcoat uniform at an historic house just before the Independence Day program, Glenda is determined to both solve the murder and protect the newly-opened museum. What she finds is much darker — and more personal — than she bargained.

I’m excited about the re-release of this short story. Please visit the Delectable Digital Delights page or the Bazaar page for buy links.

I’ve been a subscriber to the monthly Goddess Provisions box for several years now, and love it. They’ve sent several terrific tarot and oracle decks over the years, and the Rituals for Self Care deck is one of my favorites. I use it every week.

Because Mercury Retrograde is such a chaotic time, I wanted to pull cards of advice for each week of the retrograde. You can study the entire spread on my Ko-Fi page.