Storytelling Across Genre
I am honored to be a part of the Boiler House Poets Collective this year, in residence at MASSMoCA, from the end of September into early October.
If you’re in the Berkshires, I hope you will stop by for this reading, done with my amazing fellow poets.
(Yes, there will be snacks — and it’s FREE)
Deadly Dramatics launches on Kindle Vella on July 26, with episodes going live on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Season 1 has 125 episodes.
Set in NYC in 1996, featuring recent NYU grad Nina Bell, trying to build a theatre career while navigating love, lust, theatre, rock ‘n roll, and murder.
Check out the video below.
A witch.
An angel.
An impossible task.
A devil calls in a marker, forcing witch Lianna Maplethorpe to hunt a renegade angel. It gets even more complicated and dangerous when the renegade turns out to be Lianna’s own Guardian Angel, who she believed abandoned her. As magical conflicts escalate in 2004’s New York City between differing factions, deeper and darker magic than Lianna has ever faced force her to grow – or die.
Urban Fantasy set in a slightly alt-New York City.
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.
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
.
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.
