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2024 is Coming

To piggyback off Kit’s post (because I have no creativity whatsoever this week), I’ve been doing some noodling about 2024 and what I want to accomplish. This year has been a bit of a mixed bag writing-wise, some good, some not-so-good, and I’d like to ramp it up a bit, assuming there are no horrific crises or emergencies or general ongoing unpleasantness that makes things, well, unpleasant. So let’s talk about how things went this year first, shall we? I had a few goals. They were: To publish an erotic contemporary romance novella on Radish (similar to Kindle Vella), which was a pivot/experiment to see how readers would respond to my writing in a different genre. Result: The novella, BAV, as I am calling it, is about 1/3rd done. It’s on hold a bit while I figure some stuff out. It ended up being a bit deeper than I’d intended, delving into subjects like parental control, religious cults, and BDSM. Sooo I am deciding if I want to go all in, or if I want to rein it in some. To finish my anthology story. Result: I rewrote it twice, and started yet another rewrite which I believe will be the last. It just wasn’t working the first two times. It’s about 5,000 words now. Again, on hold, but I have full intentions of finishing. This antho has had a floating deadline, so I’ve been sort of waiting for the muse to get back on board with this one. To…

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The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume II

In celebration of our tenth anniversary, Turtleduck Press has selected the best of our short fiction from the last six years for your reading pleasure. Each author has two stories included, one voted as their best by the members of TDP, and the one they consider their best work personally. Stories included in this collection:Changeling, Erin ZarroBaking Lessons, KD SargeThe Haunting of Heatherbrae Station, Siri Paulson1-800-HAUNTME, Kit CampbellWarped, Erin ZarroCrazy Boy, KD SargeStill Waters, Siri PaulsonDeserts and Domes, Kit Campbell Get your copy here.

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Cover Reveal: The Best of Turtleduck Press, Vol. 2

Hey-ho, everyone! In celebration of our tenth anniversary here at TDP, we’re releasing the second volume in our Best of Turtleduck Press anthology series. Siri introduced you to the anthology last week, so I’m here today to reveal our cover. It’s been great fun to go back through our old stories and pick out our favorites. More information soon!

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Announcing The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume II

We have news to share with you this week! But first, I need to pause and acknowledge that the news outside the book world is spectacularly crappy right now, between the new wave of BLM protests and the ongoing pandemic. If you’re feeling the same, we send solidarity your way. Our own news is more cheerful (we hope). Just to remind you, this year is our tenth anniversary here at TDP. (We can’t believe it either!) To celebrate, we’re releasing a new anthology…with a couple of twists. Way back in 2013, we released The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume I. It featured, as usual, one piece from each of us (a poem by Erin Zarro and three stories by the rest of us). We voted on our favourites of all the short pieces that we had posted monthly on our website since our launch in 2010. It was lovely to pull out the works we had liked the most and give them another chance to shine. So for our tenth anniversary, we decided it was high time to do it again. For The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume II, we’re doing doubles. First we read through our old stories from the past seven years (everything after Volume I was eligible, except for serials that aren’t finished yet) and reminisce about them all. Then we each voted on our favourites of each other’s works…AND we each picked a favourite from our own pieces. So this anthology will feature eight stories, of…

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Adulting Sucks But At Least There’s Coffee

Which is funny, because I was pretty sure I was never going to be a coffee person. First of all, our new anthology is out! It features four stories from the time period between the War and the events in City of Hope and Ruin. All the details can be found here. But seriously, there was a coffee shop in the lobby of the engineering building at university, and I’d meet my friends there all the time, maybe getting some tea, and they were boggled about how I was surviving engineering school without caffeine. (Maybe caffeine would have helped? I did not get a lot of sleep at night and slept through a lot of class, but I think I’m mostly immune to caffeine anyway.) (Moving on.) In a few minutes here I have to take my car to the dealership for a major recall fix (apparently the passenger side airbag becomes more and more likely to explode incorrectly as time goes on), which is a pain in the butt. I have at least coerced them into giving me a rental car so I don’t have to wait around (with the smallest, mobile one) for six hours while they replace the airbag. Two weeks ago, I had to have the washing machine repaired. And two weeks before THAT I had sinus surgery, which I shall be paying for forever. I mean, nothing’s a catastrophe. But, Goddess, can’t things stop falling apart? Can’t we go a few months where there are…

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