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April 2025: April Imaginings.  Writing Life (1764 contest), In the Works (short stories), creative Journey (Kansas City).  Behind the Myth: Imagining Ancient Funerals.  Story Sparks: Crafting Subtext.  Reviews: Sistersong, The River Has Roots, Thorn.  Subscriber Link.

March 2025: Spring Forth!  Creative Journey (classes), In the Works (Sky God's Warrior).  Behind the Myth: Spring Maiden. Story Sparks: Creatures of the Night.  Reviews: Being Seen,  The Tainted Cup, Remnant Population.  For sharing: Subscriber Link.
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February 2025: February Fever.  Writing Life.  Creative Journey (Sea God's Lover).  Poetry Package.  In the Works.  Story Sparks: Scene Architecture. 
Reviews: ​City of Stairs, City of Blades, City of Miracles. 
​For sharing: Subscriber Link.
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January 2025: Winter Song. Published: "Singularity Storm."  Creative Journey (Sea God's Lover).  Poem: "Winter Song."  Behind the Myth: The Green Man.  Reviews: The Hidden Life of Trees, The Word for World is Forest, Be More Tree.  Writing Life.   Subscriber link.
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December 2024: December to Remember.  Published: "Fortune and Luck in Ancient Assyria."  In the Works (submissions on Duotrope).  Story Sparks: Being a Bird.  Creative Journey (update on Sky God's Warrior).  Reviews: Demon Copperhead, The Witch's Heart, Best New Romantic Fantasy, Mythic Journeys. Writing Life 2024: Publications, Events, Classes, Blog Highlights.
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November 2024: November Render. In the Works (submissions). Behind the Myth: Tricksters  Creative Journey and Writing Life (Sky God's Warrior updates). Reviews: Disability Visibility, I Love You but I Hate Your Politics, Say the Right Thing, I am Ashurbanipal. 
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October 2024: October Ogre. Author Spotlight: Karen Altergott Roberts.  Story Sparks: Embracing Fear. In the Works (short stories), Creative Journey (Sky God's Warrior), Writing Life (Archon 47).  Reviews: Klara and the Sun; Fearless Writing; The Horse, the Wheel, and Language; The Courage to Write.  Behind the Myth: Victory (goddess). 
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September 2024: September Embers. Reprints from Where Rivers Meet.  Update on Sky God's Warrior.  Story Sparks: Human Hunters & Alien Brains. 
​Behind the Myth: Women Leaders. 
Reviews: The Spear Cuts Through Water; A Sorceress Comes to Call; An Immense World; What makes a Hero? 
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August 2024: August Harvest.  Excerpt from Sky God's Warrior (Harvestfest).  Art shapes our world.  Behind the Myth: Justice. Story Sparks: Serving Plants.  Reviews: The Light Eaters, Disability Intimacy. 
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July 2024: July Lullaby. Creative Journey & perfectionism.  Website updates. 
​Story Sparks: Creating Microtension. Updates on Sky God's Warrior. 
Reviews: Stories are Weapons,  Assyria,  Empire of Horses,  The Fire in Fiction. 
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June 2024: June Jingle.  Author Spotlight: Annie Reed.  Updates on Sky God's Warrior: 2/3 mark! Behind the Myth: Fire Goddess Tabiti.  Story Sparks: Whacky Weeds.  Reviews: The Imposter Heiress, Dead Country, Three Weeks with My Brother, Art & Fear.  ​Poem: Garden Seasons.
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May 2024: May Missive.  Updates on Sky God's Warrior.  Story Sparks: Rewarding Gluttony: Cicadas. 
Reviews: Pandora's Jar,  Age of Ash, The Magician's Daughter,  Supercommunicators. 
​Poem: Garden Fairy.

April 2024: April Alignment.  Updates on Sky God's Warrior.  Aphrodite.  Reviews: A Covenant of Water, The Jasmine Throne, What Moves the Dead, The Scythians.  Poem: Solar Eclipse.

March 2024: March Merriment. Published: "Inanna Eclipsed."  Microbes: Universes within Us.  Creative Journey, Writing Life, Nerding out on Dune 2.  Reviews: A Closed and Common Orbit, The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women, Spellcast, Heartwood.  
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February 2024: February Brouhaha.  Publishing updates.  Updates on Sky God's Warrior.  Reviews: Pump Six; Asian Pulp; Beginning, Middles, & Ends; 1,000 Words. Fire Goddess Brigid. 
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January 2024: January Jazz. Updates on Sky God's Warrior.  Reviews: How to keep house while drowning; Memories of Ice; Just Write. Writing with Authority.  
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December 2023: Writing Life 2023. Publications, Awards, Events, Classes.
Reviews: Queens of Innis Lear; Thornhedge; The Forest Unseen; Underworld. Warrior Goddesses. Update on ​Sky God's Warrior.
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November 2023: November Noodles.  Reviews: Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet; The Future Second by Second; Characters, Emotion, & Viewpoint; Plot & Structure. Space Trash. ​Sky God's Warrior update.
Bonus material: Dynamic Setting; Poem: ​Autumn Song
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October 2023: October Odysseys. 
​Reviews:​ Tracker 220; Annihilation. Genderqueer Gods. Multiple Storylines 
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September 2023: September Sombreros.
Reviews: How to be an Antiracist; Pretty, Pretty Boys; Write Away; Character. Building Inclusive Worlds.
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August 2023: August Aurochs.
Reviews: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fischer; Story.  Updates on Sky God's Warrior and Sea God's Lover.  Nomads. Social Media.
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July 2023: July Jewels. Published: book review: Pagan Portals - Lugh. Writing Life: Fear and resilience. Ideal Readers.
Reviews: Not a Princess; Writing for Emotional Impact; Rogue Protocol; Exit Strategy.  Animism.  Extremophiles. 
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June 2023: June Toons.  Published: ​"Dragon Moon."  Dragon Moon Origins.  Race+Class=Death. 
Reviews: Pledging Season; A Paradise Built in Hell; All Systems Red; Artificial Condition.  Update on Sea God's Lover.
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May 2023:  May Magic.  Published: "Forest Magic." 
Reviews: The Bruising of Qilqa; Scourge of the Seas. Crafting Emotional Resonance. What we write creates our world . . .
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April 2023: April Foolishness.  Writing seminar highlights.
Reviews: Girl, Serpent, Thorn;  Water Logic; Writing Down the Bones; How to Write Killer Fiction.  Grendel's Mother.
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March 2023:  March Mayhem. Rhysling Nomination for "Home from the Wizard Wars."
Reviews: Earth Logic; Techniques of the Selling Writer.  Children of Ash and Elm.  Poems: ​Waiting Room,  S-O-S,  Labyrinth
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February 2023: February Fun. Annie Reed's Catch Her if You Can.  Sibling Rivalry.  Parthenogenesis.
Reviews: Fire Logic; A Conspiracy of Truths & A Choir of Lies; The Emotional Craft of Fiction.  Poem: Daffodil Fingers
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January 2023: A Writing Odyssey.  
Reviews: A Taste of Gold and Iron; You've Got a Book in You.  Short Story Writing.
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December 2022: Where Rivers Meet. Published: ​"I Love the Ballpark," "Summer Amusment," "Arch Magic."
Reviews: The Witch King; The Paper Menagerie; The Book of Gothel; Refuse to be Done.  Of M.I.C.E and Ken.  Power of Practice.
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November 2022: 1 Million & Counting.  Tiamat versus Marduk.  Rumplestiltskin.
Reviews: Black Pulp; A Snake Falls to Earth; Zen in the Art of Writing; Writing the Other.  Poem:​ Dear Daddy-O 
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October 2022: Wizard Wars.  Published: "Home from the Wizard Wars."
Reviews: The Bone Marrow Thieves; Nettle & Bone; The Art of Character; The Witches are Coming.
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September 2022: September Celebrations!  Writing Life: ChiCon 8, Archon 45, online classes.​
Reviews: If Nietzche were a Narwhal; Every Father's Daughter; The Best of World SF. 

August 2022: August Favorites.  Behind the Myth: Sirens as Woman Empowered.  Story Sparks: Resources for "Arch Magic."  Reviews: The Forest for the Trees; Sounds Wild and Broken; Even Greater Mistakes; Mexican Gothic; The Broken Heart of America.  Poem: ​I Love the Ballpark 
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July 2022: Sunsets.  National Sunset Week: Joy's sunset picture.   Flash Story: "Sirens."
Reviews: Cultish; Light from Uncommon Stars. Poem: Independence Day 2022   
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June 2022: Inside Forest Heart.  Published: "Forest Heart" and book review, The Four Profound Weaves.
Reviews: Shit Cassandra Saw; Wordslut; The War of Art; Fevered Star; The Four Profound Weaves.  Behind the Myth: #Me Too Medusa. Story Sparks: Cockroach Sex.