#Bound Anthology ebook free

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TransRightsReadathon Sales & Freebies!

I will be collecting books that are reduced or made available for free by authors for the TransRightsReadathon here. Feel free to share any that you know of that I might have missed:

Queeird: A Collection of Unusual Trans Masculine Erotica edited by Max Turner | ebook 2,80 £, paperback 6,30 £

Androids and aliens, werewolves and vampires, furries and… tentacles? This is a collection of unusual, and at times monstrous, erotica featuring trans masculine characters. From the ridiculous to the romantic, expect kinks, quirks and tropes. All the stories feature trans masculine main characters, with a variety of cis, trans female, trans male and non-binary lovers.

Deck the Holes by WrenVLothaire | ebook 0.50$

It’s Yule, a celebration Aloysius is well versed in but never has the time of year been his favorite. But with Malachai, a partner with whom he’s come to love and cherish, this holiday may not be as somber as it’s always been. This time he has a surprise in store. Let’s just hope the owner of the home approves of the decorations. t4t, trans man MC

Tales of Genesis I-III by H.S. Wolfe | ebook free, (the book one that these short stories are based on costs 1.99$)

Out of the Rain by TinyLesbianRobot | ebook 0.50$

Echo interrupts a lazy morning with a strange request of Ender. The first in a series of shorts set in the Genesis universe and can be read as a stand alone without having read In The Garden Of Echo t4t, trans man MC & trans woman MC

The weather has taken a turn, forcing Flax and Lost to rush for shelter.  But now that they've found a place to dry off, Lost's drenched clothes are clinging to her, and Flax is finding it difficult to keep from staring... This story is a non-canon short set in the world of my novel 'Messenger': just under ten thousand words of warm, fluffy, robot-on-angel-on-human smut, a cozy and affectionate scene between women who love each other a whole lot. transfemme MC

Rien Gray's Trans Rights Readathon Sale | ebooks 60% off, $6.00 for 2 books

Follow a fellowship of sapphic knights as they’re seduced by witches, queens, goddesses—and each other—in a dark, lush fantasy inspired by Arthurian legend. genderfluid butch MC, agender MC

Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray | ebook free (+ other free sapphic books)

genderfluid butch MC

Our Monsters by Jemma Topaz | ebook 69% off, $1,23

Rosemary Dulahan, answering a strange job posting, arrives in Monstertown – a place inhabited by magical beings from another world. Navigating the politics of sphinxes, lamias, and secrets, she must learn how to get along with her non-human coworkers and maybe romance a few monster girls along the way. There's nothing she wants less than getting caught up in a murder mystery troubling all of Monstertown… but the mystery doesn't care what she wants, and she's about to discover the darker side of her new world. trans woman MC

A.A. Fairviews TransRightsReadathon Bundle | ebook free

In celebration of the second TransRightsReathon you can grab A Doctor's Touch and Peaceful in the Dark for free.  Following a trans masc vampire and queer werewolf- these stories are as sweet as they are sensual.  transmasc MC

Bury your Gays & Bound in Flesh | ebook free

Anthology of tragic queer horror & anthology of trans body horror by ghoulish books

The Fealty of Monsters by Ladz | ebook free

Winter 1917. After years on the run from a dangerous cult, twenty-three-year-old Sasza and his father have established themselves among the Odonic Empire’s ruling class. But there’s a problem: Sasza is a vampire, and vampires aren’t supposed to get involved in human governance. What the aristocracy doesn’t know, after all, cannot hurt them. Unfortunately, Sasza is far more involved than a stealth vampire should be. Not only does he work to quell the rumors of the vampires’ responsibility for an unsolved massacre, his lover is also the pro-proletariat Ilya, the Empire’s Finance Minister, who tries to recruit Sasza into the same cult hunting him. Then—the Emperor declares war against the Vampire States. Diplomacy has failed. Sasza quickly learns that he will do anything to preserve peace–including giving in to the monstrosity he spent so many years concealing from even himself. nonbinary MC

Trans Readathon by Wicked Witch Writes | ebook 50% off, $5

Your Body is Not Your Body anthology | ebook $1,99

A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways. A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror. A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star before the mission devolves into a panoply of psychedelic orgies. A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault and dishes out some harrowing retribution of their own. Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional Horror go out the f$%&ing window in this collection featuring murderous pleasure-bots; proselytizing zombies; acid-filled alien cops; science run amok; sorcerers, ghouls, cannibals...and that barely scratches the grave-dirt.

Blood from Stone by Bellamy Scott | ebook PWYW

Hitting a deer while driving a country road is unfortunate, but common enough that no one expects it to re-order the fabric of reality as they know it. For Sam, a rogue stag on a summer night takes his husband, his life, and his name in a single blow. As months of grief pass, he things he's begun to get used to his new reality, until an encounter with a childhood friend changes it all over again. BLOOD FROM STONE is a story of an old lady doing good deeds for bloody boys on the side of the road, of poisoned wine, and of a trans man Becoming Real.

Becoming Light by Riley Nash | ebook free

When people meet me, they see a bright faced, happy-go-lucky kindergarten teacher who will do anything to support his friends. Not everyone knows the struggle I’ve faced to become the man I am today.  Now it’s finally time for the gender-affirming surgery I’ve been dreaming of for years. But when an emergency leaves me without a caretaker, the only person who can take me in is my best friend’s aloof, reclusive, and incredibly sexy dad. The one who has no bedside manner and struggles to communicate. The one I’ve had a crush on for years. The deeper we see into each other’s worlds, the stronger the attraction gets. I’m not sure either of us can make it through the next four days without giving in. Trans man MC

​TransRightsReadathon Sale by Matthew Zakharuk | ebook 50% off, $2.50

a story of trans transhumanism + a dystopian gothic

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[Publishing] FREE BOOK ALERT!

Fantastic news! In celebration of Sim Kern’s Trans Rights Readathon, Ghoulish Books are prereleasing a FREE ebook version of the Bound In Flesh anthology for Readathon participants. Click through to Sim Kern’s Trans Rights Readathon to learn what’s involved in signing up, and which charities you can donate to. My current preference is TENI, the Transgender Equality Network Ireland, but there are…

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Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook/Novelette Contest

The winner of the annual Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook / Novelette Contest wins a $1,000 prize, publication of the perfect bound pocket series chapbook / novelette with a full color cover by Omnidawn, 100 free copies of the winning chapbook / novelette, and extensive display advertising and publicity, including prominent display ads in Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books and other publications.

Guidelines:

For this contest, Fabulist Fiction includes magic realism and literary forms of fantasy, science fiction, horror, fable, and myth. Stories can be primarily realistic, with elements of non-realism, or primarily, or entirely non-realistic.

Open to all writers worldwide. There are no citizenship or residency requirements or limitations.

Postal and online submissions are accepted from around the world.

Manuscripts must be in English, although it is perfectly acceptable to include some text in other languages.

This contest is identity-hidden (formerly referred to as a blind contest), so you can submit manuscripts that contain identifying information, but please be aware that such information will be removed from manuscripts before they are passed on to our editors who select manuscripts to be sent to the judge.

Manuscript submissions for all contests must be original.

Stories are NOT eligible for inclusion within a submission if they have been previously published online or in print or Ebook editions.

We recommend that you keep the total length of your manuscript between 7,500 and 17,500 words, consisting of either one story or multiple stories.

Simultaneous submissions to other contests are perfectly acceptable. Please send us an email to let us know if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

Revisions are not allowed to a manuscript after it has been submitted to the contest. However, the winning author will have time to revise the manuscript before publication. We do reserve the right to get approval from the judge if those revisions are significant.

The reading fee is $18 per entry. For $2 extra to cover shipping cost, entrants may choose to receive a copy of the winning chapbook or any Omnidawn fiction title, including our highly acclaimed ParaSheres anthology of fabulist and new wave fabulist fiction. A complete list of all Omnidawn fiction titles is available at www.omnidawn.com/product-category/fiction

Multiple submissions to this contest are acceptable, but each manuscript must be submitted separately, with a separate entry fee.

Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between September 1 and October 31, 2021 at midnight Pacific Daylight Time.

NOT ELIGIBLE are translations; collaborations by more than one author; students, colleagues, or close friends of the judge, Kellie Wells; Omnidawn past and present staff and interns; authors of books Omnidawn has published, and winners of previous Omnidawn BOOK and CHAPBOOK contests. Winners of Omnidawn's Broadside Contest are still eligible to enter and win Omnidawn BOOK and CHAPBOOK contests.

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Grey had always loved books (for as long as he could remember, anyway, and he could remember a long way). It was why he had come to the Academy. The Academy was the way to the Library, and he had decided he wanted the path of his life to meander to those halls of books and stay there. What was the use of this one world at his fingertips, compared to the thousands hidden within all those pages? A week into his Academy life, comfortably settled among the books and quills scattered in his bed just the way he wanted them, a tardy redheaded barbarian had stepped into Grey’s room (Grey’s life). Jack had been barefoot and staring, tentative within the old walls but standing in his own skin as though he’d never thought of living any life but his. (Grey couldn’t count the number of times he had felt bound and breathless in skin too small to belong to his father’s callused son; or stared at his long fingers and felt they were too big for him, that they could stretch out and grasp things he wished were safely out of his reach, dreams he didn’t want to dream, power he didn’t want to have at his beck and call. It was why he kept them inkstained, smudges between whorls of fingerprints and faint freckles. When Grey felt lost, drowning in too much self, straining against too little, he’d rub his thumb over drying cursive, paint his name in the palm of his hand). A week into the Academy, a boy with the calluses Grey’s father had always dreamed of stepped through the dorm room door. Grey didn’t ask his name; he’d already read it off the door. It was the part of the boy that had been written down so of course it was the only part that mattered.   Nineteen months later, and Grey was waist deep in the river shouting advice about krakens, was cross-legged in his room with books piled above his head and a young woman chewing on her pen and spitting answers back at him like it was something to win, was wrapped up in a quilt drinking Jack’s best tea while the Elsewhere played a brass band in his bones, was breaking curses and ducking stray manticore thorns and chasing down gremlins with enchanted silver nets.   Nineteen months later, and Grey was wrapped up in a guide’s wide grin, tinged with a bravery that was earned and not born, a mage who shot bulls-eyes like it was something she owed the world, a hero who slipped them forgotten jackets and green apples and bruise balm like someone might punish him for the kindness. Nineteen months later, and Grey could see worlds in the curl of Jack’s bare toes when the wind blew down from the north. Stories were being written in every flick of Laney’s eyelashes, her slyest grin and the way she disappeared into perfect propriety when someone walked into the room, except for the taut muscles of her forearms. Rupert’s pen filled in forms and files and reports but all Grey wanted to do was to ask him about the scar on his left hand, or the farthest he had ever been from home. (Grey, presently, was as far as he had ever been, or possibly the very closest). They were anthologies. They were dictionaries and thesauruses for words he would never be able to translate. They were plays and rotting scrolls and old love letters and standing rune stones worn by centuries. They were being written before his ink-smudged nose. He would never catch up; he would die trying to read all of them, to find their translations, the best poems in their worst days. But Laney would yank the fire from his hands and run her fingers through it like she was carding wool, looking for secrets. Rupert would slip him a pair of thick mittens and travel cake stuffed with blueberries, which Grey had never admitted were his favorite (on her best days, his mother had gone out and picked them from spindly mountain bushes and held his hand, inkstained even then). And Jack would grin at him from across the hall, wrinkle his nose like it was another language to learn, and Grey would have to look down and bite his tongue to keep from laughing aloud, because somewhere, somehow, impossibly, he had learned it after all.

Beanstalk by E. Jade Lomax (download the (free) ebook here)

[writeinspiration]

How Long Should Your Novel Be? (The Definitive Answer)

Text of the article pasted below!

Many aspiring novelists ask themselves, “How long should my novel be?” The answer to this question is surprisingly complex. There are multiple issues that need to be to addressed… and I’m going to cover ALL of them in this article.So let’s get it!

My Journey

It took me eight years to craft my debut novel, The Page Turners.

Eight years is far too long to spend writing a first book. Looking back, I cringe at the thought of what I could have created in the time I wasted drafting and redrafting that novel.

One of the many reasons it took me so long to write my first book was that, like many rookie authors, I wanted my debut to be an epic story. I had twenty-five years worth of life experiences, thoughts, emotions, and stories to draw from, and I was determined to cram all of it into a novel that would dazzle readers and immediately launch my literary career into the stratosphere of superstardom!

At one point, the manuscript for The Page Turners was up to 130,000 words, but the published version is a little over 55,000; hardly an epic.

But you know what? Stephen King’s first novel wasn’t The Stand. It was a tight-packed little masterpiece called Carrie.

Once I followed King’s lead by focusing on intimacy and letting go of my aspirations of a sweeping and grand narrative, the project finally become manageable. After years spent struggling with this beast of a story, I was suddenly dealing with a focused and fast-paced narrative that had a clear theme and a nice sense of rhythm and harmony.

Before long, finally publishing the book was no longer a distant pipe dream; it had actually become an attainable goal. In shortening the length of my novel, I made my life as a writer much easier.

The Benefits of Short

It’s easier to redraft and review a shorter novel.

It’s easier to convince beta readers to give it a look, and you get their feedback much quicker.

As an indie author, it’s significantly cheaper to pay for copy-editing of a shorter novel, and the production costs of printing the final books are also more affordable.

Across the board, virtually everything becomes easier and more do-able once you commit to shortening your novel.

A shorter book also forces an author to focus with laser-like accuracy on the story’s most important elements: the plot and lead characters. Tangents, supporting characters, and non-relevant aspects of the narrative are kept to a bare minimum because there simply isn’t room for them in a short book.

Tell an enthusiastic young writer you need them to write a 2,000-word article, and there’s a good chance they’ll return with 4,000 words of mostly unusable material. On the other hand, tell them you need 500 words and not a single word more… and they might just come up with something great!

I’m quite fond of the Orson Well’s quote, “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations,” and I think it can be applied wonderfully to word count. Keep the book short, and you’re much more likely to create good art. At the very least, you’ll reduce the chances of creating bad art. (The only thing worse than a bad novel is a bad novel of epic length!)

With all of this in mind, I tell my writing students to aim for a 55,000 word novel for their debut book. A total of 55,000 words is the perfect length for a rookie author. It’s short and sweet, and it forces the writer to stick to the point, something young writers often struggle with. And, of course, as mentioned earlier, it makes the entire project more manageable.

Is a 55,000 Word Manuscript Novel Length?

In his article, “Word Count: How Long Should a Book Be?”, Glen C Strathy turns to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s (SFFWA) criteria for the Nebula Awards to determine his word count criteria.

Here’s how the SFFWA defines the stories they review for the award:

Short story – under 7,500 words

Novelette – 7,500 to 17,500 words

Novella – 17,500 to 40,000 words

Novel – anything over 40,000 words

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) (an annual event that challenges writers to craft a novel within the month of November) identifies 50,000 words as the minimum target for their definition of a novel.

As such, by either the SFFWA or the NaNoWriMo’s definition, a 55,000-word book is certainly novel-length.

That said, if you would prefer to turn to general opinion and/or critical regard to determine the minimum length of a novel, consider The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is only 55,000 words long, and it’s considered by many – myself included – to be one of the greatest novels ever written.

In fact, a number of my favourite novels of all time are around this length: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, to name but a few!

As this list clearly demonstrates, despite what many young authors mistakenly believe, more words are not always better. From Kafka to Carroll, some of the greatest prose writers ever to live chose to produce shorter novels.

In Praise of Long

Despite my recommendation that aspiring authors focus their efforts on producing a shorter book as their initial publication, I would be remiss to ignore the variety of well-loved long novels out there.

In her Salon.com article, “Why we love loooong novels”, Laura Miller provides a convincing argument in praise of the epic. She also references the New York Times report that author Garth Risk Hallberg received a $2 million advance for his 900-page debut, City on Fire – a clear indication a shorter debut novel is not always the best route to critical acclaim and financial riches!

Riffing on Miller’s article, Maddie Crum’s Huffington Post article, “An Ode to Unaccelerated Reading” lists ten excellent novels well worth their page count, and I’m sure we all have a beloved epic tome or two weighing down our bookshelves.

In fact, it was likely my love of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Stephen’s King’s The Stand that got me into trouble with The Page Turners word count in the first place.

I’m not arguing that a novel must be short to be great; I’m simply suggesting that if you want to make the transition from aspiring author to published author in as smooth a manner as possible, you may want to save your epic for your sophomore release.

Industry Standards by Genre

Of course, only a few of the short novels I mentioned earlier were debut releases, and today’s modern writers, especially those looking to break into the mainstream publishing industry, would be wise to take into account industry standards when it comes to determining world count for their work in progress.

In a helpful article written for Writer’s Digest in 2012, Chuck Sambuchino outlines recommended word counts for various different genres of books. His recommended word counts are as follows:

Commercial and literary novels for adults – 80K to 90K

Sci-fi and Fantasy – 100K to 115K

Young Adult – 55K to 70K

In another article on word count and book length, “How Long is a Book? Determine Your Novel’s Genre, Subgenre, and Best Word Count”, Ronnie Smith expands on Sambuchino’s list by adding some additional genres to the mix:

Romance – 80K to 100K

Mystery – 75K to 100K

Thriller – 90K to 100K

Western – 45K – 75K

These recommendations are extremely helpful to keep in mind while working on your book, particularly if you intend to secure an agent and a traditional publisher for your work.

Keep in mind, however, that Sambuchino and Smith’s recommendations are based on the long-entrenched requirements of the traditional book publishing industry. As such, the recommended word counts are largely the result of industrial standards and therefore have more to do with the production requirements of paperback books than they do anything related to storytelling technique, artistic aspirations, or the preferences of readers.

New Standards

In recent years, the rise of ebooks, along with the ever-increasing ease with which independent authors can self-publish their work via web and print-on-demand has completely changed book industry standards in terms of word counts requirements.

With storytelling becoming increasingly digitalized, the very meaning of terms like “books” and “novels” are being consistently destabilized.

Ebooks come in a variety of forms and lengths, and print-on-demand can turn a project of any reasonable word count into a paperback publication. Authors are now free to craft books and novels with word counts that are bound only by the author’s imagination and creativity, and the audience’s receptivity.

Hugh Howey’s hit self-published “novel” Wool was originally released as a series of e-novellas. Authors Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt are releasing serial fiction that is then collected together into “seasons”, thereby combining 19th century Charles Dickens-like publishing model with that of modern television. Erotic authors, riding the surging 50 Shades of Grey wave, are consistently finding new and innovative ways to get their work into reader’s hands, including bundling books from several authors together to create what is, essentially, an anthology of novellas.

Where to From Here?

If it was difficult to determine exactly how long a novel should be in the past, it’s only going to become increasingly more difficult in the future. As independent authors continue to push the boundaries and test what digital publishing and print-on-demand have to offer, and as the traditional publishing industry attempts to keep up with technological innovations reshaping the publishing landscape, there’s no telling what a “book” might look like in the years to come.

If you’re looking for a career in traditional publishing, educate yourself on the word counts the publishers and agents you’re targeting are looking for. If you are embracing independent publishing, get creative! There’s an exciting world of storytelling possibilities out there, and whether your book is a short jaunt or an epic journey is totally up to you. Remain true to your vision, give your audience the read of a lifetime, and the last thing they will be thinking about is word count.

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It’s here!! You can now buy my anthology of short fiction, DESIRES AND DREAMS AND POWERS, in paperback or ebook. It features the best (imho) of my @hanginggardenstories pieces, plus almost all of my professionally published stories, and three shorts set in the world of CRIMSON BOUND, which I wrote for the blog tour!

(So yes, the stories in here are also available for free online. You’re paying to get them nicely formatted, in ebook/paperback, with some extra line edits/typo removal. I think it’s worth the money, but if you don’t agree you are welcome to head over to my website for the free versions.)

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What is the theme of this Zine?

Dark, Mysterious, or powerful, this is a zine looking to make the best out of the already incredibly cool Paranormal Liberation Front. We want to see our villains at their worst and by that, we mean in the limelight of their villainy. Whether it’s the full blast of Power that Dabi creates with his quirk or the sheer political power that Re-Destro holds, all forms of villainous propaganda are welcome here. Help us in our endeavor to gain more followers to become truly Liberated.

Please note that this means we focus on their success and power. While many villains have despair inducing history that lead to where they are now, that is not the focus of this zine.

Zine Specs

Physical Zine with Physical Merch For profit, with funds going to production first. → If you are under the legal age for your country, you agree that you have your parents permission or are choosing to opt out of monetary compensation. Final dimensions and specs to come.

Who is running this project?

Mod Lucy: 

In charge of Graphics, Social Media, Zine Layout https://twitter.com/cmykae || https://instagram.com/cmykae

Some Previous Zine Experience

BNHA Katsukitchen Graphics, Layout, Communications

BNHA Versed in Quirky Poetry Graphics

BNHA All You Can Eat Graphics & Layout

BNHA Girl Power! Graphics & Layout

BNHA Kiribaku Holiday Graphics & Layout

MYSME Undercover Graphics

MYSME Divinate Marketing Graphics, Layout Assistant

MYSME 707hearts606 Graphics

Participated in events and zines as an illustrator

Real Life Experience

Collaborated with classmates to produce student run events: created websites to advertise events with html/css collected student designs for said events to be printed and displayed

Freelance Illustrator & Graphic Designer created illustrations for postcards and pin buttons

Proficiency in HTML/CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign

Designed, printed, and assembled — single handedly —  books during her BFA : Perfect Bound, Saddle Stitch, Hand Stitched, Coil Bound, Accordion, French fold

Mod ALWINS: 21, Any Pronouns

In charge of Art Direction, Communications https://twitter.com/TTAlwins || https://www.instagram.com/ttalwins/

Experience:

Urban Legend: A DRRR!!! Fanzine: Communication, Organization*, Art Direction Finances/Marketing, Layout/Graphics. *set up the discord server, schedule, email/File templates, wrote FAQ, etc.

Check Please! A Fairy Tail Career Zine: Communications, Organization,  Art Direction, Finances, Production, Shipping, Setup, Layout.

Real life experience as a stage manager and general theatre technician at an events center strong organizational and communication skills

Freelance illustrator/Graphic designer for logo’s and full illustrations Multiple Youtube clients for full illustrations, Series logo’s, thumbnails. Has done logo’s for 3 businesses.

Commissions: Tattoo design, Book cover illustration, Character art, Traditional painting

Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.

Has participated in 15+ zines knows how they work and what needs to be done and at what pace. Seen multiple strategies to make a successful project

Managed and helped develop arts conservatory program in highschool

Worked as an Arts Gallery Coordinator for my high school

Mod HapSky: 22, Any Pronouns

In charge of Production and Shipping https://twitter.com/HapSkyScribbles

Previous Zine Experience

DRRR Urban Legend: Finances, Production, Shipping, Layout Assistant

BNHA Versed in Quirky Poetry: Layout/Format

BNHA Sunshine and Moonlight: Communication, Shipping

BNHA Bubble Tea: Layout/Format

Participated in 10+ zines and events as writer

Responsible for layout/format and production of my uni’s short story anthology series:

Experienced with creating a book’s layout for printing purposes

Experience with the printers/manufacturers, as well as budgeting

Worked with 3 companies on magazines, ebooks and websites

Freelance Author: created and formatted screenplays, picture books, gamebooks, cookbooks, short story collections, poem collections

Proficient in InDesign, Photoshop

Mod Muse 21, She/Her/Hers 

In charge of Writing and Beta https://twitter.com/museflight

Previous Zine Experience

Wonder Duo Rising: Beta Mod

One in a Million: General/Head Mod

Other Fandom Experience

Modded two ‘~ month’ events

Modded gift swap

Beta for 10+ fics

Real Life Experience

Writing for eleven years

English tutoring experience

English major

Mod Vash : 20

In charge of Finances and Store https://twitter.com/bitchWithAsthma

Experience:

Currently an intern webmaster at nonprofit organization, tasked with maintaining current website and evaluating new software

Box Office Manager for 3 years: performed transactions, maintained accounts of ticket sales, handled exchanges and returns, balanced cash box and prepared nightly front of house report

Summer Camp Coordinator: managed all finances and logistics at a month long student day camp, including tracking spending, reimbursing purchases, budgeting funds and handling complaints and concerns

Financial officer for various clubs, collected member dues, kept club accounts, sold t-shirts and coordinated fundraisers

Where will the funds go?

This is a for profit zine, with the funds going to manufacturing first. Ideally, we will be able to send all contributors a full bundle, but this depends on the sales. All contributors will definitely receive the PDF file for the zine free of charge! Merchandise will definitely be offered at production cost to contributors as well.

What are the restrictions on this zine?

This zine is SFW This mean no obsessive gore or nudity. Small amounts of blood are okay! This zine will NOT have shipping Romantic/fluffy pieces will not be allowed! Please stay on theme. This zine will not include theories I.e. [ Redacted ] is the missing Todoroki child.

What are the restrictions on contributors?

All Contributors must have or be willing to make a Discord account.

Contributors retain the right to their work and can redistribute AFTER zine sales close. We will send out a notice when it is okay for contributors to do so.

You may apply for merch, writing,  AND illustration, but you will likely only be chosen for one. Please keep that in mind!

Portfolios with BnHA art is nice, but NOT required.

Traditional art is accepted, but it must be scanned in high quality and at least 300 DPI.

Additionally you must be able to adjust value/color/etc in Photoshop or give permission/work with a mod to do this.

Contributors will be picked on skill alone.

Although bigots, racists, homophobes etc. will be automatically crossed off our list :^]

Contributors will be assigned a base character and will need to clear the inclusion of other characters with a mod to ensure we don’t have, Toga for example,  in everyone’s piece. It’s just to keep track of the character diversity in the zine.

Characters from the entire Paranormal Liberation Front will be included in the zine

Characters will be assigned based on the quality of pitch delivered to their respective mods (Art mod, or Writing mod for Illustration/Merch, or Writing respectively).

Contributor REQs Show us your best art/style that you plan to use for the zine. We have a preference to see good art and writing rather than BnHA pieces. We are judging strictly on your skills as an artist!

Illustrators

We’re looking for an understanding of anatomy and design principles. Things like composition, color, perspective, hierarchy, rhythm. The application itself will ask for a medium portfolio 7-15 pieces. This can be a google drive folder, or a personal website etc. (just not a cluttered social media). Literal backgrounds are not required; however, we are still looking at your backgrounds and compositions. We’re looking for how a piece works altogether. That being said, pieces with backgrounds have higher potential as it allows detail, setting, and perspective. Please note, we love a contributor who can follow directions on 7-15 pieces.

Merch

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We’re looking for contributors with solid characterization, grammar, wordflow, and know how to convey a mood. We will be asking for three writing examples of 1k-3k. You may also include a portfolio if you so desire. Portfolios may be a direct link to your Archive of our Own account or hosted on google drive, caard, wix, or another similar website. Please do not give us a link to a tumblr tag. Examples do not need to be BNHA, but they cannot be NSFW. Show us fics similar to what you want to write for the zine. Please remember that for the zine itself, we want your pieces to feel like a form of power propaganda!

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Make You Beg by Shantel Tessier

I beg you to read this book! 👑👑👑👑👑

This book was one gasp-inducing, jaw-dropping, mind freak, messed up, twisty, emotional, dirty hot read that I enjoyed every minute of and loved! I beg you to read it too if you love these types of reads! The prologue took me in it’s grip, and the book never let me go. I was riveted to the pages by the mystery of what happened that night and what The Reapers had planned for Henley. Henley was a complicated girl: she had a backbone yet at times I felt like she could be shallow. At a certain point in the story, I knew I cared about her, because I cried tears for her. I won’t say anything about The Reapers so you can get to know them for yourself, but Reaper Grayson Harrison Law took my heart and he can keep it! I hope several characters from this book get their own. This was my first time reading this author, but it won’t be my last. I highly recommend this book!

*I requested and received a copy of this ebook for my honest review that I am voluntarily leaving.*

▪️Blurb:

To the world, she’s known as Henley Greene.

To me, she’s a little doll— a toy to be played with and tossed to the side once no longer wanted. 

She will pay for her betrayal however I deem necessary. 

Imagine living in a constant nightmare where you have no control. Running from someone or something, you can hear him getting closer and feel his breath on your neck. You know that no matter what you do, he’s going to get you. 

He will win.

But I don’t have just one. I have four. 

Ryan Scout, Van Rellik, Dax Monroe, and Grayson Law are the Reapers of Westbrook High, my ex-best friends, and now my biggest enemies. They run the school and own this town. They want nothing more than to make me pay for what I saw that night at Death Valley. A sick and twisted game that leaves me dirty and bruised with torn clothing. 

So how did I fall in love with one?

I was raised to fear the dark side, but he showed me it was in the dark where the truth came to light. He played with me until my body craved his touch. I was going to prove I could be his most trusted servant in every form of the word. Whether kneeling before him or lying on my back, my sole purpose in life was to be his.  

But when you’re a toy everyone likes to play with, you’re bound to end up broken.

Make You Beg: A Dark Bully Romance was previously published in the Bully Me: Class of 2020 Anthology but has now been reworked and expanded into a new full-length story.

📌 Available Now! FREE in Kindle Unlimited! 

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Witches, Princesses and Women at Arms

I am so thrilled to be featured in this new anthology of erotic lesbian fairytales (the best combination of three words I can think of) edited by Sacchi Green and published by Cleis Press.  I have read the published anthology and can attest to there being a story that will appeal to everyone.  You want action and plot with swords and dragons? Gotcha.  How about lyrical writing and slow-burning love? No problem. Pure, decadent smut? But of course! Comedy and sexy banter? Sure thing.  Whatever sort of tone or mood you’re looking for, you’ll find it in this delicious collection of brilliant writers.  It’s super flattering to be a part of it.

My story is called “Woodwitch,” and it was probably the fastest short story I’ve ever written.  Over the course of two evenings the words flew off the page. Even though I’ve never written a similar story before, I think that ‘fairytale voice’ was already in my hands and fingers.  I just had to uncurl them, and it was free.  I was raised on old dusty books of fairytales, where the princesses were always fair, the witches always hideous, and the endings always wet with blood and justice.  “Woodwitch” tells a familiar story: a princess disguises herself as a man and goes off to war.  However, the story diverges a bit on the battlefield, where the princess meets a truly uncommon witch. I tried to capture a little of that old fairytale darkness: the threat of violence that lies at the edge of the woods, or in the witch’s cottage, or behind the keen eyes of the wolf.  There’s definitely a bit of “Game of Thrones” inspiration as well; my world is vaguely magical and medieval, but with a healthy dose of modern day sexism and war-mongering. (One day I SWEAR I’m going to write a fairytale where women don’t have to disguise themselves as men to go to war, and are free to live the lives they please without fear.  It seems sad that I could imagine a world of magic and witchcraft, but gender equality just seemed a little too much of a stretch...)

Anyway. Wanna take a peak?

The battle raged for the rise and fall of two moons, and when at last the enemy ran staggering from their sight, the princess found herself slick with sweat and blood. She had cut down two men, she knew that much. Maybe more. One had his throat slit open, wet red roses blooming over the dry earth. One had her sword buried in his belly, opened up around her blade like rotten meat. The princess had been sick after that, but the ground was so mired in filth, the air so ripe with smoke, that no one had taken any notice of her.

There were fewer of her number than before, and as she stood amidst the thinned crowd of the injured and the dying, she realized that her leg was bleeding.

Cursing, she tore a strip from her tunic. The cut was high and deep, rending both skin and muscle. Even as she bound it, blood spilled from the bandage like dark fingers, the pain enough to make her dizzy. She had felt numb before, fueled only by pure and terrified survival, but in the aftermath of battle all her injuries were making themselves known. Her muscles screamed with exhaustion, her ribs throbbed where she had been kicked. She took a hesitant step, and felt bile at the back of her throat.

She wondered if her brothers had felt like this after battle. She wondered if she was a true knight now, now that she had stopped a man’s heart.

“That wound needs seeing to.���

The princess did not know who spoke until she noticed the dark-haired witch a few yards away, moving like a dancer between the crows and carrion. The princess ignored her, pulling the binding tighter. The witch was not looking at her, crouched and peering into the mouth of a fallen soldier. When she jerked her arm, the princess realized she was pulling teeth from the corpse, strange pinching tools clutched in one hand and a rattling bag in the other.

“It is ungodly to desecrate the dead,” the princess said, despite the heartbeat of pain running from her leg to her throat. 

“The dead don’t need their teeth.” The witch stood, brushing off her skirts. “And the eyetooth of one killed in violence can be used as a charm against drowning.”

“That is ridiculous.”

“Not if a sailor believes it.” The witch looked at the princess then, bird-black eyes narrowed in suspicion.

At last, the princess thought, and then felt alarmed. Those words meant nothing. She had been waiting for nothing.

“The battlefield is no place for a woman,” the princess said, because that was what a true knight would say.

“I am ministering to the wounded.”

“You are mutilating corpses.”

“Bit of both, then.” The witch came closer. “I tell it true, m’lord. That wound will fester if not tended. I’ve seen men lose their legs to shallower cuts.”

“I have bound it. I can see to it myself.”

“Aye, bound it in your own rags, you have. In a fortnight, it will be black and you’ll be begging for your friends to take a blade to it.” The witch knelt suddenly, digging her hands into the soil. After a moment, she rose again, thin fingers clutching damp, gray earth.

“Beggar’s clay,” the witch said, meeting the princess’s eye. “It will draw the sickness out.”

“I have no need of your black magic.” The thought of those hands against her skin made the princess feel nauseous. She hunched her shoulders, ready to be sick, but there was no food in her belly. She sank to her knees and heaved, dryly. The ground was spinning again, and the princess lay down on her back, squeezing her eyes shut. When she opened them, the witch was peering down at her.

“Lie still, for I do not wish to cut you.” With a flash of silver, the witch sliced through the meager bandage with her dagger. The princess flinched, trying to force the other woman away.

“Lie still, I said,” the witch hissed, spitting into her hand before smearing the clay mixture against the princess’s thigh. The relief was immediate, and the princess almost let out a gasp in her true voice, a breathy female gasp that would have revealed her immediately.

Luckily, she composed herself in time. She had been playing this role for too long to let a kohl-eyed crone unmask her now.

“There now,” the witch murmured. “Bind soft cotton over the clay, and change it nightly. In two days’ time, the pain will ebb. In a moon, the scar will fade.”

“Away from me, madwoman.” The princess scrambled backward, putting distance between them. The witch still knelt before her, eyes wide and curious.

“As skittish as a colt, you are. And no more than a lad, I’d bet my throwing stones on it. I’ve never seen a grown man with eyes so blue.”

The princess cast her blue eyes toward the ground. Many knights had thought her a boy before this; it was as good a disguise as any. Still, she remembered the witch’s rough hand on her thigh, and felt a tremor run through her. It might have been fear, but it did not feel like fear.

“Fare thee well, then, my errant knight.” The witch rose, wiping her clay-covered hands on her skirt. She tossed a look over her shoulder as she strode off into the smoke, and the princess watched the corner of her mouth curl, like the whorls of black ink marking her forearms.

‘An ill omen, she is,’ the princess thought, and her thoughts had the same low pitch as her voice these past few weeks. Already she was forgetting what she truly sounded like. Or perhaps she’d always sounded like this—gravel throated and weary. Perhaps this life was her truth now, and the other was nothing but a dream. A fairy tale.

If you liked that, you’ll love the rest of the anthology! Comment below for a chance to win a free copy!

THE GIVEAWAY and LINKS

Anyone who comments on any of these blog posts will be entered in a drawing for a paperback copy (in North America) or an ebook (elsewhere) of Witches, Princesses, and Women at Arms. Each blog you comment on gives you one more entry.

 Here’s the lineup of blog posts.

June 14th: Sacchi Green-“Trollwise” (plus the Introduction)

www.sacchi-green.blogspot.com

June 15th: Cara Patterson-“Steel”

www.sacchi-green.blogspot.com

June 16th: Michael M. Jones-“The Miller’s Daughter”

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June 19th: H.N. Janzen-“The Prize of the Willow”

www.sacchi-green.blogspot.com

June 20th: Annabeth Leong-“The Mark and the Caul”

http://annabethleong.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-mark-and-caul-origin-story.html

June 21st: Brey Willows-“Penthouse 31”

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 June 22nd: Salome Wilde-“The Princess’s Princess”

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 June 23nd: Emily L. Byrne-“Toads, Diamonds and the Occasional Pearl”

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 June 26th: A.D.R. Forte-“Warrior’s Choice”

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 June 27th: M. Birds-“Woodwitch”

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 June 28th: Madeleine Shade-“Robber Girl”

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 June 29th: Lea Daley-“The Sorceress of  Solisterre”

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June 30th: Allison Wonderland-“SWF Seeks FGM”

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Time Lord Fairytales

Stars: 5/5

SPOILER- FREE

Time Lord Fairy Tales is an anthology of 15 stories that feature plenty of familiar monsters, heroism, and of course the Doctor in various incarnations. It was released back in 2015, and I had the pleasure of reading it last year. 

I have the hardback version which features a gorgeous cover, and inside among the pages are beautiful and whimsical illustrations by David Wardle to go along with the stories. 

This is a fun and enchanting collection of familiar classic fairytale stories, cleverly twisted in pure Doctor Who sci-fi fashion. I thoroughly enjoyed reading these stories, and they make excellent bedtime reading for children as well as adults. They are whimsical, funny, and clever, and just scary enough to entice adults while still being suitable for children. Some stories feature the Doctor, some do not, and while I do have my favorites within the collection, I found every story to be enjoyable and well-written. Coupled with the gorgeous art, this anthology is a must-have for the Doctor Who fan of any age who loves twisted fairy tales, and even non-Doctor Who fan is bound to get some enjoyment out of this enchanting collection.

Time Lord Fairy Tales can be purchased in hardback for around $15, and in ebook version for around $10. 

There is also an audio version, available for close to $40, with the stories narrated by Tom Baker, Joanna Page, Adjoa Andoh, Ingrid Oliver, Anne Reid, Dan Starkey, Sophie Aldred, Rachael Stirling, Samuel Anderson, Nicholas Briggs, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Yasmin Paige, Michelle Gomez, Paul McGann and Andrew Brooke.

Time Lord Fairy Tales is also being re-released as a boxed collection with all the 15 individual stories bound separately into little books. This new collection also includes a new story- “The Emperor Dalek’s New Clothes”. 

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Alan Baxter

Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning British-Australian author who writes supernatural thrillers, dark fantasy, and urban horror. He rides a motorcycle and loves his dogs. He also teaches Kung Fu. He lives among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia, with his wife, son, and two crazy hounds.

He is the author of the dark fantasy thriller trilogy, Bound, Obsidian and Abduction (The Alex Caine Series) and the dark supernatural duology, RealmShift and MageSign (The Balance 1 and 2), the fantasy horror noir novel, Hidden City, the cosmic horror novella, The Book Club, and the supernatural noir novella, Manifest Recall.

His latest novel is Devouring Dark, an urban horror thriller. As well as novels, Alan has had around 80 short fiction publications in journals and anthologies in Australia, the US, the UK, France, Germany and Japan. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, and many others, and around thirty anthologies, including the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror on several occasions. His award-winning first collected volume of short fiction, Crow Shine, is out now. At times, Alan collaborates with US action/adventure bestselling author, David Wood. Together they have co-authored the horror novella, Dark Rite, action thrillers in The Jake Crowley Adventures, Blood Codex and Anubis Key, and the Sam Aston Investigations giant monster thrillers Primordial and Overlord. Alan has been a seven-time finalist in the Aurealis Awards, a six-time finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards and a seven-time finalist in the Ditmar Awards.

He won the 2014 Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story (“Shadows of the Lonely Dead”), the 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award For Long Fiction (“In Vaulted Halls Entombed”), and the 2016 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection (Crow Shine), and is a past winner of the AHWA Short Story Competition (“It’s Always the Children Who Suffer”). Read extracts from his novels and novellas, and find free short stories at his website – www.warriorscribe.com – or find him on Twitter @AlanBaxter and Facebook, and feel free to tell him what you think. About anything.

What are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life?

Probably the biggest influence on me is Clive Barker’s novel, The Great and Secret Show.

Two more would include:

Roald Dahl’s short stories (maybe Kiss, Kiss)

Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea

 What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)?     

I travel a lot, for conventions and so on, and that means I stay in hotels a lot. For some reason, so many hotels don’t have a power outlet by the bed. I recently bought a 3 metre charge cable for my phone and it changed my life!

 How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

As a writer, every failure is armour against future failure, which means we don’t quit. The default of a writer’s life is rejection, and you need those rejections to make you stronger so you keep going regardless. Then you get to enjoy occasional wins!

 Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by?

One of my favourite quotes is from Neil Gaiman, in Sandman volume 3, Dream Country: “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”

 What is one of the best investment in a writing resource you’ve ever made?

Time. Honestly, you can manage to write with pretty much any tools, even just a pen and paper, but time you have to make. You have to invest in the time required.

 What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?

I enjoy dancing with my dog. No, there will never be video. I’m pretty sure he enjoys it too.

 In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?

Remembering that working hard is important – you have to do the work above all else – but that taking time away from the work is also important.

 What advice would you give to a smart, driven aspiring author? What advice should they ignore?

They should ignore anything that doesn’t work for them. There are no hard and fast rules other than you must read a lot and you must write. Keep doing that, and the rest will come.

 What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession often?

The two I hate the most are “Write every day” – for many that’s impossible and it’s not essential, and also “Write what you know” – sure, you should write about stuff you know, but you should also strive to learn about other stuff and write that too. And make stuff up – this is fiction! – how many people really know about dragons or zombies?

 In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to (distractions, invitations, etc.)?

Pretty much everything! There was a time that I would say yes to everything, but I realised a lot of it had little or no value. So now I assess everything I’m asked to do and I’m much more selective about what I’ll take on. But I still try to do as much as possible.

 What marketing tactics should authors avoid?

Constantly yelling about their book on social media. You should be social and interesting and just be yourself on social media, then only mention your books when there’s something new or relevant about them. That’s organic and natural and people will stick around. Give them more than you take.

 What new realizations and/or approaches have helped you achieve your goals?

It’s not really new, but as I mentioned before, focussing on doing the work is what gets me to my goals. Sometimes I have to move from one project to another and back again, but the approach is always focus on the task at hand!

 When you feel overwhelmed or have lost your focus temporarily, what do you do?

I take time out. Rest and recharging is essential. I take the dog for a long walk, go for a ride on the motorbike, go watch a movie – anything that removes me from the work and lets my brain relax.

 Any other tips?

Don’t quit! It sounds trite, but it really is that simple. And always try to be better than you were before.

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[Free eBook] Revenant by Connie Bailey [LGBT Paranormal Romantic Suspense]

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Expecting another run-of-the-mill salvage job, Bo Andressen and his crew arrive at a crumbling castle in Wales and walk into a mystery of murder, hidden treasure, and greed with roots in the far past. In cooperating with the local law enforcement, Bo agrees to bring in a psychic, hoping to debunk rumors that the castle is haunted. However, paranormal liaison Tristan Lambert discovers that ghosts are only one suspected danger.

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Here’s a real love at first sight story: Amid a cacophony of dogs barking and lights flashing, our eyes met. Mine, lit multi-color by a string of Christmas lights, his brown and bulging and beseeching. He sat beneath a Christmas tree, like a present. It was fate. He came home a few days before Christmas, his name is Tank, and we’ve been together for almost seven Christmases now. Tank is a Chihuahua-Jack Russel mix who loves to bark and everything and has a chip on his shoulder bigger than he is. Which isn’t hard, because he weighs twelve pounds, but still. Tank was bound for a shelter before he came home with me.

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