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Editorial Backlog Released

I’m announcing a backlog of titles recently released thanks to a clear in the editorial manuscript queue. Previously, I had to obtain a co-author’s approval before making edits and sending them forward. Now, I’m moving forward temporarily without a co-author (whose medical career has progressively come front and center over the past year), so I’ve sole decision-making over what gets approved and…

A Catalog of Small Cruelties

A Catalog of Small Cruelties Another one of my novels came out of editorial backlog, and I’m so excited. She wakes from a coma grieving children who never existed. A coma gives Violet Holloway three dead children—and a reason to punish the living. Every victim has a secret. Violet has a catalog. There are some griefs so complete they begin to invent their own evidence. When twenty-eight-year-old…

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Echoes Along the Shore book release

The forests whisper, rivers bleed, and Superior keeps its echoes. Campers think they’re hunting a killer, but the wilderness hides more than storms. In the mist, one truth cuts clear: the danger is already among them. Some places keep secrets. This one keeps the dead. Echoes Along the Shore is a place-driven psychological thriller where the landscape exerts agency, truth emerges through pattern…

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Ghosted Buried Gone book release

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North of Ordinary: Short Stories That Live in the Quiet Between Things

A Midwestern atmospheric literary fiction collection rooted in place, season, and complicated lives Some towns don’t change. They just learn how to hide it better. In the northern Midwest, ordinary lives bend quietly, until they don’t. In the quiet towns and backroads of the northern Midwest, nothing stays buried forever. Set against apple orchards, corn mazes, gravel roads, and wind-cut…

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The Art of Liminality: Writing the Spaces Between Worlds

Photo by Beyza Kaplan on Pexels.com “Between waking and dream, girlhood and grief, there is a place that language almost reaches—and that’s where I write from.” Some stories do not belong entirely to one world.They hover in the threshold—that delicate, dangerous space between what we know and what we believe. The in-between has always been my country. It’s where I’ve found the most honest…

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The Myths We Inherit: Rewriting Ancestry Through Story

Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com “We do not write to remember what was lost.We write to remind the land that we are still listening.” Before I could name myself as a writer, I was a listener.I grew up in the hush between stories—in the cadence of my grandmother’s and auntie’s voices, in the pauses that carried more truth than the sentences. She spoke in fragments, half-remembered songs that…

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Writing From the Tremor: The Art of Surviving on the Page

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com When Healing Becomes Art: Writing Through Mental Health Before I ever wrote a word about healing, I was simply trying to survive.The blank page was the only space where the noise quieted—where I could make sense of panic, obsession, grief, and that endless hum of almost okay. What began as journaling at the edge of exhaustion slowly became its own language.…

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“Whimsy and Bliss” by Angela Grey

Shady Oak Press (2025)ISBN: 978-1961841468Reviewed by Stephanie Elizabeth Long for Reader Views (09/2025) Abigail Whimsy and Lainey Bliss have been best friends since the second grade. Like yin and yang, their opposites somehow fit together like errant puzzle pieces. Whimsy exists in a world of vibrant dreams and imagination, while Lainey is pragmatic and even-keeled, which anchors Abigail.…

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Of Laughter & Heartbreak book trailer

This is the summer of locked doors, fragile rituals, and the ghosts that keep count.I’m Stevie Matthews—almost sixteen, the kind of girl people whisper about. “Bat-shit crazy,” they say. Maybe they’re right. This summer, the order cracks. Obsessive thoughts tighten like barbed wire, rituals multiply, and the only way forward is a hospital stay I never asked for.Behind those doors, I meet…

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Indigenous Fiction

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Some Species of Outsider-ness

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The Cartography of First Love

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Whimsy and Bliss

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Dreamcatcher: A Hidden World Fairy Tale Fantasy

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Long Since Buried: A Dakota Killer Thriller

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Secret Whispers book trailer

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