Booklovers, it’s a great chance to stock up with the Smashwords End of Year Sale
If you have a to-read list of independent and small press authors, or if you’re browsing for reading material to tide you over the last few weeks of the year, there are great opportunities for deals and quick gifts on the ebook website Smashwords. Tens of thousands of books in all genres are discounted between 25% and 100%, or even entirely free! The sale runs until January 1, so don’t let the time slip by. (In fact, on the authors’ side of things, we recently learned...
Read More“Ghostwitch”: two thousand words of terror
This an update I actually should have shared over a month ago, but time got away from me. By which I mean, I misremembered “Ghostwitch’s” publication date in the online Two Thousand Word Terrors anthology as August instead of July, and I also have spent the summer in a fugue of work — editing, of course, and some writing, but also preparing for the 2023 Sustainability Fair in Waukesha County. If you’re in Southeast Wisconsin and looking for a fun and informative,...
Read MoreNew Story Collections: Heroes, Apocalypse, Loyalty and Betrayal
Embarrassment is a poor motivation for writing, so I won’t be ashamed about how little readers have seen of me over the past few years. I haven’t been wasting my time – I’ve edited dozens of amazing novels, helped to plan two Waukesha County Sustainability Fairs, and found out this online dating thing might be all it’s cracked up to be (even if it means off-line interactions require an hour-long drive. I’m taking audiobook recommendations, by the way!). All...
Read MoreAqua Vitae
Jenes Inarya wants to live to experience everything, and it just might be possible. Her quest for immortality leads her through myth and legend to the farthest reaches of the galaxy (well, so the Jericho magazine article said, although it’s prone to exaggeration). And it’s only the beginning. The rest of a very long life is about to start–but Jenes doesn’t yet know how to live it. “Aqua Vitae is only 70-pages long, but manages to pack a lot…part...
Read MoreShort Stories: A Dark and Wonderful History
Dark fantasy stories based in the same secondary world, centered around women. “The Gallows Wife,” Semaphore Magazine & 2009 anthology, reprinted in Shadows Within Shadows. Find it at: Amazon Alibris Barnes and Noble Better World Books “The Loving and Keeping of Wolves,” WolfSongs 2 EPPIE Winner Best Anthology of 2011 Find it at: Amazon Powell’s Kobo Barnes and Noble Better World Books “How the Woman Brought Death,” All About Eve Find it...
Read MoreShort Stories: Across the Curse-Strewn World
Stories featuring Aniver, a wizard of the city Nurathaipolis-that-was, now lost to rogue time, and Semira, the sailor who joins his quest to save it. “The Storms in Arisbat,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #110 (available on Kindle) Recommended review from Lois Tilton, Locus Online “For Lost Time,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #165 (available on Kindle) “The Grace of Turning Back,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #179 (available on Kindle) Other stories in this setting:...
Read MoreShort Stories: Heart’s Kindred
The adventures of Rathin and Anweth, a wandering couple equipped with sword and sorcery. “Every Mother’s Child” in Fantastique Unfettered Issue #2 Find it at: Barnes and Noble Amazon.com Alibris “An Honorable Aunt” in Silver Blade #18 “Through the Father Range” in Outposts of Beyond #4 “Eisiden’s Sister” in Fictionvale Episode 4 Other stories in this setting: “Of the Generation” in Roar and Thunder magazine; reprinted...
Read MoreShort Stories: Xeocin Empire
“The Halcyon in Flight,” Crossed Genres “The Twilight People,” originally in Tower of Light magazine “Goddess of Ashes,” originally in Tower of Light magazine, reprinted in the Tough as Nails anthology Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Alibris “The Sorceress of Avalo,” originally in Byzarium magazine, reprinted in Sorcerous Signals “In the Mirror,” originally in Silver Blade, reprinted in the Lorelei Signal. “Ameran...
Read MoreShort Stories: Science Fiction Stories
“John Kosichev” in Storyteller Magazine, Vol 1, No 2 “http://amzn.to/2ra5H4mArnheim’s World” in Analog Magazine, May 2015 “Drown or Die” in The Future Fire and TFF-X: Ten Years of The Future Fire “To the Altar” in Warrior Wisewoman 3 Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Powell’s Alibris Better World Books Reprinted in Andromeda’s Children “Reila’s Machine” in M-BRANE Science Fiction’s anthology Things...
Read MoreShort Stories: Fantasy Stories, Secondary World
“Of the Generation” in Roar and Thunder magazine; reprinted in Different Dragons II from WolfSinger Publications; also reprinted in the Heroic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Publishing “Lord Shashensa” in Sword and Sorceress XXIV (with a shorter version reprinted by Nevermet Press in Stories in the Ether) Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Alibris Powell’s Better World Books “The Void Test,” originally in MindFlights magazine, reprinted with audio at Cast...
Read MoreAbout Therese
Therese Arkenberg's first short story was accepted for publication on January 2, 2008, and her second acceptance came a few hours later. Since then they haven't always been in such a rush, yet her work appears in places like Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and the anthology Sword & Sorceress XXIV. Aqua Vitae, her science fiction novella, was released by WolfSinger Publications in December 2011.
She works as a freelance editor and writer in Wisconsin, where she returned after a brief but unforgettable time in Washington, D.C. When she isn't reading, writing, or editing (it's true!) she serves on the board of the Plowshare Center of Waukesha, which works for social, economic, and environmental justice.