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Point of View: Adrift

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And the river flowsI am never gonna get it back againAnd the river flowsI am never gonna take it back again… “Take Me Back”, by Erasure Sometimes a song speaks to you in an unexpected way, and the music unlocks something you’ve been feeling for a long time, but couldn’t quite name. Our world is in a state of flux, where everything we thought we knew is being questioned, threatened, and overturned. Most of us just want to go back to the way things used to be, when we were standing on what we thought was solid ground. As I … Read more

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Author Spotlight: John A. McColley

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: John A. McColley writes from his cave in the woods of New England. He’s a full member of the SFWA and NE Horror Writers. He’s published over sixty short stories with many publishers, from Black Hare Press to Mad Scientist Journal, Crossed Genres to Whortleberry Press in magazines, anthologies and on websites. He also serializes sci-fi and fantasy novels on Patreon. His urban fantasy slash supernatural horror novella, “Down The Drain,” came … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Forty-Five

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Sam takes Oscar back to the place where he and Brad got married… < Read Chapter 43 Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Forty-FourThe Monk’s Half Sleeves “So this is the place, huh?” Oscar didn’t look … Read more

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Point of View: Something We Can Do!

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Something a little different today, For the last few months, I’ve felt as if I was trapped in a never-ending vortex of horrible news, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I have felt depressed, dejected and powerless, as I’m sure many of you have too. Then ever so slowly, things have started to shift. More people standing together and fighting back. And there have been glimmering signs of hope. Then a few days ago, this landed in my email inbox, from my friend Luis at the Sacramento LGBT Center: “On March 24, the federal government abruptly … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Vonnie Winslow Crist

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Vonnie Winslow Crist is author of Beneath Raven’s Wing, Dragon Rain, The Enchanted Dagger, Owl Light, The Greener Forest, the “Shivers, Scares” series, and other award-winning books. Her writing appears in Asimov’s Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weirdbook: Witches, Chilling Ghost Short Stories, Cirsova, Black Infinity, Faerie Magazine, and elsewhere. Over 1,000 of her illustrations have been published in books and magazines. Believing the world is still filled with miracles, mystery, and magic, she … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Forty-Four

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Diego takes a walk down memory lane and thinks about all he missed when Gio was growing up in Italy… < Read Chapter 43 | Read Chapter 45 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Forty-FourImages … Read more

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Point of View: Putting On a Book Festival

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About a year ago, I was asked to participate in a local book festival. It was a trial “pop-up” event – twelve booths attached to an existing farmer’s market. There were about twenty authors there, and although it was never really busy, we all sold a decent number of books. It was clear that there was a hunger for this kind of event here in Sacramento. Flash forward to today. We’re a month-and-a-half out from launching our second annual Sacramento Book Festival on May 31st, and this one’s gonna be way bigger – 140 authors, bookstores, local writing and literacy … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Jon McGoran

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Jon McGoran is the author of eleven novels for adults and young adults, including his latest science fiction thriller, The Price of Everything, coming April 2025 from Solaris Books. His other books include the YA science fiction thrillers Spliced,Splintered, and Spiked and the science thrillers Drift, Deadout, and Dust Up. He has also written numerous short stories, including “Bad Debt,” which won an honorable mention in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Forty-Three

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Gio wakes up for the first time in Italy, and gets a gift and some unexpected company for his Italian foodie tour… < Read Chapter 42 | Read Chapter 44 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. … Read more

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Point of View: What a Real Man Is

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This week a new word popped into my awareness, one that’s probably been circulating for a while, and one that comes from a worldview that has become almost omnipresent in its injection into our daily lives. See, it’s the straight white men who are oppressed. Women, gays, democrats and trans folk have been telling them for far too long that they can’t just be men and do manly things, like oppressing women, gays, democrats and trans folk. It’s really unfair. And now the combination of our hyper-masculine co-presidents, the crypto bros, the Andrew Tates of the world and all the … Read more