Happy Thanksgiving to my American squiders! I drew you a Landsquid in celebration. I haven’t gotten to do much drawing lately and this blog has been decidedly low on Landsquid.
I hope everyone has a lovely holiday without too much family drama and with plenty of mashed potatoes, which are, of course, the best of all Thanksgiving food.
Anyway, the WriYe blog prompt for November is: Shout out another writer!
I did have to think about this for a minute, since I do know so many lovely writers, but in the end I decided to do my fellow Turtleduck Press writers: KD Sarge, Siri Paulson, and Erin Zarro. TDP launched in 2010 and we’d been working on it for a few years before that, so we’ve been together and creating stories for probably about 15 years.
KD writes science fiction, fantasy, and some ghost stories. Her latest is May the Best Ghost Win, about dueling ghost hunting teams, but my favorite of hers is Even the Score, which is a scifi mystery and the third book in her Dream’verse series. Her website is kdsarge.com.
Siri, too, writes across the speculative genres, often lyrical stories that are much prettier than I can ever manage. We, of course, wrote City of Hope and Ruin together, which was a great experience. Her latest is Voice of the Sea, a post-apocalyptic retelling of the Little Mermaid. Her instagram is here.
(Also, if you liked City of Hope and Ruin and want more Fractured World content, I have a short story here, Siri has one here, and TDP also has the prequel Love Shines Through anthology, which Siri and I both have stories in.)
Erin writes romantic fantasy primarily, though also some science fiction and horror. Her latest is Bound, which was originally published in the TDP anthology To Rule the Stars (about space princesses). Aside from fiction, Erin is also an accomplished poet, and her Without Wings chapbook is one of the best I’ve ever read, about the darker side of love. Her website is here.
TDP has been very good to me over the years, helping me stay productive and stretch my writing skills, and I owe it all to these wonderful writers. So shout out to them for being awesome writers and awesome writing friends!
See you next week, squiders! Don’t eat too much!
