New blog post: how to market yourself by building an author persona that's trustworthy, evocative, and doesn't make you want to crawl under your desk. wonderlandpress.com/how-to-marke...

Blind Date with Death ep 6! Logan, a.k.a. the Goob, on a nighttime run past some multi-million-dollar homes on a cool August night in the Colorado Rockies, with backstory flitting through the shadows. www.patreon.com/posts/150732...

New episode of the Homestuck/Herpetology of the Apocalypse channel. This week: Freud, Lovecraft, & recipe games. Come hang out with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=01fD...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, part 11: Punishment changes behavior, often on a level we're not fully aware of. Accountability is conscious measurement. Guess which one assholes favor. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Black and white thinking: it looks like it's about good and bad, right and wrong, us and them...but it's really about "asshole wins" versus "you lose." wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Who is NOT an asshole? People with a conscience--and apex predators, people with no morals but who take care of their own. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Witches and captains and boats stuck at harbour... Eerie tales of oceans and other bodies of water. HAUNTED WATERS, edited by Jamie Ferguson. Feature story by Steve Vernon. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN. Why assholes? Why do they even exist? wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN, Part 7: What IS an Asshole? A fucking bootlicker, that's what. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, p6: Micromanagement. Manipulation starts small. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

New BDwD section is live. Luxury hotels, sharp tongues, expensive food, and two so-called terrible people circling each other...and who don't know the difference between flirting and old trauma. www.patreon.com/posts/148892...

Asshole Mitigation Plan, P5. Fuck ICE. "Doing Enough" and Despair. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

Asshole Mitigation Plan P4. Cheap and Easy Fixes. Why don't we do 'em? wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

The Asshole Mitigation Plan: how to disenfuck your life from assholes. Not perfectly. But the parts you can observe, influence, and control. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

I have a story in this! With a sea shanty. Cursed artifacts. Haunted submarines. A lake that never gives back what it takes. Water remembers what the world forgets. Haunted Waters: fifteen tales that take you beneath the surface. books2read.com/h3-haunted-w...

I've got three of these up so I guess it's more than a brief experiment. THE ASSHOLE MITIGATION PLAN. wonderlandpress.com/asshole-miti...

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

New chamber larp published on my website! -- The Anatomy Lesson. "The year is 1632: the place, Amsterdam. Aris Kindt, a desperate violent criminal, mugs a passer-by in an attempt to steal their valuable cloak. Kindt is arrested, tried, and swiftly executed by hanging..." holkar.net

This is an incredible cookbook. I've given three copies as gifts, and one family called it "nearly transformative" for its ability to widen the range of foods their autistic child would eat, and for opening paths of consideration for *what* things their child found objectionable. Buy it.

Episode 4 of Blind Date with Death is live. Luxury-hotel glamour on the surface, claustrophobic service hallway paranoia behind the scenes. Spies, romance, and "I'll do anything as long as it isn't line dancing" vibes. www.patreon.com/posts/148329...

Episode 6 of Herpetology of the Apocalypse is up: The Great British Bakeoff Episode?!? Sorta. Pie-ing, Sumerian and Greek mythology, dead tech, Touch Detective, and BARRY HUGHART. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syW...

Generally: any area that you can filter (including social media) will be notionally 4x better by removing assholes.

Blind Date with Death — Ep 3 is up. Five days. One hotel. No emergency exits. Morticians + tech geeks under chandeliers, and that “one small favor” keeps getting bigger. (18+; still free.) Read here: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

Herpetology of the Apocalypse: THE QUEST TO FINISH HOMSTUCK! A gen-Zer and a gen-Xer duo looking up refs, doing casual lit analysis, cracking jokes, and posting some art along the way. Start here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iogc...

Five days. One luxury hotel. No emergency exits. Morticians + tech geeks + spies + secrets + one “tiny favor” that turns into a closed-door game nobody can afford to lose. Episodes every Friday (2–2.5k). 18+ contemporary romance + spies. Start here:

How I'm walking out of 2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. (I got these both at the same time and listened to them together; they're inseparable in my head.)

On the first day of Beastmas, @mwl.io gave to me... A dog's ghost speaking poetry.

How I'm showing up for the bsky xmas party.

Sometimes the animals you rescue...rescue you right back! Four-Legged Heroes by Kari Kilgore in the Wee Beasties Storybundle. Kari pushes further than I expect towards wonder, curiosity, and comfort. wonderlandpress.com/four-legged-...

Appalachian critter tales with teeth & tenderness. Over the Hills and Fur Away by Jason A. Adams - witty, playful, and subject to sly outbursts of human decency. Part of the Wee Beasties Storybundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/over-the-hil...

My short stories have been...not too short lately. My subconscious keeps adding things I didn't mean to add when I started. On structure, music, and underpinnings. wonderlandpress.com/story-struct...

Fantasy stories, O. Henry-style. The short stories in Lisa Silverthorn's Creature Comforts set up ironies that can't be cut by logic--only by warmth and a good-humored perspective. Part of the Wee Beasties Storybundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/creature-com...

Cute = camouflage. The small & clever stay one step ahead and do NOT ask for permission. Small creatures with big attitude: cats, dogs, mice, pixies, aliens, and more. Little Troublemakers by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, featured in the Wee Beasties Storybundle. wonderlandpress.com/little-troub...

Let your brain get drop-kicked into delight. Ten stories of the "wait, what???" genre by writer Dean Wesley Smith: My Socks Rolled Down and Nine Other Stories. In the Wee Beasties Storybundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/my-socks-rol...

Missing cat? Corgi detectives on the case! No stone shall remain unsniffed. Fun cozy mystery for an inclusive audience by T. Thorn Coyle. Available now in the Wee Beasties Storybundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/flower-frenz...

Keep your friends close but your halflings closer. Halfling Trouble by Stefon Mears—river-town docks, halfling gangs, elvish rivals, and one “simple” cargo run that lights the fuse. Now in the Wee Beasties Storybundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch: wonderlandpress.com/halfling-tro...

Thirteen doors into a different reality, all of them wiiiiiiide open. EGGS OF THE DOG THAT BIT YOU AND OTHER TAILS OF SHOCKING CRITTERS by Robert Jeschonek Now at the Wee Beasties Storybundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/eggs-of-the-...

Walking into 2026

Seeking companions of courage, wit, & loyalty to guard the dreams of a child. Must be able to cross blades with foes of every stripe, use sound judgment in the heat of battle, and purr as needed. (Via the Wee Beasties Storybundle). wonderlandpress.com/defenders-of...

Heartbreak, fresh start, an island on a lake...and a haunting that threatens to reveal forbidden secrets. Bones of Connection by Bonnie Elizabeth, now part of the Wee Beasties StoryBundle curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. wonderlandpress.com/bones-of-con...

Pulphouse stories = the moral equivalent of an Allstate Mayhem commercial. The ones where the guy in a suit causes all kinds of property damage. Now they get even weirder, at the Wee Beasties StoryBundle. (Giftable, Amazon-free, supports World Central Kitchen.) wonderlandpress.com/run-creature...

Baseball + the fae = trouble. HOME RUN ENCHANTED by Brigid Collins & Ron Collins. Underdog fairies + a human pitcher desperate to get home...versus the Unseelie Queen. wonderlandpress.com/home-run-enc...

Magical animal stories that are just a little sideways: mice, rabbits, a very determined cat, and a lot of heart. Annie Reed’s Unexpected Critters and the Wee Beasties StoryBundle on the blog today: wonderlandpress.com/unexpected-c...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

Size is a terrible metric for fierceness. Critters that fit in your pocket...not that they're going to stay there. Ditch Amazon, send a DRM-free gift bundle that'll work on any ereader or phone. 10% of proceeds go to World Central Kitchen—fighting actual an monster (hunger). storybundle.com/animals

The claws that catch, the jaws that bite! I'm part of a new StoryBundle, one that's full of wee beasties and things that go bump in the night! wonderlandpress.com/wee-beasties...

Why does indie publishing advice contradict itself?--One of my author friends was having issues with a bunch of conflicting advice in October and I gave her a quick snap answer, buuuuut of course I have more thoughts on the matter. wonderlandpress.com/why-indie-pu...

Annie and Dave are a double threat in romance shorts. Short stories, that is. Not, like, boxers. That would be weird.