An interview with Kathryn Kaleigh about her time travel romance "Last Stop: Yesterday," which is in the ESCAPE FROM 2026 bundle! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ka...

The last interview for the 2026 Write Stuff bundle is with Jamie Ferguson, about her book "Bundle Up! A Practical Guide to Anthologies and Box Sets That Sell." blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ja...

An interview with Jason Chen, the founder of StoryBundle! There are only a few days left to get the 2026 Write Stuff bundle, which contains fifteen EXCLUSIVE books on writing and publishing. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ja...

An interview with Tracy Cooper-Posey about her book "The Indie Author Survival Guide: How to Stay Profitable, Productive, and Sane in a Tougher Market." Tracy's book appears in the 2026 Write Stuff StoryBundle, which ends this week—get your copy now! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-tr...

An interview with Douglas Smith about his book "Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story," which is in the 2026 Write Stuff StoryBundle! Doug's delves into story structure: how to build scenes, sequence them, choose points of view, and handle transitions. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-do...

J. Daniel Sawyer's book "The Pitch-Perfect Author: Voice Mastery for Writer" talks about how makes the difference between a good writer and a great one—and how you can sharpen your own voice. Check out his interview! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-j-...

T. Thorn Coyle's book "Let Your Life Be Lightning" is an exclusive only available in the 2026 Write Stuff bundle. Check out the interview with Thorn! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-t-...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch curated the 2026 Write Stuff bundle, which contains 15 exclusive books you can't find anywhere else—including her own book The Write Attitude. It’s a book about the attitudes writers need to survive and thrive. Check out the interview! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-kr...

Dean Wesley Smith's book Writing Novels with the Waltese Falcon is in the 2026 Write Stuff StoryBundle! Dean talks about writing one novel in 10 days, another in 7, and another in 5 days—while traveling! Check out the interview with Dean: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-de...

Ron Collins' book On Being (And Becoming Again!) A Writer is in the 2026 Write Stuff bundle, which is available for a limited time. In this interview Ron talks about how he's learned to see writing for the gift it is. 💝 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ro...

An interview with Darcy Pattison on Picture Books: Write and Publish, which is in the 2026 Write Stuff bundle. All fifteen books in this year’s bundle are exclusive to the bundle, so you literally can’t find this collection anywhere else! 🌟 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-da...

When a research crew descends into the abyss to explore the wreck of the long-lost USS Hollander, they awaken more than echoes of the past. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-th...

In “Whispers of the Drowned,” Charles Eugene Anderson gives voice to the ghosts history tries to forget—melding wartime dread and mythic retribution in a story where the sea itself becomes a keeper of memory. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-wh...

When a neighbor mysteriously dies, Delilah is dragged into a supernatural whodunit involving kelpies, curses, and the restless dead. Even in the strangest town in the Mournful Mountains, family is forever—and love may be the most powerful spell of all. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-a-...

In “Above Us, Hell,” Alicia Cay plunges readers beneath the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, where greed, ghosts, and the wreckage of war rise together from the deep. Check out the interview with Alicia! blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ab...

In “Final Walkthrough,” Lou Berger brings the ghosts home—a dark inheritance steeped in Southern soil, where love poisons as easily as it redeems. Check out the interview with Lou! 👻 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-fi...

When an intelligence officer and her crew recover a mysterious artifact, they awaken something older and far more dangerous than the war around them. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-wh...

When bone witch Nariah Boyd is called to a half-drowned parking lot at the city’s edge, she uncovers something ancient and furious: a crocodile spirit who built her own altar from bones and grief. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

Once, Dideacea ruled a sacred spring, revered by warriors and poets alike. Now she walks unseen through a world that no longer remembers her name. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-a-...

An interview with Kari Kilgore about her story "Saving Unquiet Creek," a tale where land and lineage speak with voices that ripple like water. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-sa...

As the pirate ship Defiler prowls the seas in 1750, one crewman awakens something ancient and forgotten in the wood beneath his feet. blackbirdpublishing.com/spotlight-ay...

An interview with Meyari McFarland, author of "Echoes of a Forgotten Day." 🌊👻 blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ec...

In Lou J. Berger’s “Final Walkthrough,” inheritance isn’t just a legal matter—it’s a haunting, and the dead have terms of their own. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

When the sea goes still and the sails hang limp, only one woman in Weird Water Harbour can sell you a wind—and she’ll take more than your coin in return. An interview with Steve Vernon, author of "The Wind Witch of Weird Water Harbour." 🌬️ blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

Treasure hunter Owen Moore and his grandfather find a World War II submarine risen from the Cayman Trench—only to unleash the restless spirits trapped inside. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

In *The Ocean is My Wife*, DeAnna Knippling conjures an immortal sea-epic of gods, ghosts, and sailors bound to the deep—a ballad of love, rebellion, and the eternal pull of the tide. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

Some hauntings aren't curses. They’re consequences. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

The wreck of the USS Hollander lies three miles beneath the Atlantic. When a recovery crew finds it, they also find someone onboard is sending an SOS...even though the submarine sunk over 40 years before. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

The sea is vast and unforgiving, and those who sail it need to trust each other. Break that trust, and the ocean itself becomes your judge. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

Nine-year-old Tommy knows the voice isn't coming from inside his head. It's coming from the kitchen sink—from something ancient and hungry hiding in the garbage disposal, something that's been waiting for a long, long time. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-dr...

When the sea goes still and the sails hang limp, only one woman in Weird Water Harbour can sell you the wind—and she’ll take more than your coin in return. blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

In "A Dismal Death," Debbie Mumford blends wit, warmth, and ghostly mystery as a seer, her stubborn ancestor, and a dashing sheriff uncover murder and magic in a town where the dead won't rest. blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-a-...

P. D. Cacek explores the haunting bond between writer and story in “To Everything There is a Season.” In our interview, she shares how fiction becomes legacy—and why letting go is its own kind of magic. Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-to... #blackbirdpublishing #hauntedplaces

A ghost on the ice. A girl who won’t be fooled. James Pyles’ “Haunting Chloe” is a quiet, eerie winter tale about grief, boundaries, and a haunting that wants more than friendship. ⛸️ Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #ghoststory #hauntedplaces

DeAnna Knippling’s “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave” turns a haunted escape room into a site of personal reckoning. Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #storyspotlight #hauntedplaces #ghoststory #speculativefiction #techhorror #amreading

In “Zero Proof”, Erik Kort crafts a furious, tender ghost story rooted in queer community and chosen family. In this interview, they share how haunting becomes healing. ✨ Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-ze... #blackbirdpublishing #hauntedplaces #ghoststory #amreading

Alicia Cay’s “Blue Bride” is a gothic ghost story of vengeance, grief, and the chilling truths we uncover when it's almost too late. ❄️ Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #storyspotlight #ghoststory #hauntedplaces #gothichorror #amreading

Deb Logan’s “That Lake House Summer” is a warm, gently spooky coming-of-age ghost story about creativity, connection, and one life-changing summer. 🌊 Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #storyspotlight #ghoststory #hauntedplaces #speculativefiction

In our interview with Alexandra J. Brandt, she shares the folklore, grief, and heart that shaped her lyrical ghost story “They Stole My Love Last Night” from Haunted Places. 🌿 Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th... #blackbirdpublishing #ghoststory #folklore #hauntedplaces

In “River of Renewal”, Kari Kilgore delivers a quiet, lyrical ghost story of healing in the cold mountain wilderness. Soft hauntings, sacred silence, and a ghost horse that changes everything. 🌲 Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #storyspotlight

Alicia Cay’s “Blue Bride” is a gothic ghost story of grief, revenge, and the secrets families try to bury. 👻❄️ Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-bl...

Meyari McFarland’s “Scents Drifting on a Breeze” is a warm, slyly funny sapphic ghost story about love, legacy, and a haunted funerary vase with matchmaking tendencies. 🌸 Read the spotlight + excerpt: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #ghoststory #hauntedplaces

DeAnna Knippling’s story “When You Can Walk Away But You Can’t Leave” is part workplace horror, part tech-haunt, and all confrontation. 🧠👻 Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-st... #blackbirdpublishing #authorinterview #hauntedplaces #speculativefiction #ghoststory #amreading

Some ghosts don’t linger out of sorrow—they stay for love. “Dance Hall Days” by Jamie Ferguson is a nostalgic, heartwarming ghost story of friendship, music, and one last mission from the other side. Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #hauntedplaces

A family vacation. A lake house. A ghost in the cupboard. Deb Logan’s “That Lake House Summer” is a reflective, gently spooky coming-of-age tale about love, family, and what lingers in places we thought we knew. Read the interview with Deb: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

In “Whispers of the Whistle Stop” by Charles Eugene Anderson, a presidential hopeful must reckon with the past aboard the Liberty Express. Read the spotlight on the blog: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli... #blackbirdpublishing #storyspotlight #ghoststory #hauntedplaces #speculativefiction

Haunted houses don’t scare Sydney. Not anymore. In “The Only Thing Left”, Shannon Lawrence explores fury, loss, and the kind of haunting that has nothing to do with ghosts—and everything to do with what we refuse to surrender. Check out Shannon's interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-th...

Alexandra J. Brandt’s “They Stole My Love Last Night” is a lyrical, bittersweet tale set on the misty Isle of Skye. With fairy music and hidden gardens, this story lingers like a song half-remembered. 🎻 Read the spotlight: blackbirdpublishing.com/story-spotli...

A frozen lake. A lonely girl. A ghost boy who won't let go. In James Pyles' "Haunting Chloe", a winter vacation turns sinister when the ice refuses to stay still—and neither does the past. Read the interview: blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-st... #blackbirdpublishing #ghoststory #hauntedplaces