Let’s have some big(-ish) news!

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I’ve spent the past few weeks working out an ending to the Hopeful Wanderer web series. By ending, I mean a very cool ending that reveals all the little things I’ve teased about who the Wanderer is, where they come from, and where they’re going. There’ll be ten final super secret installments that won’t go up on the blog and will appear only in the collection.

Oh yeah. There’s going to be a collection.

I’ve picked the best 90 stories from the web series and will add the final ten to the end for 100 Wanderer stories that you can read with breakfast, to your kids, as a personal bedtime story, or whatever! I don’t make the rules—do what you want! The 90 stories from the blog are getting the updating and revising and expanding treatment as we speak; I’ve already written all ten of the super secret stories.

I am so excited to share this with you.

Thanks for reading!

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Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women

Read my eco-horror short “Well Being” in this fabulous new anthology, in which a mother follows strange impulses from tainted water to find her daughter.

From Mary Shelley to Tananarive Due and Mariana Enríquez, women have long shaped horror—often without equal recognition. Living closest to the genre’s edge, women know these fears firsthand: lost autonomy, violence, childbirth, survival.

Set in Texas, a land of haunted histories and increasingly restrictive laws, Beneath the Bluebonnets emerges from the raw intersection of terror and endurance. Written by twelve Texas women writers: R. J. Joseph, Lauren Oertel, L.H. Phillips, Kathleen Kent, Madison Estes, Jess Hagemann, Emma E. Murray, Jae Mazer, Iphigenia Strangeworth, Jacklyn Baker, S.G. Baker and edited by Carmen Gray, this collection is urgent, unflinching, and deeply haunting—stories that refuse to look away.