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Pride

So I’ve been using this site as a pretty sporadic blog for a bit now, but there was a time several years back where I actually wrote regularly and this site was pretty much the hub for that. It’s about to swing that way again. I’ve struggled, as so many have, with the tumult of the last several years and what’s happened within them, and the result has been a substantial diminution of my creativity. This last week just about put me over the edge. But. That sort of means they win, right? If we all cover our heads and wail we’re not actively participating in the very type of world the malcontents are so terrified of. And I do like to terrorize them. So I got back to work, partly out of spite and partly out of curiosity to see if I still had anything in me to say. I dusted off about 10 stories in progress and made some choices.

Tonight, less than an hour before Pride fades for another year, I published my first piece of short fiction in about 5 years. It takes place several months after the events of Tessellations, another of my San Keros short pieces that slowly is introducing my city and cast to the world. Bomb(pop) is fun and flirty, sarcastic and unabashedly gay. Like, the gayest thing I’ve ever let eyes other than my own ever read…and it felt good. It’s a beach read of a short story, but it’s also a new beginning.

Expect to hear more from me, here on the blog as well as on Welcome to San Keros. Not every week, not even every month, but I’m finding my voice again and I’m not going to stay quiet anymore. So enjoy some summer sun with Bomb(pop), and I’ll see you again soon!

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Diamond Dust and Daffodils

Here we are in February already, and it’s already been a few months since the last update! The holidays were insanity as always, between baking and decorating and gifts and travelling, I hardly had a spare moment! If you follow me on Tumblr or Instagram, though, you saw brief snapshots of what happened. Not much writing, which is why this site lied fallow for the duration. For the month of January I was travelling and being wretchedly ill following that travelling. Also, Andy managed to catch a variation on the bug I fought and we had to deal with that as well.

I’ve managed to come out the other side, however, refreshed from the break and with some fun ideas for what’s to come. I’ve got a writing schedule set for the year to help reign in my procrastinatory impulses, and I’m working on some other hobbies as well.

As far as writing goes, I’ve got several projects running coterminously. I’m hopeful about what will finish first and head to Beta readers, but my writing tends to be feckful and I never know what I’ll sprint ahead on. The part you all care about, no doubt, is that there WILL be new stories this year. More set in San Keros, and other set in new worlds too. I also hope to revisit some of my Young Avengers fanfic worlds from the Young Avengers Reverse Big Bang from several years ago.

So for now, the “current project” tab remains Top Secret because even I don’t know what will release first–but I have a plan.

Stay tuned.

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Lemons (Tales from the Miracle Season 1.5) is now available!

It’s finally here!  Thank you so much for being so patient.  These last two Upshots have taken forever to come out, and I don’t have a convention as an excuse for this last one.  The truth is there were some story elements that needed some pretty serious alteration so that the next sequence will make sense, and it took longer than I thought.

“Lemons” is probably my favorite Upshot to date for a number of reasons.  Every single character in the story is new!to!you!, and you’ll be seeing all of them again very soon in the next two sequences!  It also lets you explore the Scarlet Letter, aka the Best Little Urban Fantasy Gastropub That Could.  The story is a bit shorter than most of the other Upshots, but it packs a surprising punch in the long term.  I guess you’ll have to trust me on that.

This is the last Upshot of this cycle.  A gentle reminder to you, dear readers, that all of these Upshots are presented in no particular order (with the exception of Coach/Coach Redux, which obviously happens simultaneously).  These shortest of short stories are just quick blinks into the present, past, and future of the Tales from the Miracle Season.  I’ll be doing weekly site updates over the next few weeks–WelcometoSanKeros.com needs a bit of an overhaul.  My next long-form Tale will be available the end of June, and I’ll post more about that soon.

For now, click on the image below, sit back, and enjoy.  I’m curious what you think of Howie and Gedrik.  Drop me a line here, on Goodreads, or anywhere (my social media links are on the site here).  There’s nothing I love more than talking to my readers.

The Miracle Season Will Return…June 2017

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Tessellations (Tales from the Miracle Season 1.4) is now available!

          So, I’ve been a bit of a bad author of late.  The boyfriend and I were off to C2E2, and the time it took to prep and decompress from that trip has delayed the very last of this first series of Upshots.  Also included in that delay, apparently, was the announcement here at LateNightStirFry that Tessellations (Tales from the Miracle Season 1.4) went online at WelcometoSanKeros.com two whole weeks ago! Holy Cow! See what I mean? Bad author, no biscuit.

          Several folks have asked what the throughput is for these Upshots.  The short answer is that there isn’t any.  They aren’t designed to be connected.  These shortest of short stories are just snapshots into the lives of people we’ve seen before, or meeting for the first time, that are affected by the ripples cast out by the events in Nabiscoding in the summer of 1991 (which you can read ALL about in Open Your Eyes.)  All I can say is that all of this will be more fully explored as this project continues.

The last Upshot of this cycle is called “Lemons”, and it brings the world of San Keros into proper sequence with the larger story that will unfold this summer.  That title should go up by midweek, and it’s my hope we’ll launch the summer project the first week of June.

The City of Dreams has opened its doors…now what’s left is up to you.

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Open Your Eyes: A Tale from the Miracle Season

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I’m proud to announce that my first web-based large scale fiction project has gone live! WelcomeToSanKeros.com is the online hub for Tales from the Miracle Season, an interlocking web of short stories, ficlets, novellas, and more.  The first story, Open Your Eyes, is a serial that will be updated weekly alongside biographical and geographical entries of the city of San Keros and its environs.  As you read, the city will open up before you, the website a living document that expands and fills in gaps between tales.  Open Your Eyes will be a story of 12 parts, with the next story in the cycle announced and commencing upon its completion.  I hope you’ll give this story a chance.  It’s my most personal story to date, and it sets the stage for everything that will follow.

You’ll continue to find all other written work–past and future–not affiliated with Tales from the Miracle Season here at latenightstirfry.com . The Season of the Story is now.

 

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The State of Things (I)

So welcome again to another status update.  Things are more or less on track to launch the new content upgrades and design by September 1st.  This means that The Miracle Season will finally begin in earnest over on Welcome to San Keros, as well as a few other fun updates here and on AO3.  I’ll have more info as to which pieces get released and when as we get a tad closer.

I’ve had a bit of a rough spring/summer, emotionally, but I’m feeling ready to really commit to this project in a way I haven’t previously.  My goal is for at least one update a week.  That update will be a piece of fiction.  Other updates will be more frequent.  As we meet new people and places in San Keros we’ll add them to the growing City Directory for easy reference.  By the time the first sequence of Miracle Season is concluded late this fall, you’ll be able to buy it as a complete story!  More on that as it develops.

Meanwhile, enjoy the last few days of Summer before the magic of fall begins, and I’ll see you in 14 days.

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Happy Birthday Update

Another year, another random blog post, right?  Well, in the spirit of the summer relaunch of latenightstirfry and the debut of new content from WelcometoSanKeros, I figured it was time to give a general life update so that anyone who’s curious can see the state of things.

On the home front, Andy and I celebrated our 18th anniversary and were allowed to serve two new feline overlords, Bailey and Keely.  I commissioned some gorgeous art at C2E2 this year, which I’ll do a separate post about.  It’s been a cocooning sort of year, really, as we’ve really dialed back our activity outside the house.  Some of our dear friends came to their senses and fled their S.A.D. and our presence by the space of a whole continent.  I’ve been slowly stripping down my comic pull list to just the characters and stories I’m genuinely passionate about.  I keep trying to organize my comics to determine what I’m ready to let go of, but I never complete the process.  I’ve been undergoing a small spiritual awakening too, which is welcome since its been too long.  We’ll see where that takes me.

As for writing, obviously there are things afoot.  My short story “Nothing Important Happened Today” got published in the Truth Beyond Paradox anthology.  This site is undergoing a major redesign this spring and early summer.  Later this summer I’ll be launching my major writing project in truth , but the web portal is already up at WelcometoSanKeros.com.  I have a few other smaller projects queued as well, and those will post here on latenightstirfry.  Some of those projects may end up referencing the World-a-Week Challenges I did a few years back and are still available here on the site.I also am going to be going pretty heavily into research mode, as a lot of the pieces are still missing certain crucial elements.

I’m hoping to go to HeroesCon this year, but also paint the garage.  I’d like to pay off credit cards, but redesign the front gardens. I plan on finally mastering the art of weeding without being scared off by arachnids.  I desperately need a new phone, and am hopeful for the opportunity to visit family and friends.  Which is to say, life goes on as it ever does.

I’m writing this as Owein sits purring on my chest, thinner than he’s ever been.  There’s not much that it seems we can do about it.  I’m deliberately not writing much more about that because I don’t think my heart can take it.  I need to hit the gym and lose some pounds, myself.  I wish we could share them somehow.

So that’s the sort of state of things.  If you feel like giving me an awesome birthday present, snag a copy of Truth Beyond Paradox (Only $3.99 digital!) and give my story a glorious review on Goodreads!  Word of mouth is everything.

And be Excellent to each other–and to yourselves.