As a writer, I reserve the right to live in imaginary worlds, encourage a belief in magic, and never grow up.
Hi everyone and welcome back to Claerie’s Tales. I have some really big news to share with you guys this week, which is... *drumroll please* I will be attending my first ever writing conference this weekend, September 21 and 22nd 2018! I can’t even begin to explain to you all how excited I am for… Continue reading Big News!
Happy September everyone and welcome back to Claerie’s Tales! Today is Monday, September 3, Labor Day for those in the United States. In honor of that, I’m going to talk about some things I learned while working away on a retelling of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves for a fractured fairytale anthology coming out… Continue reading Top Tips When Writing for an Anthology
In the spirit of back-to-school, check out this post from The Nerdy Book Club! This seems like a list that should be written by Captain Obvious, right? Of course students should read whole books from beginning to end! But does that really happen at your school? Or does the workroom copier groan under the load… Continue reading Top Ten Reasons Students Should Read More Whole Books and Fewer Passages and Packets by Cari White — Nerdy Book Club
Hi everyone! I just wanted to come on here and give you guys a quick update because I know my blogging schedule has not been up to it's usual standards. There are three main reasons for that. I was published! An extended (and cleaner version of my short story "Prom Panic" was published in the… Continue reading Update!
Please welcome author Bokerah Brumley! Intro: What’s your name, what do you write, where can readers find you on social media? And just for fun, if you could be any mythological being, what or who would you be? My name is Bokerah Brumley. I am a speculative fiction—all sorts of science fiction and fantasy. Though, I… Continue reading Author Interview: Bokerah Brumley
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Check out my friend Katie’s post about what’s going on in our writing group!
Today is what we call Workshop Wednesdays in my writing group on Facebook, Writers of Queer Fiction. I created this group along with fellow authors Claerie Kavanaugh and Amy Nowacoski.
We made this group after coming together in a Beta Reader’s group on Facebook, discussing how it was difficult to find an active group for LGBT+ writers or writers who write with LGBT+ characters and themes. Now, of course, there are lots of amazing writers groups on facebook! I am in quite a few of them, and utilize them all! But, sometimes you need to ask serious questions about representation, sensitivity, or, dare I say it, sex–and you don’t want to be mocked by Joe Schmoe in that group with 50k+ members in it.
That is where Writers of Queer Fiction comes in! We offer a safe place to ask these questions. We are a group for writers
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