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Tranquility’s Blaze is out!
Some things are more important than love, family, and even honor. Like duty. Pick up a copy of TRANQUILITY’S BLAZE today and follow Lady Champion Bethany as she makes the hardest decision of her life: killing her own sister. Available on Amazon today! Don’t have a Kindle but don’t want to wait for the other distributors to list it? Pick it up on Amazon and email me the receipt at kristadball@gmail.com. I’ll happily send you whatever format you’d...
read moreDo not talk down to me, asshole
WARNING: RANT AHEAD I tend to stay out of the privilege discussions that happen about the interwebz. There is a lot more to privilege than just race and gender, so I just let other folks argue that stuff out. However, I cannot deny that some men seem to not know how to have a disagreement with a female without: Ignoring her, and only paying attention to the menfolk in the discussion Tell her to move along Tell her to stop being offended and to get a sense of humour Make a disparaging comment about feminism A smilie face added to the end of...
read moreI must share this web comic with you!
Yale Stewart has developed the most amazing, heart-warming, hilarious comic I have ever seen: Little League. It follows the Justice League (Batman, Superman, etc)…in elementary school. My favourite moment? When Batman and Superman pretend they are Spiderman, just like nearly every little boy in the First World has done Go check it out. I promise you – even if you don’t know the lore of the Justice League, you will be able to follow it. I just love it. Start with the post at the bottom of THIS PAGE and just keep on reading,...
read moreWhat in my mailbox?
If you follow me on Twitter (and if you don’t, shame!), you’ll know that I’m going to Mexico next month. It’s my first beach vacation and I’m just tickled about the trip. But, since I plan to do little more than read a lot while I’m there, I’ve been stocking up on reading material. But, like any avid reader, I can’t actually wait so I’ve been diving in now! But this is what I’ve picked up (in theory) to read on the trip (which might get read sooner): First, I picked up a set of Kelly...
read moreCollaborator: Chapter 3b
New? You can find the Prologue timeline here! For details about the serial, including how to become a bad guy, click here! “Then what happened?” “We got our drinks and sat down.” She crossed her arms across her torso self-consciously; he was staring at her breasts instead of her face. That got his attention and he looked up with a barely-concealed scowl. “Then, those six stopped, took their overalls off and jumped.” Rebecca took a deep breath to calm herself before she puked again. She did not want to think about the blood. How...
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Whew! It’s been a busy couple of months for me. I still have a couple more busy ones ahead of me, but I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So the big stuff: Tranquility’s Blaze releases April 17th. I’m speechless. Just speechless. I wrote the book a long time ago. It’s been through a million revisions over the years, but finally I’m going to see it in print. I’m beside myself excited to share the adventures of Bethany and the Silver Knights with the world! I’ll be putting up...
read moreCollaborator: Chapter 3a
CHAPTER 3a New? You can find the Prologue timeline here! For details about the serial, including how to become a bad guy, click here! Alone, Rebecca sat inside the security office on an uncomfortable metal chair and waited for her name to be called. Zain had already given his statement and he’d stayed as long as he could – he was like that – but he had to eventually leave for his shift in the shuttle bay. “Saunt Marton Ree-bacca” a computerized voice said over the speaker, “please report to the...
read moreLovely review of “On the Labrador Shore, She Waits”
A really great review came in for the latest anthology I’m in, RIDE THE MOON. My short story, On The Labrador Shore, She Waits, is set on the Southern Coast of Labrador, 7500 years ago. The L’Anse Amour site fascinates me, as it represents a world foreign to any that I’ve studied. Why was this boy buried face down, with a large rock on him? What were they afraid the boy would do? Was he buried alive? Was the rock to keep his spirits from awaking? We have no answers for those questions. So, taking what I know of other...
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