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Best Women's Erotica of the Year, vol. 10 is out
Because I am drowning in end-of-year projects right now (mostly thanks to clients spending end-of-year budgets), I completely missed that...
Valerie
Dec 11, 20241 min read
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Publishers Weekly gave BWE 10 a nice review
Though it's not out until December, Best Women's Erotica of the Year got a flattering review from none other than Publishers Weekly....
Valerie
Oct 17, 20241 min read
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Mothers, Daughters, and Vampires
"The October Bed" is in Shirley this month! (Yes, that's an homage to the luminous Shirley Jackson.) I really don't know how to...
Valerie
May 23, 20231 min read
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Night Parents
When I was little, I was plagued by nightmares. Even after waking, I spent a lot of nights rigid with terror, convinced something evil...
Valerie
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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Next Door
I don't consider myself a wish-fulfillment writer but once in a blue moon, I'll realize I've written something that I want badly for...
Valerie
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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My old website died.
My website got eaten by an interdimensional portal and pretty much everything on it is gone. Including my backup! The feeling is oddly...
Valerie
May 21, 20221 min read
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Celebrate Friday the 13th with Carnival Macabre
Did you read Goblin Market in high school? I did and I was fascinated by the poem for reasons I didn't understand. It wasn't the lesbian...
Valerie
May 13, 20221 min read
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Read an excerpt from "Girls of Summer"
Transmundane has been highlighting excerpts from different stories in ON TIME - and right now, my story "Girls of Summer" is up. You can...
Valerie
Aug 15, 20211 min read
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On Time is out
How would an old person use the opportunity to be young again? It's a premise that shows up often enough in sci-fi shows and movies, but...
Valerie
Mar 2, 20211 min read
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Small Town Immortals is now a radio play
Manslaughter, failure, small town secrets, and necromancy: that sums up my story Small Town Immortals, originally published in LampLight....
Valerie
Jul 1, 20201 min read
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Beautiful, Orphaned, Gothic Estella
Did you read Charles Dickens' Great Expectations in ninth grade? Me too. I think I kind of liked it; but I can't say I was riveted by it,...
Valerie
Apr 30, 20201 min read
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Home for the Summer is .... home
"Home for the Summer" is one of my favorite stories I've ever written and I think it's because it's so morbid. On the one hand, it's the...
Valerie
Jan 15, 20201 min read
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Snow and the afterlife
What happens after you die? There are good and bad options for that answer but probably one of the worst is repetition - an afterlife...
Valerie
Nov 17, 20181 min read
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Small Town Immortals
It's always embarrassing when your creative psyche keeps serving up the same theme over and over. You think you're writing about war but...
Valerie
Sep 15, 20181 min read
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The Tourist
Just in time for Halloween, I'm in a new anthology of super short ghost stories. "The Tourist" is a tale of love that transcends death...
Valerie
Oct 7, 20171 min read
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"Alice" is out
My story "Alice" is in Cafe Irreal today. I never thought I would write a short, surreal take on Alice in Wonderland but I did and based...
Valerie
May 21, 20161 min read
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Deer Kingdom
I'm still surprised this story got published but it did. Dead children, forest gods, and Christmas, and then it gets really dark!...
Valerie
Dec 12, 20151 min read
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I'm in Dark Moon Digest
I wrote a rather horrific story about a serial killer art contest - and it's in the new issue of Dark Moon Digest. Print only this time....
Valerie
Nov 7, 20151 min read
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