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Category Archives: Stories
The Worth of Felines – Published in AHMM
TweetWhile story acceptance day is every author’s favorite (we like to get paid after all), story publication day is just as important. One of my Magistrate Ovid stories, The Worth of Felines, is now appearing in the May/June issue of … Continue reading →
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Tagged ahmm, alexandrian saga, EQMM, fires of alexandria, magistrate ovid, Thomas K Carpenter
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New Release — City of Sorcery (The Hundred Halls #5)
TweetThe end of schooling can be both a blessing and a curse. Of course, you want to finish, but when you do, you’re left feeling like you’re losing something important. I know when I finished college had to move into … Continue reading →
Posted in Stories, The Writer's Life, Writing / Publishing
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Tagged alchemy of souls, amazon, aurie, aurie and pi, city of sorcery, coming of age, contemporary fantasy, gathering of shadows, magic school, series, silverthorne, the hundred halls, Thomas K Carpenter, trials of magic, University, urban fantasy, web of lies
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New Release — Gathering of Shadows (The Hundred Halls #4)
TweetAfter a long wait, book four of the Hundred Halls, Gathering of Shadows, is now available! Every fall the city of Invictus bustles with new students, and the classrooms reek of spent faez. This year it’s true of every hall … Continue reading →
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Tagged alchemy of souls, amazon, aurie, ebooks, gathering of shadows, hundred halls, invictus, new release, pi, silverthorne, the hundred halls, Thomas K Carpenter, trials of magic, web of lies
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StoryBundle – Light in the Dark YA Bundle
TweetOver my career, I’ve written in many genres but Young Adult is my favorite. It’s also my favorite to read going all the way back to The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Some of my favorites are The Uglies Trilogy and … Continue reading →
Posted in Stories, The Writer's Life, Writing / Publishing
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Tagged anthea sharp, darcy pattison, david h. henderickson, deb logan, Fiction River, Gamers Trilogy, hunger games, jody lynn nye, john biggs, Kris Rusch, kristrine grayson, melissa mcshane, mytro, Scott Westerfield, Spark, storybundle, Thomas K Carpenter, uglies
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The SF&F Binge Reader Bundle
TweetThe Digital Sea Bundle is one of ten collections in the SF&F Binge Reader Bundle on StoryBundle. This is a crazy good deal as you’ll get 19 novels and countless short stories, but it’s only available for a few weeks, … Continue reading →
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Tagged anthea sharp, blaze ward, books, bundles, Dean Wesley Smith, Fiction River, jamie ferguson, Kathryn Kristine Rusch, kristine grayson, mindy klasky, SF&F, storybundle, the digital sea
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Escape to New Worlds
TweetWe all need a break from the daily grind of work, family, and politics. The Escapist Bundle on Storybundle has arrived just in time to satisfy that need! There’s a wealth of great fiction in a variety of genres from … Continue reading →
Posted in Random Musings, Stories, Writing / Publishing
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Tagged Allyson Longueire, Annie Reed, Cat Rambo, Dayle A. Dermatis, Dean Wesley Smith, Escapist Bundle, Fiction River, Jason Chen, John Helfers, Kelly Washington, Kristine Kathr, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lisa Silverthorne, Rebecca Senese, Revolutionary Magic, SMART, storybundle, Thomas K Carpenter
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Awards Eligibility Post
TweetAhhh…Winter. When the air tries to freeze your face off and writers must contort their way through the dance of offering up their fiction for award consideration without seeming too needy. Like a grass-stuffed lemming, I must follow the herd … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abyss & Apex, awards, Campbell Award, Galaxy's Edge, Hugo, Nebula, Nebulas, Thomas K Carpenter, trials of magic
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Indie Publishing: 2,119 Days and Counting…
TweetDecember 19th, 2010. That was when I published my first book, The Digital Sea. I’d shopped the novel around to agents and editors, receiving lovely rejections along the way, before deciding to jump into the indie pub revolution with both … Continue reading →
Trials of Magic (The Hundred Halls #1)
TweetFor you readers longing for something in the same realm as Harry Potter or The Magicians, I bring you Trials of Magic, the first book in the Hundred Halls series. There are exactly one hundred halls of magic to choose … Continue reading →
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Tagged harry potter, new adult, new release, the hundred halls, the magicians, trials of magic, young adult
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The Year in Review – 2015
TweetThe first thing I need to do is this: THANK YOU READERS!!! via GIPHY I really can’t say enough how amazing this year was for me and it’s all because of you. It’s really strange to sit in a room … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2015, amazon, andy weir, avengers, dashkova memoirs, EQMM, ernest cline, ex machina, fires of alexandria, fury road, Game of Thrones, jessica jones, John Scalzi, kai ashante wilson, ken liu, mad max, orphan black, pitch perfect 2, Puscifer, ready player one, robert delong, sense8, Silversun Pickups, Star Wars, steven wilson, the martian, Thomas K Carpenter, vikings, war on drugs, Women of the Apocalypse
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