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Must. Resist. Having. Favorites.…Anna Karenina Isn't Dead

Anna Karenina Isn't Dead

Must. Resist. Having. Favorites.…Anna Karenina Isn't Dead

By Atlin Merrick Okay, this is a tricksy blog entry because I'm going to: * Ask the writers of our most recent anthology, Anna Karenina Isn't Dead to do a thing I'm not willing to do; * But only after I a little bit do the thing I just said I'm not willing to do. And that thing is play favorites with our recent anthology Anna Karenina Isn't Dead. Not Really But a Little Bit Kind Of First I disclaimer all over everything: obviously all of the stories in the anthology are my favorites because these thirty-two tales were selected from...

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Holiday sale — 30% off nearly all Improbable books!

Holiday sale — 30% off nearly all Improbable books!

From November 1 through November 21, 2023 for the holiday of your choice, nearly all Improbable Press books are 30% off print and ebook. Meantime our brand new fandom book Spark: How Fanfiction and Fandom Can Set Your Creativity On Fire is still 20% off, extended until Nov 21! We gotcher Sherlock Holmes books, eerie-creepy-cool books, we have modern supernatural/near future, and LGBT+ romance — some books are multiples of these, click through to find out more. Sherlock • Eerie-Creepy-Cool • Modern Supernatural/Near Future LGBT+ Romance • eBook only sale                    ...

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Growing Tales (Scales)

Ali Coyle

Growing Tales (Scales)

By Ali Coyle The three stories that made it to the final version of Chrysalides have been in my head for a long time, rubbing shoulders and occasionally swapping pieces of themselves with all the other stories that live up there. I have never been able simply to sit down and write a story. I need to think it out first, daydream it, tune out whatever is going on around me and imagine my characters occupying their universe in a myriad different ways. I write it all down, big chunks at a time, when their lives are spilling out of my...

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Sneak Peek: Chrysalides by Ali Coyle

Ali Coyle Chrysalides Sneak Peek

Sneak Peek: Chrysalides by Ali Coyle

"That's all very well," Lydia said with an exasperated sigh. "But I really wanted someone with their own transport. What if there was an emergency?" As the words left Lydia's lips, a roar blossomed outside and cut off suddenly. Tuli scrambled upstairs to look out the window. Below, a petite figure stood on the gravel drive beside a dirt bike, took off a scuffed red helmet and shook out long, black hair before twisting her tresses up again in a scarf. Tuli almost squealed. "Is that her? I like this one, mum. Mum? Mum!" "She's on a motorbike! Tuli, you...

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"I met Arthur Conan Doyle…"

"I met Arthur Conan Doyle…"

By Yvonne Knop I met Arthur Conan Doyle for a casual and comfortable lunch in the Oscar Wilde Tea Room of the famous Café Royale. He looked exactly as I imagined him to look, a stout man with a mustache. I knew the moment had come where I had to explain that I had used his famous character Sherlock Holmes for one of my novels – without asking for permission or paying any royalties. "I read your book," he said in an almost unimpressed voice. I sat down and looked at the cup in front of me, already filled with...

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