Elizabeth Coldwell on “Stumbling into the Day of the Dead” 

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I spent my childhood moving from country to country and currently live in a neighborhood where I regularly overhear conversations in half a dozen languages, so I always enjoy reading about people’s experiences learning about new cultures. As part of the Myths, Moons, and Mayhem blog tour, author Elizabeth Caldwell stopped by the Alpha Book Club to talk about encountering Mexico’s Day of the Dead for the first time in her home country across the Atlantic. …Read more

Excerpt from Morgan Elektra’s “The Endless Knot” on Janine Ashbless’s Blue Mondays

Janine Ashbless invited Myths, Moons, and Mayhem back to her blog for Blue Monday this week. She featured an excerpt from Morgan Elektra’s “The Endless Knot,” the passionate story of a vampire and werewolf who couldn’t keep their fiery relationship from burning itself to the ground. One Halloween night in New Orleans, a human named Beau shows them how to rekindle it to a steady flame.

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Elizabeth Coldwell on casting love spells

Last week, Kitten Wylde had Myths, Moons, and Mayhem contributor Elizabeth Coldwell on her blog to talk about love spells, which feature prominently in Elizabeth’s story for the anthology, “Be Careful What You Wish For.” Read on for a snippet of the story that illustrates one step in her fictional love spell.
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The Books in the Nook gives Myths, Moons, and Mayhem four stars!

Myths, Moons, and Mayhem has earned another four-star review, this one from multigenre author CM Peters at The Books in the Nook. She writes, “The stories have evidently been picked thoroughly and put together to form unity; I went from one story to the other hungry for more. And boy did I get more.” …Read more

Janine Ashbless, Blue Mondays, and an excerpt from “The Cave”

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Janine Ashbless invited me to her blog this week to share from Myths, Moons, and Mayhem as part of her Blue Monday series, which showcases erotic excerpt from new releases across the gender and  sexuality spectrum. I sent her one thousand words from my story “The Cave,” about a photographer and magic practitioner who’s documenting a paleontological expedition in Madagascar—and regularly losing sleep to the sounds of the gay couple in the next tent getting it on. Here’s a taste: …Read more

Little Mermaid, touring Mormon temples, and other fun things: my interview with J. Scott Coatsworth

I was a guest on sci-fi/fantasy author J. Scott Coatsworth’s blog yesterday. Check it out to discover which translation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid soundtrack is my favorite, what my very first piece of fiction was about, how being a reporter helped me as a fiction writer, and things I’m working on now. It also features an excerpt from “The Cave,” my story in Myths, Moons, and Mayhem. …Read more