Flash Fiction Friday #6 All summer, I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. In today’s, I play with the “holy beheading” tale. (This is possibly a bit esoteric these day, but they were all the rage in the middle ages!) The Wise Man and the Wisent Inspired by Mike Kenyon, who suggested…
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Flash Fiction Friday: The Wise Man and the Wisent
Written on July 31, 2015 by janineso in Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, flash fiction, Kickstarter, microfiction summer
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Flash Fiction Friday: Seattle Freeze-Frame
Flash Fiction Friday #5 All summer, I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. Today’s is a contemporary piece set in my home city of Seattle. Seattle Freeze-Frame Inspired by Mark Hirschman, who suggested “camera, 5 p.m., matte silver.” Richard had no friends. He had a lovely craftsman triplex in Seattle, where he…
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Flash Fiction Friday: Spaceships Aren’t Compostable
Written on July 17, 2015 by janineso in Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, flash fiction, microfiction summer
Flash Fiction Friday #4 All summer, I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. Today I’ve chosen a contemporary, humorous piece since Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story is on sale today and tomorrow for 99c. It seemed like a good match. (I’ve also chosen it because today is the compost pick-up day at my house.) …
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Flash Fiction Friday: Peal and Ring
Written on July 10, 2015 by janineso in Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, flash fiction, microfiction summer
Flash Fiction Friday #3 All summer, I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. This one is my copy editor’s favorite. Peal and Ring For Gretchen. Inspired by Bob Bauman, who suggested “church bells, 3:23 p.m., turquoise.” Marie was in love with the boy who rang the church bells. She’d never met him,…
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Flash Fiction Friday: Operation Orange Chicken Casserole
Written on July 3, 2015 by janineso in Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, flash fiction, microfiction summer
Flash Fiction Friday #2 All summer, I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. Click to read last week’s (“Werewolf Friendly Hair Straighteners Are Hard To Find”). Operation: Orange Chicken Casserole Inspired by Jayson Potter, who suggested “plant, 1:30, orange.” Let me tell you about Operation: Orange Chicken Casserole. This was back when…
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Flash Fiction Friday: Werewolf-Friendly Hair Straighteners Are Hard To Find
Written on June 26, 2015 by janineso in Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, flash fiction, microfiction summer
Flash Fiction Friday #1 For the next 9-10 weeks, you can read free fiction right here on this website. I’ll be posting a flash story every Friday. These pieces are inspired by Kickstarter backers for the Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story project. Their ideas are awesome, so I want to share them with you. This…
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Weekend Schedule – Anglicon 2015
My schedule is packed this weekend. There will be panels, there will be workshops, and I will be sitting in the Anglicon dealers’ room hoping that someone will want to discuss the divergence of Teen Wolf and Wolfblood. If you’ll be around, please come see me. We can chat about all the awesome stuff. Plus,…
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Call for Submissions: Magic iPhone Stories
iPhones are magic. That’s probably why I published a book with a magic iPhone earlier this year. (If you follow this blog, you’ve read all about Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story.) It’s been doing so well that I’ve decided to put together an anthology of other people’s stories involving magical iPhones. Yay! If you want…
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Have Someone Read a Book to You
Reading! If you live in Seattle or Portland (or are visiting during the first week of May), you can come see me read from Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story. I’ll be joined by two other PacNW genre authors, Cat Rambo and Fonda Lee. Cat Rambo also edits my Hive Queen Saga novels, which makes her…
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Book Launch Party – Feb 6 in Seattle, WA
Have you ever been to a book launch party? Well, I’ve never held one, but since I’ve got this lovely new book that just came out, I thought now would be the time to try. Here are the details: Who: You! And also me… the award-winning, Seattle-based author of this excessively-geeky, Seattle-based book. What: The…
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