Feeding the Muse • Living Well on a Writer’s Budget

Editor’s Note: This column was first published on 3/21/2018. With today being St. Patrick’s Day—or as we call it around here, The Day Before Corned Beef Briskets Go On Clearance Sale—this seemed a good time to resurface this one. Karen always wanted to reboot her “Feeding the Muse” series but that never got the chance. Here’s hoping you enjoy this one. Bon appetit!—Bruce...

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AWARDS NEWS! Congratulations, Henry Vogel and Barbara V. Evers!

We’ve just learned that Henry Vogel’s latest Rampant Loon Press novel, THE PRINCESS SCOUT, is a finalist for the 2025 Imadjinn Award for Best YA Novel, which will be presented at Imaginarium 2025 this coming July.We’re pretty pumped about this. Two years ago Henry’s previous novel, THE HOSTAGE IN HIDING, made a strong run for the Imadjinn Award, only to be beaten in the final...

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Status Update • 15 March 2025

I’ve been thinking a lot about inertia and entropy lately.This two-month hiatus wasn’t planned. While it’s tempting to blame it on the Never-ending Repair & Remodeling Project, that was only the inciting incident.Previously on Stupefying Stories: Last summer’s destructive hailstorm made major repairs to the house necessary, which subsequently mushroomed into The Remodeling...

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