Hello! Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander month! Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! Happy Mother's Day! And happy whatever else I'm forgetting about! This month in writing life, things are looking up! I've had a prose poem accepted for publication. It will likely be available for viewing online in August. My weird-length, who-knows-what genre novelette has also found a home. I cannot express how happy I am not to have to go back to the revising block for that one. Fingers crossed for the good news to keep rolling in. In home life, the stitches are out and Leon's ear hematoma has been resolved, hopefully for good. Despite the moody look on his face, he is very happy to be out of the cone of shame and is back to being his normal, food-stealing, hell-raising self. Thanks again for subscribing. See below for further updates, recommendations, and promotions. |
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News My first short story collection will be out in fall of 2025. Woo! | | |
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Hey, look! I finally got rid of that 0% acceptance rate. |
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| | Read A beautiful design, a fantastically eerie title, and some of the best words in the English language (dark, fiction) right there on the cover. Also featuring some fav authors of mine (Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger). This collection contained some thought-provoking and disturbing stories and stuck with me well into the night. | | |
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| | Watch Who doesn't love a zombie apocalypse where (plot twist!) the real danger is uninfected people. (Plus Pedro and Bella are amazing.) | | |
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| | Listen In the ablum's own words: "Genres are a funny little concept, aren't they?" I love how Beyoncé keeps playing with them. | | |
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| | Play I can throw two lightsabers, zip them between enemies, and then zoom them back into my hands like boomerangs. Need I say more? | | |
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Hobby CornerThe garden is underway for real! The chard and carrot seedlings have emerged (and will need thinning soon; one of my least favorite garden tasks). The tomatoes and peppers will go in the ground as soon as New England stops wildly vacillating between summer and winter. And there's even a surprise strawberry plant that somehow survived last fall's culling. |
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Freebies, Promotions, & Giveaways Orbit Loot - Enter for a chance to win a book bundle in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month! Featuring novels by Vaishnavi Patel, Fonda Lee, and others. Good Intentions - part of the Amazon Original Stories series. Seven unforgettable stories of motherly love. Audio narration included. Free with Amazon Prime. Author Talk - Ted Chiang and Karen Russell are in conversation with Everdeen Mason, The Washington Post's audience editor and author of a monthly column on new science fiction and fantasy.
Mental Health America Store - Shop and support mental health. |
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Let's Chat How's it going? What's giving you life this month? How did you like the newsletter? What kind of content would you like to see here? Write back and let me know! |
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Carla E. Dash lives in Braintree, MA with her husband, children, and cats. She teaches middle schoolers, procrastinates via video games and anime, and occasionally buckles down and writes. | | |
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