Diary
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This coming Wednesday, October 17, we’ll have a new short story coming out as part of Torquere Press’ Halloween Sip line called “A Hundred Lonely Halloweens”. As with “Steam Heat”, the prompt limited us to 8000 words, so we had another challenge in keeping our plot manageable and yet reasonably fleshed out within the set…
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Our new short story, Steam Heat, is now available! It’s 7700 words and very spicy! At the Gaslight Bazaar, a Steampunk convention, Trey Lewis is teased and fascinated by glimpses of a man in leather pants. When he sets out to find the wearer, he discovers Joss Stephens, a quiet, reserved coworker from his computer…
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This weekend, we finished prepping the second short story we wrote for a specific call for submissions. This one had a limit of 12,000 words, which was a huge challenge. We decided to write a rough draft without obsessively checking the word count and pare down as needed when we were finished. As it turns…
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Between getting distracted by fanfiction and various real life busy-ness, it took well over a year for us to finish our first original manuscript. I think part of that delay was due to our reluctance to move away from the fandom comfort zone; we’d been writing fanfiction for so long that we had our niche…
Ari McKay & Rachel Langella 