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Lies, Damn Lies, and…More Lies
I’ve started a new document on my computer called Rants. You’ll read the fruits of that here. I know the world is full of horrible bad news everywhere you look, so this isn’t something I want to dwell on. I write because I need to process my feelings about the world and my little life […]
Tenacity Is Now Available
Just a quick update that Tenacity is now available for purchase at these outlets: Amazon Apple store Barnes & Noble Bedazzled Ink Kobo Vivlio Others will be updated as they go live. If you are in Massachusetts, look for it in your library’s network. Or request it. Bookstores, too, can carry it. Just ask! More […]
Tenacity Sneak Peek
Tenacity launches on June 4. You can preorder now on Amazon or, you know, wait and I’ll have links to other retailers like Bookshop.org, where, to be honest, I buy my print books that I can’t get locally. Tenacity is a sequel to Endurance. I’d like to think it stands alone, but just in case, […]
What’s in a Name?
Naming my last book Endurance was easy. I had been inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure (misadventure) aboard his own Endurance. I even made the story time match the length of time he and his crew were stranded. I decided, however, not to destroy the ship. Honestly, his real story was so improbable that I […]
“I’m Somebody Now!”
I’ve been sitting on some news. I haven’t posted in a long time because I’ve been busy. You see, last fall I finished the sequel to Endurance. I sent it off to my publisher—you might have heard their squeals of joy. I signed the contract before they’d finished reading it, which made me very nervous. […]
Free Story for Halloween
For the heck of it, here’s a freebie. It’s also in my collection, A Perfect Life and Other Stories. A Certain Moon Ann dusted shelves that were already dust-free, plumped previously plumped pillows, and ignored the disdainful look her cat gave her. She checked the clock for the fifth time in the last ten minutes. […]
Five Years in the Woods: an Update
What a year this has been, nature-wise. Also otherwise, but I’ll stick to what I know for sure, my home. Recently someone visited the post I wrote back in August 2018. That was the first year I lived out here in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts. While five years is not a significant dataset, this […]
Endurance Is a Winner!
In my first draft I buried the “lede,” so I’ll get it right out there: Endurance won a very nice Science Fiction/Fantasy award from the Golden Crown Literary Society. It comes with a very nice cash prize, too. I am, of course, thrilled. Endurance was also a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice award, […]
Thoughts on Pride Month
Yesterday I posted the first free story I’ll be giving away weekly during June, Pride month (it’s only up for a week, so if you don’t see it, sorry but you’ll have to buy my collection, A Perfect Life and Other Stories). I wrote “Auto Repair” years after same-sex marriage became legal, but the story […]
Elaine Burnes 