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Fractured Rune is out today.

It’s out.

Fractured Rune is officially available today.
Queer epic fantasy.
A trans protagonist.
Angry gods, found family, big magic, bigger feelings.

I’m equal parts excited, terrified, and vibrating through the floor.

https://www.amazon.com/Fractured-Rune-Aeldstorm-Saga-Book-eb...

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Did I break google?

Did I Break Google? Apparently My Book Is Now Fractured Prune

So today I searched my own book title like a normal, well-adjusted author who definitely does not Google herself for validation.

I typed Fractured Rune.

Google paused. Reflected. Consulted the ancient spirits of autocorrect.

And then gently asked, “Did you mean: fractured prune?”

I appreciate Google’s concern for digestive regularity, but this is a queer epic fantasy, not a cautionary tale about fiber intake.

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Looking for a story

MC is a married cross-dresser. The wife tolerates the cross-dressing and works for a company that has other been bought by a British company or they recently hired a female British CEO. The CEO throws a company party in the style of the British fancy dress parties with a turn-about theme. wife tells MC his dream is about to come true that she would go someplace with him dressed.

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Hard to believe

I've been running BigCloset for more than 26 years. I've lost loved ones and found new ones. I've made friends here and elsewhere. I've written novels, stories, essays, poems and songs. I've published books.

And you all have been here with me to share this space that we have created together, a friendly place to read, write and discuss TG fiction...and other things that interest us.

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The Completely Boring Reason I Revamped My Character Art

So. The character art on my website changed.

No, you’re not imagining it.
No, your browser did not glitch.
Yes, this was intentional.

Originally, the character art for The Aeldstorm Saga was commissioned. That was the right call at the time. I needed art, I wanted art, and commissioning artists is good and cool actually. The art did its job.

But then I ran headfirst into a very unsexy reality.

I did not own the copyright.

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Hidden Assets

There is plenty of precedent for hidden facilities - some of them quite large - even in famous pieces of architecture:

https://www.oddee.com/item_99554.aspx

So far, no-one has given me grief over superhero bases in my Masks stories. This should head off anyone doing so. :-)

The Vatican is famous not only for concealed nooks and crannies, but walkways high above ground.

Anyway, Happy Holidays to all!

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Need some help finding a story.

I'd appreciate some help finding a story. Unfortunately, I can remember very little about it. When it starts the MC's sister is moving away to start college. She leaves in a vehicle with her parents, following in a (truck?) As they are traveling through (Atlanta?), they are involved in an accident. The MC is following them on APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System). They appear to remain in the same position for an extended period of time.

This is as much as I can dredge up from my memory. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me find the author/name of the story.

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Cyber-bullying

Using comments or PMs to attack someone personally on this platform can lead to outright banning from the site. If someone writes a story you don't like, that is not a license to attack them on moral grounds.

If you receive such a bullying message, please bring it to my attention. If you have sent such a missive, consider this a warning. We have very few rules here, and the main one is still, "Keep it friendly."

Hugs,
Erin

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Apologies for my clumsiness

Hello all.

I just posted several chapters to my novel, Ethan's World not realizing that it's considered bad form to post more than two per day. Apologies for that. I got kinda carried away--it's fifty chapters, completed, and I was kinda sorta eager. I've enjoyed so many great stories here and wanted to contribute. I didn't mean to abuse y'all's generosity.

Again, my apologies and thank you for maintaining a great place to read and post our particular kinds of stories.

d.

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I debated posting this (because minor spoilers for GEM)

Pretentious "I'm a writer!" blog post. Sorry, not sorry ;)

So, "As a writer" (See, I told you! lol) I draw inspiration from everywhere, my own experiences, others' experiences, other works of fiction and non fiction, and sometimes - okay, a lot of the time - I'm just making it up as I go along just like the rest of us. But I have never experienced this before, where something I wrote actually perfectly mirrors someone's real lived experience, right down to using the exact same words to describe it, AFTER I had already written it.

I've got cold chills.

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The Short Story

After sending a message to Suzi in relation to my vignette posted last week, I wondered if blog readers might be interested in what I wrote on the Message Board over on Fictionmania in relation to what a writer proposed would be shorter fiction of 7500 words - a body swap story (MFC main female character becomes male and MMC female)? This is what I wrote:

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Reviews

An honest review or two on any of our books on Kindle/Amazon or other sites would probably increase visibility a lot. This applies to all DopplerPress, AlephTwo and Azimuth books, which help support this site. If you've read one of our books, please consider leaving an honest review. :)

Thank you,
Erin

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Interactive Table of Contents question

My latest offering features an interactive Table of Contents. The body of the story is preceded by a column of jump-links that allows the reader to jump to a particular chapter. I've pretty much decided that on longer works (in my mind that means >20K words) that rather than posting as a serial I'll provide this kind of means for the reader to read part of the story, leave and come back later and be able to jump to where they left off.

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New story up

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I wrote this story some time ago. Until now it was only available as an eBook from online retailers.

It was inspired by a very real protest in 2017. It was chronicled by instinctmagazine.com in their story titled: “Boys in Skirts Beat the Heat—and the System” and featured this photo.
Protest in skirts

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My apologies again

I guess at this point I sound like a broken record player. But again I owe my readership an apologie. As many of you know I've stopped posting chapters or even updating stories. I'm not going to ask your forgiveness. And at this point I feel I've lost what readership I have, not that I blame you guys. Anyway, around the middle part of October my mother passed away, she passed away in front of me, it shook me, it tossed me into a tail spin. I have seen death before, I'm a country girl, I've hunted and fished all my life.

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Getting older ....

... But not growing up?

In a few hours my age switches from 59 to 60 but that's just a number!

As many will know, I have a new Tammy story out on Kindle and I will start serialising Flying High in January. I have also started writing the follow up story.

Anyway, I am having a day out on my birthday with a girlfriend in Norwich. Pictures will be on my socials.

Shiraz

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Book Progress and Thanks

Before anything else, Happy Thanksgiving!!

Yes, it's a day early to post such - but I'll likely not have time tomorrow, what with all the usual family craziness and the spouse's 'Second Thanksgiving' we do on the following Friday for various friends who don't have close family to celebrate with on the actual day.

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My Playlist... My Muse for the next chapter...

Hey everyone,

When you first sit down with a new idea in your head, what do you lean on to get started? For some people, it might be a mood, a memory, or even a single image. For some people, it could be something visual, like something they saw in real life, maybe a movie, or even something they heard.  I am curious what others use as that first spark when they begin turning an idea into an actual story.

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End of year sale

Hi!

I’m excited to announce that all my books will be promoted on @Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale 2025 starting on December 8! Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #EoYSale25 #Smashwords

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Happy reading!

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Wondering About A Book

I'm wondering about a story that's about a boy who wanted to be a girl but stopped for a while because they forgot about it until his/her sister asked them to go out with her Boyfriend's cousin Everything that he Girl, was about daydreaming

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Opinions wanted!

I'd really like to hear what people thought of Mobius.

Splitting it into parts to post is a double edged sword. Some people don't read a multipart story until it's complete, and I have to admit, I don't always, either. Especially when the writer has a track record of not finishing all of her stories. Of which I'm guilty. Lol.

Thee other side, at least in my case is it makes it where people are able to comment on things while they are fresh in their mind, rather than reading a single file and commenting on what is left at the forefront of the mind.

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Where I’m At, Now That the Story Is Out There... Complete

Honestly, thank you to everyone who read the story. If you commented, sent me a DM, an email, or even just followed along quietly, please know I really appreciate it. The encouragement, excitement, and thoughtful feedback you’ve shared have meant a lot to me, and I’m grateful you chose to spend your time reading this story.

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Life is busy and fun

It's been a while since I've shared any stories. I've been involved in a lot of things and had trouble blocking out time to work on my writing. But I do have one story close to completion that I'll get out soon.

Some of that activity is described with the song I wrote and posted today, "Your Love is Kind".

I've also been writing lessons for a Sunday School series I'm helping to teach with a long time friend of mine about responding to Christian Nationalism.

That has at least gotten me to develop a habit of hitting the computer for extended sessions of writing.

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