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April 4, 2015! Write it on your calendar! Add it to your scheduler. Tell your assistant to put it on the Googamaphone! April 4 is the official release date for Nightingale, Book One of the The League Cycle! I’ll have more announcements soon as the date draws closer. There are […]

Nightingale Release Date Announced!

2 Mar, 2015 in Nightingale / The League Cycle tagged fiction / Nightingale / The League / The League Cycle / The League Cycle Book One by Anthony Karcz

Flash Fiction Challenge: Runner 2

13 Feb, 2015 in Fiction / Writing tagged Chuck Wendig / fiction / Flash Fiction Challenge / Ragnar by Anthony Karcz

I was excited as hell when I rolled Kaiju and Bio-Punk as my mashup for this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge: The SubGenre Blender over at terribleminds. Only problem was, I spent the next half a day completely stonewalled because there were too many directions for me to take! Then, on […]

Flash Fiction Challenge: What Rough Beast

5 Feb, 2015 in Fiction / Writing tagged fiction / Flash Fiction Challenge / Godzilla / Kaiju / Tank Girl by Anthony Karcz

Something a little different this week for the Terrible Minds Flash Fiction challenge. The challenge Must Contain Three Things gave me public drunkenness, poison, and a box of photographs. So rather than try to weave that into something genre laden, I decided to go with a realistic story of murder and betrayal […]

Flash Fiction Challenge: Murder by Numbers (1, 2…)

30 Jan, 2015 in Fiction / Writing tagged Chuck Wendig / fiction / Flash Fiction Challenge / Murder / Terrible Minds by Anthony Karcz

So we’ve got fantasy again this week for the Terrible Minds Flash Fiction challenge. But, really, how could I not answer the call and throw down some dark, messy fantasy when I rolled a 19 and a 6 for It’s X Meets Y!: “It’s like Game of Thrones meets Scooby Doo!” I’ve […]

Flash Fiction Challenge: The Collectors

23 Jan, 2015 in Fiction / Writing tagged Chuck Wendig / fiction / Flash Fiction Challenge / Game of Thrones / Scooby Doo by Anthony Karcz

Over on the incorrigible Chuck Wendig’s blog, Terrible Minds, he posts a regular feature, the Flash Fiction Challenge. It’s a great way to ditch the anchors of continuity and plot, get out on the highway, and just open the engine wide. And, being Wendig, the prompts themselves are usually a […]

Flash Fiction Challenge: Born Again

16 Jan, 2015 in Fiction / Writing tagged Chuck Wendig / D&D / Dragonborn / Dragons / Dragotha / Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy / fiction / Flash Fiction Challenge / Write Club by Anthony Karcz

Slightly off word count tonight; but I’m OK wrapping up the day with this: “No matter. He had the raw material he needed.It was time to remake the world.” I started the day off this morning with a ridiculously costumed villain that came to me in the wee hours of […]