Anthology

We Had Stars Once is a speculative fiction anthology. There are many amazing stories in it. One of them is a revised version of Derby Girls. The book can be found in hardback, paperback and ebook at these sites:

1889 Labs

Amazon: hardback, paperback, ebook 

Barnes & Noble: hardback, paperback, ebook

Google Play

Kobo

Goodreads

Facebook

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The Deceitful Drogon or Books We Probably Should Have Banned Ourselves From Writing

There comes a time in every writer’s life when they look back at the progress they’ve made, half-finished vampire epics with pretentious footnotes, old journals with dragons all over them, the handwritten notes (with Lisa Frank stickers in the margins) and think, my god, what a pile of crap!

The always charming Rejectionist has invited the author-friends to post their early (and extremely humiliating) works as part of the Banned Book Week festivities.

I have two extremely awful, please-don’t-really-read-these-because-they’re-quite-embarrassing, pieces to share. In the interest of historical accuracy all spelling and translation mistakes have been preserved, with bold emphasis added to the best bits.

Last Request

kimono walk, originally uploaded by Jenn Platt.

This week's story has to do with a bad dress and a promise.

Nothing at all to do with kimonos. Though I think my character would get more looks on the street than the girls in the picture.

An Uncertain Meeting

lighting in pink, originally uploaded by Jenn Platt.

This weeks story is a continuation from last week. This time we see Lily's club (where I imagine she has at least one of these pink chandeliers) and meet a zombie.

Brains, bouncers and unions ahead.

A Good Wallow

green light dusk, originally uploaded by Jenn Platt.

A vampire story at dusk! Could it be that I've finally matched a picture to a story? The story does take place at night and they are in a city. I call it close enough.

This story has vampires and werewolves and is a little jaunt for some characters I've been batting around for something more novel length. The second short with this group will go up next week. That one has the zombies.

Melodramatic vampires and heavy drinking ahead.

The Smell of Death

drain to nowhere, originally uploaded by Jenn Platt.

With skiing postponed everyone is wishing for snow. This is what we got instead.

I'm posting a story with a little snow in it. Maybe it will bring some luck.

After all, snow helps slow the bleeding when you're running for your life.