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SwampWitch

SwampWitch is my free (mostly) weekly newsletter. Every week I talk about my writing process, my publishing journey, and any news related to my books and short stories. Sometimes I also post short fiction.

As an added bonus, you'll be able to see what my Web 1.0 Website of the Week is—a nostalic adventure into the before times of guestbooks, site counters, and retina-scorching background images.

Come for the writer talk, stay for the retro web shenanigans and the serialised novel about retrofuture daemons. Also clowns (and sometimes cats).


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Tulissa spends her days weaving other people's dreams into exquisite shawls while keeping a close eye on the pretty Death's Guardian who works across the street. She thinks nothing in her life will ever change, but the arrival of a stranger with reckless, outlawed powers threatens to turn her once-comfortable world upside down.

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