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Wulf Moon’s upcoming debut in DEEP MAGIC!

Order your copy from Amazon by clicking HERE!

I am happy to announce I have a historical fantasy story appearing in the Fall issue of the beautiful and wondrous DEEP MAGIC magazine. “Weep No More for the Willow” is the tale of the captain of a Spanish galleon facing off with gods, demigods, and a mermaid! If you like high seas adventure with foreboding omens, supernatural creatures, life or death stakes, and a twist on mermaid tales, you’ve come to the right place!  Add a dash of romance, a sprinkle of revenge, and you have the perfect recipe for a dish best served…wet.  Hey, the story takes place on the water, what do you expect?

Come sail away as I debut my award-winning tales of the Spanish captain Capricho on the pages of DEEP MAGIC. I have been writing Capricho’s stories for twenty-five years, first in live online performances, and now on the pages of professional anthologies and magazines! My tales of Capricho’s young adventures have appeared and continue to appear in Third Flatiron Publishing’s anthologies. In fact, two thousand readers from around the world voted in Critters Readers’ Choice Awards and chose “War Dog”–a young Capricho story–as the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018! Well, I think Capricho fans will be even more excited with this tale–he’s older and wiser, and he’s got himself a boat!

You have my permission to come aboard. Preorder from Amazon by clicking here, or you can click on the cover image above. I trust you’ll enjoy this story when it releases from the dock on September 10th, 2019.  Do check out the other fine authors included in this issue. It’s a special sailing with all hands on deck!

⚔⚔LINE-UP REVEAL⚔⚔

Deep Magic’s Fall 2019 Issue line-up is:

“Pile of Bones”, by NYT bestselling author, Michael J. Sullivan

“Treaty’s Imposter”, by Marjorie King

“Forget-Me-Nots for the Potter’s Field”, by Wendy Nikel

“Weep No More for the Willow”, by Wulf Moon

“Experiments with Time”, by Jeremy Essex

*Plus* bonus stories from the board members:

Jeff Wheeler, Charlie N. Holmberg, Brendon Taylor, Dan Hilton, Steve Yeager & Kristin J. Dawson

Extended sample chapters for novels:

“The Lady in the Coppergate Tower”, by Nancy Campbell Allen

“The Redwood Palace”, by MK Hutchins

Cover art by: Martina Fackova

 

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HERE BE DRAGONS!

When you look at the tattered edges of old nautical charts, often you’ll find a wicked sea serpent threading through the water. There is even a medieval globe with the inscription: HERE BE DRAGONS. It probably didn’t mean the explorers had run across dragons (although I’d like to think so); it meant they hadn’t explored that location and if you decided to travel there, you would do so at your own risk. You were navigating uncharted waters.

Much of writing is exactly that. No two writers’ journeys are the same because we all have unique circumstances and we are all singularly unique individuals. You can read and study what others did to find their course across the vast oceans of writing and publishing, but in the end, you have to chart your own path, catch the wind in your sails, put your hand to the tiller, and guide your ship to the destination that’s right for you. It’s your journey. You haven’t traversed these waters before. There will be perils. There will be dragons. But if you hold fast and fight to the last, there can also be rich rewards….

So opens my article on the dragons that writers face–especially this writer–while navigating the high seas of writing and publishing. The article appears on the Writers of the Future homepage. Click the link to read my story, a story designed to help you conquer your own dragons and to fortify you to NEVER GIVE UP!

Click Here for article and podcast and a Hollywood video interview!

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Watch The Recording of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards!

After twenty-five years of trying, I had finally won and had made it to the Writers and Illustrators of the Future gala award ceremony.  It’s an impressive event that many liken to the Academy Awards of science fiction and fantasy. If you ever attend one or if you watch the recording, you’ll understand why. This is a formal black-tie event in the best of Hollywood venues with bestselling authors and Hollywood stars on the guest list. And they are all there to support you as an up-and-coming writer of speculative fiction. This was the proudest moment of my writing career. It happened April 5th, 2019 at the Grand Ballroom of the Taglyan Complex in the center of Hollywood.

Want to see Wulf Moon take the stage, receive his award for Writers of the Future Volume 35, and give his acceptance speech? Then click on the link below and advance to one hour and nine minutes and take a gander! Come join me for my five minutes of fame! (Thank goodness I still have ten minutes to go!)

Watch the 35th Annual Achievement Awards for the release of “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 35” with the top new writers and illustrators in the world and presented by some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy.