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#SaturdayStoryTime—The Perils of Online Dating
(Beth Turnage Blog) I am more than the sum of my parts! Interview with social media influencer, interior artist, and creator of ARIA™ ASMR—Re Sult Insects trilled and chirped a white wall of noise at 10,000 Hz. Under the bed where Re lay to capture the full effect of the ASMR, languid waters of…
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#AmWriting—Let’s Tell a Story #SaturdayStorytime
(Beth Turnage Blog) Years ago, Chuck Wending would sponsor a weekly storytelling contest on his blog Terrible Minds, based on prompts he posted, which was a lot of fun. Then he gave it up. Awww. Now that I have my aggregatory SFFBloggers up and running, I had a wild thought to promote blogging and…
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It’s Alive! SFF Bloggers Aggregator Posting On Four Platforms
(Beth Turnage Blog) A SAD TALE: Years ago, I started SFF Bloggers.com, an aggregator of science fiction and fantasy blogs. I had other aggregators for different topics, and one in particular got a respectable number of views. Why couldn’t an aggregator work in the fiction realm too! But SFF Blogger, within a year of…
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Warning! Sarcasm Levels High—AI Detects Boomer Need Help
(Beth Turnage Blog) Professor Halloran stood before the class and adjusted the display behind him. “HTML was not technically a programming language. It was a markup language. Notice the paired opening and closing tags. This forced early internet users to think hierarchically.” Madison raised her hand. “But why didn’t they just tell the AI…
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New Years poems published
Not poems about New Years, just on/near the start of the year.First, there were two poems that technically came out on the last day of the year in the third issue of SpecPoVerse. “Six images in the mist” is a horror (ish) poem of the spooky …
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One last poem published for 2025
I think I’ve had more poems published this year than I got around to posting about. (Subscribe to my newsletter and/or follow me on Bluesky to make sure you don’t miss anything!) I’ll take a look back at the full year and should be putting up a review …
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An Author Interview With Kelleen Rynin
(Beth Turnage) I recently took a writer’s workshop, Young Adult Novel Writing with Emily Colin at Authors Publish. One of the exercises was to write an interview with your character. Since I’m working on Master’s License, I chose 14-year-old Kelleen Rynin, the protagonist of the story, which was very brave of me. I’d never…
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Hanging Out With the Kids — Recent YA Fantasy TV
In general, the best stories don’t have an upper age limit, and this fact has been traditionally recognised in fantasy more than most genres. The Hobbit, the Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials — they were all published as children’s books, and the all-ages phenomenon of Harry Potter put kids’ books and films firmly…
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"The Alien Words, Formed and Empty" in Star*Line
My poem “The Alien Words, Formed and Empty” is in the latest issue of Star*Line. It’s a poem about aliens, architecture, and communication.Star*Line is the official magazine for the SFPA. This joins a handful of others I’ve had in various issues. I’m a…
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"The Alien Words, Formed and Empty" in Star*Line
My poem “The Alien Words, Formed and Empty” is in the latest issue of Star*Line. It’s a poem about aliens, architecture, and communication.Star*Line is the official magazine for the SFPA. This joins a handful of others I’ve had in various issues. I’m a…