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November 25, 2022•2 min read

HopePunk: The Story Bundle!

I love the term “HopePunk”. I try to write in the spirit of it as often as possible. What is HopePunk? you may ask…

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Lori Alden Holuta

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October 5, 2022•7 min read

Queer Sci Fi’s newest LGBTQ+ speculative fiction anthology is here: Clarity

Queer Sci Fi’s newest LGBTQ+ speculative fiction anthology is here: Clarity. And there’s a giveaway. Clarity (noun) Four definitions to inspire writers around the world and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell: 1) Coherent and intelligible 2) Transparent or pure 3) Attaining certainty about something 4) Easy to see or hear Clarity features […]

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Lori Alden Holuta

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September 7, 2022•1 min read

Clarity – Honorable Mention and Judge’s Pick Awards

My 300 word flash fiction, “Magic Mirror” will soon be published along with 314 other flash fictions in a collection based around the theme of “Clarity”. Queer Sci Fi is the driving force behind this annual anthology project.

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Lori Alden Holuta

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July 25, 2022•2 min read

A New Way to Discover Books

Shepherd.com intends to give readers a new way to discover books.

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Lori Alden Holuta

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July 19, 2022•2 min read

Werks from the Iron Road releases Werk-Books Version 3.0

Werks from the Iron Road, a webstore and design house based in the virtual world of Second Life, has announced the arrival of Werk-Books Book Scripts Package, version 3.0, to its Second Life Marketplace webstore and at its virtual store inside Second Life.

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Lori Alden Holuta

A Life Invented

March 6, 2021•1 min read

Authors in a Virtual World: The Second Life Bookclub

A few days ago I read from A Life Invented on the Second Life Book Club, a talk show that broadcasts from the virtual space of Second Life.

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Lori Alden Holuta

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February 26, 2021•7 min read

Meet Storyteller Fran Wilde

I discovered Fran Wilde’s imagination through Updraft. the first of the three books in the Bone Universe novels. Those books flew me up to a fantastical world where humans live above the clouds in towers of living bone. But even in such mind-bending surroundings, what really hooked me were her characters. The next story I […]

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Lori Alden Holuta

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March 18, 2020•1 min read

Social Distancing? You Can Safely Approach A Book

Read a book! There’s no better time than now to catch up on your to-read pile. If you don’t have a stockpile of books already, there’s lots to read for free online.

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Lori Alden Holuta

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January 26, 2020•1 min read

A Nose for Wordplay

Here is a little poem by Willard R. Espy, who wrote wonderful wordplay books in the 70s and 80s.

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Lori Alden Holuta

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August 9, 2019•1 min read

What I’m Reading For Book Lovers Day 2019

I’ll be finishing “Absinthe, Alewives & Alchemy” by Kate Henriott and Ted Jauw today. I met the authors at a Michigan Steam Expo earlier this year, and found them both utterly delightful folk. Kate shared some of her homemade absinthe with me, and I really need to track her down again to buy a few […]

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Lori Alden Holuta