Bubble and Squeek for 13 Dec 2023

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Author, Editor, Media Tie-In Writer

Bubble & Squeek
December 13, 2023

BackerKit: I am launching a kickstarter for in late March 2024 called “Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980.” It is a cozy, Middle Grade appropriate, ghost story, loosely based on fictionalized me at ten years old while living in a 300-year-old manor house in Belgium. Won’t you be my penpal?

Fun Fact: I have been a member of the HWA for 10 years now. https://horror.org/

Good-bye: Good-bye Pharaoh. Pharaoh, our beloved Egyptian Mau, has gone to the clearing at the end of the path.

Interview: Cat and I were interviewed by Arley Song for Clarkesworld on how we edit together on the Reinvented Anthology series. I think it turned out SO good.

Panel: DECEPTIONS & DEATH: TALKING THRILLERS with Thriller Authors, recorded on YouTube. It was a good time and full of tips on writing thrillers.

Publication: I have a new story in the latest Valdemar anthology, Anything With Nothing. It is called “Needs Must When Evil Bides.” This was one of those stories that made me want to write more about the character.

Publication: The Reinvented Detective anthology has been released! Get at your favorite store now. On Amazon and Barnes&Noble.

Shoutout: The Reinvented Detective anthology edited by me and Cat Rambo got a shout out in Gizmodo.

Support: As always… if you appreciate my work and would like to support me, I love coffee. I am made of caffeine. This is the quickest way to brighten my day.

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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