Singing Storm of Fire

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I’m afraid that I’ve forgotten some of the people who helped greatly with these short stories, as some were written long before the thought of a collection occurred to me.

Here are the ones I remember:

Beth Bowles

Andy Bradford

Ann Cecil

Brian Chee

Russell Davis

Joan Fisher

Bonnie Funk

Kevin Geiselman

Ruth L. Heller, DVM

Nancy Janda

Don Kosak

Laurel Jamieson Lohrey

Nan Nuessle

Ellen McMicking

Sue Petroulas

Hope Erica Ring, M.D.

June Drexler Robertson

David Stein

Traci Scroggins

Larisa Van Winkle

N. A. Young

Before We Begin, I Would Like to Say a Few Words

I learned how to read before I started kindergarten. I was an avid reader, devouring entire libraries’ worth of books. Unfortunately, since I read quickly, as soon as I found something I loved, I would have read all that was available.

Eventually I realized that if I wanted an unending supply, I was going to have to make it up myself. So I did.

The problem with being a writer is it’s a skill that doesn’t turn off easily once you have it ramped up to novel-a-year speed. It kind of goes into overdrive and every chance it gets, it spits out more ideas than you can possibly use. How did these established characters first meet? How did that person get his name? What was it like building a railroad through virgin forest filled with monsters? What if your brother was half-elf? What would a garden DIY show be like on a world with man-eating plants?

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