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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Cat Voleur
I’ve always been interested in local legends, and had heard of these bridges in the US all my life. Last year, when doing urban legend research for a different project, I found out how close I had grown up to one of the Cry Baby Bridges, and after a brief visit I felt compelled to… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Cover Reveal
Our fifth anniversary celebration of the Collection of Utter Speculation kicked off Friday, September 1, but today it really gets going with the cover reveal of our Fifth Collection, Cry Baby Bridge. Read more
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Interview with Suburban Life Magazine for 2023 Super Women
Hey look, it’s me! I had a chat with William Donahue about where speculation pub is going, where it has been and whether my co-editors River and Susan are so short or I am so tall. Check out the full article at Suburban Life Magazine Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge is open for submissions
It’s been five whole years since we released our very first collection of utter speculation. Since then everything has changed, not in the least being that our little workshop of friends has turned into an indie publisher, and our collections of utter speculation are now filled with stories by amazing authors from all over the Read more
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Cry Cry Baby, a special book for our fifth collection of utter speculation
We’ve expanded out from the collections of utter speculation since then, but we always return home to speculate utterly, and this year marks our fifth year doing so, so we’ve gone back over our collections and discussed some of our favorite things about each one, and decided on a topic that really gives our authors… Read more
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Work in Progress, Spec Pub’s Story Crafting Workbook is here
When you start out as a workshop called “Writers Block” you come up with a lot of methods for getting a story on the page. River Eno, Susan Tulio and I have struggled our way through four collections of utter speculation, starting with Roanoke where we had no idea what we were doing. Read more
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February Finally Ends After Four Years
‘ve never been a fan of this second month of the year, but I’ve tried to find ways to mitigate it. I’ve leaned in, leaned out, hunkered down and gotten out of town. . .But March is forthcoming, at last, and with it some fun news. Read more
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Spread thin but still around
I have always loved this blog, but am aware that I have updated less and less. The reason is good, I have a lot of work. Between Speculation Pub, the series I’m putting out on Vella (which I did have to take a summer break from), a recent dream trip to the Greek Isles and Read more
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