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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 Author Interview: Ray Daley
follow writers in your genre and support them. Lift them when they are down, cheer their wins, commiserate their losses. Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Ef Deal
I think the truth lies in the definition of a bridge as a passage; some people don’t quite make it across. Read more
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Dori Lumpkin – Fifteen Second Feature # 2
At any given point in time, I’m working on at least 10 different projects. They’re usually short fiction, so I need a bunch of them to keep my mind occupied. Read more
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A Great Start to Summer
Beach Shorts is a different kind of anthology than what we’ve done in the past, but it still has the spec pub soul resonating in it’s summer vibe. It’s absolutely perfect to bring along on your Memorial Day weekend, whether it’s poolside, beach front, camping, cook out or just chilling at home. It’s fun, easy… 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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It’s almost time to speculate again…
And we’re heading back to our spooky roots. Details coming soon. Word count will be somewhere between 2000 and 8000 if you wanna get started. Read more
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