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A 3D-rendered image of a book titled "Hauntings and Hoarfrost," edited by Rhonda Parrish. The cover features an icy, dark design with intricate frost patterns surrounding the text. The book is standing upright, slightly angled.

Hauntings And Hoarfrost

A 3D-rendered image of a book titled "Hauntings and Hoarfrost," edited by Rhonda Parrish. The cover features an icy, dark design with intricate frost patterns surrounding the text. The book is standing upright, slightly angled.

A new anthology is coming!

This one is really fun, where “fun” means full of gothic fantasy and dark, wintry chills. It’s the perfect January read — or for my southern hemisphere friends, it’s a great way to cool off during the peak of the summer. (No, really, I wrote my chilling tale of shivery threat while living in brutal heat. Try it!)

This book is simply dripping with icy dark aesthetic.

Hauntings And Hoarfrost

The Black Friday sale

Here in the US of A, we have a modern tradition of Black Friday sales and corresponding Black Friday alert emails to fill your inbox. Yeah, we’re doing that here, too.

A Holiday Sparkle Book Sticker with a tree in the shape of a book.

20% off!

That’s right, 20% off nearly the entire web store! Ebooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, stickers, pins, nearly everything!

The Black Friday sale

We are funded!

I’m currently at Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Colorado Gold conference, both speaking and learning from some awesome authors and publishers. But also, we just wrapped up BackerKit’s first ever Booktopia, with my new epic fantasy series The Eyes of Mandoral, and we rocked it!

We are funded!
Book cover titled "The Poet's Eye" by Laura VanArendonk Baugh. The cover features two characters, a woman and a man, standing in a grand architectural setting, bathed in golden light, facing a distant gothic building. Decorative text and designs frame the top.

Cover Reveal for The Poet’s Eye! (and a huge sale)

Big news today, on two fronts!

  • unprecedented sale on Fired Up, Frantic, and Freaked Out
  • Cover reveal and follow for The Poet’s Eye
A promotional image for a book titled "Fired Up, Frantic, and Freaked Out" featuring a dog on the cover. The text reads "75% OFF" against a background of a beach during sunset. The author's name is Laura VanArendonk Baugh CPDT-KA KPA CTP.

75% off Audiobook Sale!

I’ve never seen this before! I don’t set the pricing on the audiobook of Fired Up, Frantic, and Freaked Out, and it’s rarely on sale—but just now, it’s on a 75% discount. That’s just $3.25 USD for the whole audiobook!

Please feel free to share this link with friends or clubs or whoever, to grab while the sale is on. Again, I don’t set the price on this edition, so I don’t know when it will happen again. Go get it! ????

The Poet’s Eye cover reveal

I’m so excited to share this beautiful cover with you!

Cover Reveal for The Poet’s Eye! (and a huge sale)

Cover Reveal: Carpe Noctem

Cover reveal! Feast your eyes on Carpe Noctem, a collection of stories about the night. A little spooky, a little edgy, and an extra surprise you might not expect from a book…

Night transforms the world. Owls and bats claim the sky from songbirds, nocturnal predators prowl beneath cover of darkness, and cloying shadows grow thick enough to swallow a scream. As the saying goes: people aren’t truly afraid of the dark—they fear what could be in the darkness with them.

The twenty-two authors featured within the pages of Carpe Noctem descended into these midnight waters to explore the deepest horrors and wildest wonders which darkness cloaks. This anthology is not for the faint of heart.

Carpe Noctem offers an exclusive solo-roleplaying game by Maxwell Lander to serve as your guide to this collection of nighttime tales. Or you can journey alone. What’s the worst that could happen?

Featuring works by Teresa Aguinaldo; Tyler Battaglia; Stewart C Baker; Beth Cato; Barry Charman; Tommy Cheis; Jonathan Chibuik; Derek Des Anges; Richard DiPirro; David J. Fortier; David Jón Fuller; Chadwick Ginther; Joseph Halden; Richard Lau; Jennifer Lesh Fleck; Avra Margariti; Thomas C. Mavroudis; Cat McDonald; Paul McQuade; Ville Meriläinen; Tais Teng; and Laura VanArendonk Baugh.

Cover Reveal: Carpe Noctem
The sun is setting over a lake with the words giftmas 2023 written on it.

Giftmas 2023

The sun is setting over a lake with the words "Giftmas 2023" written on it.

Update: We did it! See note at bottom.

Once upon a time, there was a town.

It wasn’t a city, large and anonymous and impersonal. It wasn’t a tiny village, either, with only a few households of families local for generations. No, this was a town, of exactly the size you’d think of in a heart-warming holiday tale, and populated entirely by middle-class folk with harmless quirks and mildly interesting jobs.

Henry (he sponsored lighted wreaths for two lamp posts on the town square) noticed it first. He watched for a moment, and when it was time for his coffee break he went next door to the post office (garland on the counter, with some fairy lights twisted in) and pointed it out to Tanya. She was intrigued, and she thought to take a photo and text Miranda (who saw to the lighted and animated Grinch figure in front of the library). Miranda knew Todd (lighted candy canes for the courthouse lawn) would have a good view, so she asked him to walk by and report.

Giftmas 2023