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Whew, the year 2022 marks twenty years since my first published MM story! Time really does seem to fly, even though while it often feels like I’m just getting started, it’s simultaneously difficult to recall not being an author now that I’ve been focusing on telling stories for so long.
Last month, I looked back on my first forays into audio with Gomez Pugh. You can find that interview on YouTube.
For February 2022, I thought I’d revisit the origin of The ABCs of Spellcraft series. Dixon and Yuri have taken on such a life of their own, I forget that I can credit a single line with the genesis of the whole series:
Nothing good ever came of a Valentine.
As a challenge, three good friends and I each wrote a story beginning with the same line. We co-released them all as the Bad Valentine series in 2019. It was such fun to see how we each came up with a story that was entirely different from the same starting point.
It’s always intriguing to see how multiple authors handle the same writing prompt. The four of us agreed that we wanted the stories to be light and low-angst for Valentine’s Day, but beyond that, the sky was the limit. What we ended up with was an array of adorable meet-cutes, wacky dates, and truly bizarre mishaps—but most of all, four fun stories that will bring a smile to your face.
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