Rachel A. Brune

Category: Writing Wins

  • Cold Run is live!!

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    Three years ago I sat down with a character who had surfaced during one of my writing exercise sessions. A grumpy, disgruntled werewolf, Rick Keller showed up in my notes the night that the organization he used to work for came to get him. Throughout the next year or so, this short excerpt stayed on…

  • Just keep swimming…

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    You ever have that moment where you travel from New Jersey to Georgia to go to your husband’s military ball, with a dress carefully packed away that you bought in a NY Macy’s — you get to Georgia, unpack the dress, put it on, do the hair and the shoes and the makeup, link arms…

  • Pics from the upcoming release of Cold Run…

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    While I’m definitely getting excited about the August 2nd release of my novel, Cold Run, from Untold Press, any attempts to force myself to relax and enjoy the anticipation are in vain. I keep thinking that I need to research the ever elusive sources for a piece I’m trying to put together about innovation in…

  • New anthology release! Luna’s Children: Full Moon Mayhem

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    About 11 months ago, I received word that my short story, “Night Run,” had been accepted in a werewolf anthology published by Dark Oak Press. At the time, I wrote a whole long blog post about how the short story was part of a larger universe, and that I hoped getting accepted would raise my chances…

  • Birthday Month Sale!

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    “I’m going to do the story either way,” said Mark. “But if I’m going to get anywhere, I need your help.” “Every time I help you, I end up in front of a camera or in the hospital,” said Mark. Mark is a cub reporter looking for his big break. Scott is a New York…

  • All sorts of news…

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    And, since it’s my blog, I’ll start with my news first! (Also, as some of my regular readers … reader? … guessed, I’m supposed to be writing right now. Ha.) My secret agent werewolf novel, Cold Run, is going to be published by Untold Press. This was the book I wrote for NaNoWriMo 2011, when I…

  • Something cool…

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    …no, not the interviews I’m (still) working on. Let me tell you, it’s been interesting around here. Eventually I will get around to posting. But in the meantime, I want to share something from graphic artist Sylvester Temple: You may ask – what is that? That—or rather, they—are Rose Allen Lee and Frank, from work-in-progress…

  • A big thing, and some little things.

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    Okay, actually two big things. First, I am home after a year stationed in Kuwait. It was hot, sandy, a little boring sometimes, but also kind of fun at other times. Second, the Touring Theater of North Carolina will present their production of Deployed, one of their readers’ theatre series, this weekend in Greensboro, NC.…

  • Short Story Out! (Phew…)

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    First, the announcement!   My short story, “Shadow Pool,” is finally up and out into the world. Issue 2 of Imaginarium, the spec lit mag of UC Berkeley, is currently available. And, bonus, right now both Issue 1 and Issue 2 are available for free. There is some poetry, some artwork, and of course, short…

  • Quick note…

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    It’s been a little crazy over here at the Infamous Scribbler cave. I’ve been doing way less scribbling, and way more hand-holding, editing, teaching, and other things than I had hoped. I’m about to hit my third week of teaching class, and I have to tell you, my kids are swamped and so am I.…