M. Boyd

I used to stretch a lot more than I do now. When I was young, I was a dancer, and in dance, flexibility is key. I wasn’t the most...

Curly hair that always frizzes in the humidity. A love for the shadows. Workaholics. One of the most interesting things about my writing,...

Howdy, everyone! I’ve been a bit busy this week, so instead of doing a full blog post, I wanted to give a few updates about this blog and...

An adventure and a yummy treat, it truly is the best of both worlds! Fern Haught’s debut graphic novel, The Baker and the Bard, is a...

It’s that time of year. Love is in the air, couples huddle together on snowy nights, and aisle after aisle in the grocery store is filled...

People always say that the key to being a successful writer is to not just write, but to write every day. But what would I manage to...

Early nights. Biting winds. Freezing rain. No, I mean actual freezing rain. Wintertime has always been rough for me. The long periods of...

Look out, young detectives–The Hampton House Mystery, a new installment in Ellen Alexander’s Dinswood Chronicles, is a wonderful mystery...

Make a list. Cross each item off. Make a list. Cross each item off. The furious scribbling of pencil against sticky notes and scrap...

Last year, I opened this blog with a New Years’ resolutions post. Much has changed since then, as I described in my 2023 review post, but...

2023 was certainly a year. That’s pretty much all I can say. At the beginning of 2023, as I usually do, I outlined my goals as if 2023...

The train to Elsewhere. The train to Elsewhere was a story that was only ever told in a whisper, passed between disillusioned teenagers,...

With the end of the year approaching, it is time to begin to look at what will be upcoming next year. While I’ll be doing an official...

So, it’s finally happened. All semester, I’ve been running on a state of half-burnout, keeping myself afloat with periodic rest days and...

Sustainability: The state of maintaining or increasing all forms of capital, including natural, social, and economic. Over the past...

The phrase “NaNoWriMo” has a different meaning for everyone. For some, the phrase signals a time to be more intentional about setting...

Another year, another NaNoWriMo. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo a few times now, always doing the traditional 50k words for the first...

The floppy disk gives telekinetic powers. The fridge can (and will) kill you. And the rubber duck just wants to be really, really...

The worst stop on my mail route was the Jacklantern Mansion.

What would you do to save the only people who treated you with kindness? The Hungry Dark, the first book in the Magic, Monsters, and Radical