vampire & faerie

In my faerie/vampire lore - vampires are really attracted to faerie blood and have to try very hard not to harm them when they fall in love with them which is the significance of this quote should anyone be wondering. In all my books and short stories I include this lore, but not all of you may be familiar with my work so I wanted to clarify.

Second Week

I think my editor had a lot of fun making these, and I think they're all so pretty.

Day 7

Day Six

The Next Excerpt

Another Exerpt

I honestly love that my editor is as excited as I am for this book. I hope you all will enjoy the excerpts (and the book - once it's out)!

Sister's birthday and 3rd excerpt

Today is my little sister's birthday! So I hope she has a wonderful day.

Here's the excerpt for the third day of September.

Excerpt 2

Hello, friends!

Well, for September my publisher wanted me to start sharing some excerpts from my upcoming poetry collection fairy tale love. He made some cute graphics, and since today is September first it is time to start.

Birthday Present From the Universe

So remember how I was confused as to what I should do with fairy tale love? Well, my editor said that he's got all of his ducks in a row and he will be able to publish this book, after all! I was so relieved because I wasn't sure what to do. I really wanted to publish that book, but I wasn't sure what to do.

Because they had done a lot of work on that project and included their own artwork for the pages. It just seemed wrong to go to someone completely different and start anew. Not just because I would miss out on the artwork, but it just felt wrong to me. So in the end, I am glad things worked themselves out.

Not sure when this book will be out, but it is coming! I'm so excited for it.

Book Out Over the Weekend!

I didn't have much time to post about my new book this weekend because I was spending time with my family. Saturday was my cousin Taylor's birdal shower. I ended up drinking a lot of water. It was super hot and I didn't want to get sick but the heat almost got the better of me, I think. I will be happy when this heat wave is over. All of my fans are on and I'm still sweating buckets.

Anyway, my poetry collection not your piñata is alive! If you're one of those people who believe that friendship break-ups can be worse than romantic ones, then this is the book for you! This is about a twenty year friendship that I thought would last forever, but now I'm not so sure. I didn't know it could only take three paragraphs and no salutations on a letter to break my heart, but it did.

I hope that you can find solace that if you're in this situation that you're not alone. I hope that my words can help you understand that not everyone thinks it's okay to not hold themselves or others accountable. It is so easy to walk away from someone. I want and need the people in my life that want to stay no matter what.

Onwards Adventures in Print

You're probably tired of hearing me talk about this anthology, but Onwards Adventures is now able to be purchased in print as well as received in digital formats. You can grab a paperback copy here: Onwards Adventures Fantastic Tales Print Edition.

June 21st is the launch date for my next book not your piñata. It is a collection of poetry about my anger and pain that instead of holding herself accountable, an old friend of mine wants to start with a blank slate after twenty years of friendship. I find that idea quite humiliating and a betrayal of the sisterhood we once shared, and I examine these feelings in my new collection.

Sad News

I'm not sure what is going to happen with my book fairy tale love. I was so excited to see what the publisher was coming up with for the three different editions, but he messaged me a few months ago to say that he was no longer publishing my book. He said he would continue to help me, though, and I could self-publish it.

I was really crushed by that news. I still am, if I am honest. I'm not sure what's going to happen with that book, but I really enjoy that it is one of my brighter, happier poetry collections. A lot of my poetry touches on my trauma and dark things/situations/incidents that have happened in my life so I created this one to put some of my love/joy/laughter into the world, as well.

I will hopefully find a new home for it if this publisher drops it all together because I honestly don't know what else to do, at that point. It is also sad because they were going to publish another book of mine, but obviously that's not going to happen. I guess that's what happens when you get your hopes up, but sometimes even with low or no expectations people still let me down. I guess it's a part of life, sometimes.

Making Some More Noise

No one's made much noise for my latest book faerie witch queen so I thought I'd make another post. There's a whopping six likes on my personal Facebook account and my other social media isn't doing much better. I had zero likes on both Bluesky and Twitter. The algorithms are really kicking my butt on social media, but I'm doing my best to promote my work.

So if you happen to like poetry, Sleeping Beauty, and Maleficent maybe check out this new collection of mine! I would truly appreciate it.

Being an indie author is hard, but I'm trying not to let it get me down! I love writing, I love my books, and I can't imagine a life where I wasn't writing and dreaming and simply creating. I hope you lot enjoy my creations, too!

letters to an old friend

Sorry for the mopey last post. I just wanted to be honest. I sometimes feel like I am a failure in comparison to my other writer friends. I know comparison is a thief of joy, and I should just focus on my own work; but sometimes I can't help but notice. It makes me wonder if there's something wrong with me. But maybe my supporters are just more silent. If you're one of my silent supporters, could you please make some noise? It would be nice to know I'm appreciated.

In other news, I have a new book coming out soon. It's titled letters to an old friend, and it's a book of epistolary poems (poems written in the form of letters for anyone who may not know). I like to challenge myself, and I thought it would be a fun way of writing poetry in a way that's different from most of the other poems I've written.

What makes this a wee bit awkward is the person I wrote this to recently added me on Facebook after we haven't spoken in years. I'm going to let them make the first move, though, because I feel like that's what makes the most sense. After all they added me and not the other way around. So far they haven't said anything to me so I'm in this strange sort of limbo of are we actually friends again in the traditional sense or was it just an add for nostalgia's sake. I guess time will tell.

New Book Dropped!

My new collection faerie witch queen is out! It came out yesterday.

It's a poetry collection centered around self-empowerment and women empowerment, in general. It is a collection based off of Maleficent (my favorite Disney villain - although she's more an anti-hero in the live-action films [which I also love]). So if you love Sleeping Beauty, but could never relate to being a princess this collection is for you because I was a little girl that felt that way, too.

I thought by being someone different that people could love me, but all I could ever be was me. I am no longer ashamed of that, and neither should you be. The world is a vast, beautiful place full of diversity. It would be boring if we were all the same.

mantle lake

My latest book was published in February of this year. I just realized I hadn't said anything about it here yet, whoops! So without further ado, here's the link where you can purchase mantle lake. I originally had the title as mantle lake, to echo a poem in my book but my publisher changed it. It irritated me a little bit, but I didn't say anything about it from the get go so I just have to suck it up and deal with it.

My collection mantle lake is a hybrid collection of photography and poetry about one of my favorite places to visit when I was living in Maine. It is also about the season of my soul and my favorite season: autumn.

I will try to be better about updating this blog. No promises, though. Life is constant and very often hectic for me between work, life, and writing.

Make My Christmas - Buy A Book!

You can make my Christmas brighter by buying one of my books!

Here are my available fiction titles:
https://www.amazon.com/Mates-Linda-M-Crate/dp/B09TDS26F3/
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Magic-Linda-M-Crate/dp/B0B6XRZNH9/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN995HH4
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CX14H4FL

Here are my books of poetry: https://www.amazon.com/Sweetest-Blood-Linda-M-Crate/dp/9389690358/
https://www.amazon.com/samurai-Linda-M-Crate-ebook/dp/B08L3TW7FZ/
https://www.amazon.com/Splintered-Terror-Linda-M-Crate/dp/1983604186/
https://www.amazon.com/Unleashing-Archers-Linda-M-Crate-ebook/dp/B09F9V1QX5/
https://www.amazon.com/Follow-Black-Raven-Linda-Crate/dp/B09B1DNXPM/
https://www.amazon.com/hecates-child-Linda-M-Crate/dp/B09LGW5ZD1/
https://www.amazon.com/you-will-not-control-me/dp/8182537010/
https://www.amazon.com/MYTHOLOGY-MY-BONES-Linda-Crate/dp/9390202523/
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/m/product/301398
https://www.claresongbirdspub.com/shop/
https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/fat-pretty-linda-m-crate
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMZBG8F8

Photography book:
https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Creek-Linda-M-Crate/dp/B0BXMTJST7/

Haiku collection: www.amazon.com/these-ancient-veins-Linda-Crate/dp/B0D1JJG6QN/

A Long Needed Update

Sorry, I'm terribly quite terrible at keeping a blog and keeping it up to date. But I do try.

Haha! Anyway, my book fairy tale love will hopefully be out soon. I've gotten the names and emails of some people who are willing to be arc readers, and my editor reached out to tell me that there will be fundraising to get this project up and running. I am excited! I have wanted to share this book for quite some time.

It is a collection sapphic poetry about me imagining what it would be like to have a wife. Of having that fairy tale love that I've always dreamed of since I was a kid. While most of my poetry is autobiographical, I decided to just go with it. I wanted there to be an example of healthy, happy queer love out in the universe when there's still this trend to "kill your queer characters" off in media.

The book is sappy, romantic, and dreamy. Flows like water or honey, maybe even both. I'm really excited about when it might be published. I'm not too sure on when it will be released, but my publisher and I talked about it and there will be three different versions at different price points: a color version with artwork, a black and white version with artwork, and a version that is just the poetry itself. I'm not sure what the price points will be yet but I will keep you up to date as more information becomes available! I'm just really excited for this.

Just A Little Bit of Everything

If you haven't already read my novella The Queen's Son, you can get a little preview of it if you grab a copy of the March 2024 edition of The Alien Buddha Zine: here.

This is the book that comes directly before my short story collection King Quinlin which is due out March 3rd. I'm super excited to get my first short story collection out into the world. I have another one that I am searching for a home for, and I am hoping it finds one soon. We'll see!

Still hoping to find some book bloggers for my upcoming poetry collection fairy tale love. I'm not sure if blogging about poetry books is common or not, but I remember with one of my former publishers she had created a book tour for one of my novels. I would think it would be the same concept, but I don't know. I will keep trying to find anyone who might be interested in blogging about this.

Have a good day, friends! Always remember that you are worthy no matter what anyone tells you, and life is too short to follow anything less than your dreams. Until next time!