Anthologies

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Short & Twisted Western Tales

My Story: The Near Girl’s Gift

edited by Becky Burkheart

Saddle up and hang on for a wild ride! Cowboys, robots, donkeys and a prostitute with a heart of gold. Spirits, local legends and ancient mythology – is anything what it seems to be?

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Short & Twisted Christmas Tales

My Story: The Near Girl’s Gift

edited by Becky Burkheart

It’s been watching … it’s coming to town and sliding down your chimney. Kringle or Krampus? Of this world or not? Aliens, elves and reindeer, zombies and hard-boiled detectives. Which ghost of Christmas is coming for you?

If you love Halloween but are so-so about Christmas – these stories are for you. Scary, funny, sweet or sad – they’re all TWISTED.

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From Planet Texas with Love and Aliens

My Story: Catsup

edited by Pat Hauldren

Speculative fiction is a thing unto itself, full of wonder and wisdom, creativity and imagination. Here is the first anthology of the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop. In these pages, you’ll find a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and horror with stories like growing up in the space age, a housewife who hunts the homeless for dinner, the magic of mirrors and shades, an intergalactic triathlon, a magic shad, and much more.

My favorite anthology because I collected the stories, edited them, and formatted the book for both print and ebook. These stories are from the North Texas Speculative Fiction Writers Workshop (NTSFWW) and I’m extremely proud of them.

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Start Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
End Date: Friday, October 30, 2026

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Bestsellers are bestsellers for a reason. Bestselling authors use their writing toolbox and skills to create a fascinating story. In this class, we will analyze bestselling authors and see how they created their bestseller and apply those techniques to our own. Bestseller here we come!

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Generating Gorgeous Genre-Using Genre Elements and Tropes to Enhance Your Stories

Start Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
End Date: Friday, July 31, 2026

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Your readers crave the essential elements that make their favorite genres irresistible—and it’s your job to deliver them brilliantly. Genre fiction thrives on tropes: those familiar yet powerful building blocks that readers expect and love. Master these elements, and you’ll have the tools to craft stories that satisfy genre expectations while standing out from the crowd. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to identify, adapt, and elevate classic genre tropes to create fiction that keeps readers hungry for more.

She’s running from the darkness. But what lurks inside her is darker.

The debut novel from award-winning author Pat Hauldren explores questions of who we think we are vs the truth of who we are, and the price we pay no matter the path taken.

Life is not simple for Zarachiel, freshly escaped from her drug-dealing foster parents in deep South Texas. In Dallas, she stays off the grid. She finds a new family in Gracie, from whom she leases an extra bedroom, and Katie, Gracie’s four-year-old daughter.

The cartel attacks just as Zarachiel makes contact with her biological father. They want what she stole from them.

Amid chaos and survival for both her and her new family, Zarachiel discovers her true nonhuman self as she fights for her freedom and the freedom of humanity.

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