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YOUR COSMIC KITCHEN by Pat Hauldren

YOUR COSMIC KITCHEN
A Worldbuilding Wizardry Workbook for Speculative Fiction Romance Writers

From Planet Texas,
With Love and Aliens

by Pat Hauldren

TAKE YOUR WORLDBUILDING TO THE NEXT LEVEL!


What if worldbuilding felt less like technical jargon and more like cooking up magical recipes?

Your Cosmic Kitchen is the craft cookbook Speculative Fiction Romance writers have been hungry for. Written by award-winning author, editor, and writing instructor Pat Hauldren, this deliciously inventive guide serves up essential ingredients for building unforgettable worlds—worlds where the setting itself becomes part of the love story.

ed. Pat Hauldren

My short story is: Catsup

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.

Click here for my short stories Click here for my poetry Click here for books I've edited, proofed, formatted, etc.

For stories in work:

The Angel Project: Emergence Book 1

The Awakening: The Stranded Gods

The Downing

The Winged Warrior

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This is where I go deep into the research I do for my stories. Where did the Grigori come from? How and why did I change them? How do they evolve in the book I’m writing now? What is my next book? What kind of  research am I doing there?

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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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