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Kirkus Reviews Names Gas Giant Gambit Among 100 Best Indie Books of 2025
Finally, the big news I have been holding on to since October 1st has been announced! Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale From Beyond the Cygnus Rift has been named one of Kirkus’s Best Indie Books of 2025! This is an incredible honor to receive with my debut novel, even…
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My Author Bucket List – Revisit
(I know, I wrote about this topic back in February, but that was before Gas Giant Gambit came out, and before I became an actual published author. So, I’m doing it again, this time with a little more knowledge, experience, and appreciation for what I have already done!) While on…
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Gas Giant Gambit ARCs!
Keeping it short and sweet this week because of the big news: Gas Giant Gambit’s Advanced Review Copies are live! You can read my debut, genre-mashup novel right now! Alex Parker Publishing is using NetGalley and BookFunnel for ARCs, so anyone can sign up and download a free copy for…
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Gas Giant Gambit Book Signing Event!
It is official! Gas Giant Gambit comes out on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, and I will be doing a book signing at the Oshawa Centre Indigo on Saturday, September 20th! I’ll be there from 12:00 PM until they kick me out! So, if you’re excited about science fiction, and space…
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Hope, Fear, & the Future
I know, I know. Last week I got a little political, and I don’t usually do that here. But I’ve got some bad news; I’m going to do it again–but only a little. And as I have been reminded lately, if “reading is political” (which it surely is), then writing…
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Gas Giant Gambit Deal Announcement!
It’s official and I can talk about it! Gas Giant Gambit has been picked up by the indie press Alex Parker Publishing! This is the same publishing company that accepted my very first published short story (a horror titled “SSID” which can be found and read for free on their…
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Space-Western
A few months ago, I wrote a blog about cosmic horror. I defined it, talked about the differences it has with sci-fi horror, and even talked a bit about the genres racist progenitor, H.P. Lovecraft. And now, as I wait to hear back from a publisher in regard to the…
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Raye’s Rant: Tales of the Expanding Star Wars Universe
Okay, so maybe I’m coping out on the blog this week, but last week I wrote my first, real, Raye’s Rant for my magazine Perseid Prophecies, so can you blame me for wanting more people to read it? It’s a short rant about how, while I am enjoying the new,…
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Perseid Prophecies
*”Perseid” is misspelled in the URL because I misspelled it in the title of this blog! But even though I can easily fix both, I won’t be fixing the URL because then all the links I shared will break. Oh well, just goes to show you should always spell check!…
E.S. Raye 