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Silver Song is available for pre-order!
Silver Song will be available in digital and paperback on July 7, 2026. Pre-orders are open!
Kay Zempel
2 days ago1 min read
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Work in Progress: My Darling Necromancer
A meeting between a mysterious stranger and a necromancer
Kay Zempel
Feb 186 min read
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Are the books anti-intellectual or are you?
Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-black-t-shirt-lying-on-yellow-bed-4866040/ Content warnings: language, sex, and rape The title is rather clickbaity, but it does sum up the crux of an argument that has take root in my brain recently. Every few months or so, someone will pop up on the internet with the same hot take: romance novels, and their readers, are either degenerates or stupid or both. Are there problems in romance as a genre? Definitely.
Kay Zempel
Feb 166 min read
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Short Story: The Red Mug
A short story about the small moments in romance
Kay Zempel
Feb 133 min read
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Happy Birthday to Moon Dance
The Moon Dance ebook is out now! You can find purchase information here . TW: suicide, depression I started writing Moon Dance as I came out of a severe suicidal episode. I had quit my job after a lengthy medical leave and we had decided to move across the country from California to Washington state (yes up and down is still across the country!). For much of the process of writing and rewriting Moon Dance I was processing my own grief, trauma, and mental illness. A year ago
Kay Zempel
Oct 31, 20251 min read
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Moon Dance is now available on Barnes & Noble and Bookshop
Good news for folks who want more options than Amazon for purchasing Moon Dance ! It is now available for pre-order as an ebook on Bookshop.org and as an ebook and paperback at Barnes & Noble . The ebook will release on 10/31 for all retailers while the paperback will release on 11/4.
Kay Zempel
Oct 27, 20251 min read
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On Endings and Beginnings
On closing a chapter of life and the beginning of a new one
Kay Zempel
Oct 8, 20253 min read
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On Being a Creative
On being a creative and what creativity means
Kay Zempel
Sep 17, 20253 min read
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