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  • Trick-or-Treat

    As the sun retreated from the sky and the last rays of light died in the air, Marla’s small body began to materialize on top of the cracked asphalt. Her hips appeared first, the round bulbs of her pelvis spiraling out of obscurity as spinal vertebrae sprouted to climb up to her shoulders and bare…

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  • Why Horror?

    When you tell people that you are an author, the inevitable first question is always, “Well, what do you write?” To which I nonchalantly answer, “horror.” I love seeing the reactions. Usually, it is either shock with an awkward stumbling or fascination. In any case, the reaction generally provides a pretty solid gauge on how…

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  • Submitting Book #3

    Where have I been lately? What have I been doing these past months? Why have I sucked horrendously at this whole blogging, social networking business? Aside from my day job, my family, and my workout obsession, BOOK #3! Technically, this is the third book I have completed in three years. Additionally, this third book is…

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  • Thankful

    I am going to get a little cliche for the season here. I generally abstain from the contrived November posting about everything I am thankful for. Yet, this year, on this blog, I am going to make an exception. A lot has happened in the past year. Last December, Assent Publishing released my first book, Savages.…

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  • Savages Giveaway

    I recently gave away copies of The Waning on Goodreads. Now I am giving away a few copies of Savages. Enter to win! Goodreads Book Giveaway Savages by Christina Bergling Giveaway ends October 07, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway Christina Bergling christinabergling.com facebook.com/chrstnabergling @ChrstnaBergling chrstnaberglingfierypen.wordpress.com pinterest.com/chrstnabergling Savages Two survivors search the ruins of…

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  • Launching The Waning

    Another book out the door. eBook, paperback, and party. Whew. Savages and The Waning were released insanely close together. It really felt like Savages was scarcely out the door before I was booking the party for The Waning. In truth, that is because The Waning was written as Savages was moving through the publication process with Assent Publishing. Back before…

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  • Book Clubbing and Comic Conning

    Being a published author, even on the smallest of scales, remains a perpetually surreal experience. A couple weeks ago, I attended my first book club. This experience was especially unique because it was also the first time (to my knowledge) that my book, Savages, was the book said club read that month. Even though this book…

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  • Launching Savages

    Savages is fully launched and out upon the world! ebook is released; paperback is released. And finally, I threw a launch party and book signing to commemorate it. Rather than maintain a professional veneer of a polished, public author, I am going to be more raw in my account of my release. More personal and…

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  • On Writing Savages

    When you publish a book, the first thing people ask you is where the idea came from. The honest answer (that it just one day materialized out of the gray matter between my ears and started knocking on my skull until I wrote it out) always sounds like a vague copout, so I guess the…

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  • Sweet Success

    When I was in fourth grade, my teacher did extensive writing lessons. We wrote different formats of poetry. We even wrote and published our own short stories, which included printing and illustrating the pages then binding them together. It was in this class that I realized I wanted to be an author. I always wrote.…

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