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  • A New WIP

    A New WIP

    Starting a new story or a new project is like dating someone new. The process is fresh and unencumbered. It is pure and charged with infatuation.

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  • Reading: Followers Opening

    Reading: Followers Opening

    What better teaser than the first chapter! Meet Sidney and her photographer friend, Brady, as they make fake blood horror art in the opening scene of Followers.

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  • When an Author Wants to Quit

    When an Author Wants to Quit

    I want to give it all up. All the striving. All the pushing. All the trying. I just want to stop and forget I ever wanted to. I won’t. But that’s what I want right now. To quit.

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  • Reading: Murder in The Rest Will Come

    Reading: Murder in The Rest Will Come

    Emma murders her dates in THE REST WILL COME. Listen to me read one such encounter. find more in THE REST WILL COME.

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  • Reading: “The Dark Sign”

    One of the hazards of being associated with me is that my subconscious might file away details of your life that later resurface in my writing (#sorrynotsorry!). Like in this story, “The Dark Sign”. If you want to wrangle this monster anthology (that includes monster stories like mine!), head to Amazon. Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Reading: “Look What You Made Me Do”

    Have you ever just wanted to kill your spouse/parnter/significant other? Can you never do anything right? Do they just nag and nag at you? What if you just snapped one day? In “Look What You Made Me Do”, he does. Let me tell you the story. Find the book on Amazon. Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Pride and Representation

    Pride and Representation

    My approach to representation in my writing has evolved lately, deliberately, and I can acknowledge that I don’t think I handled it correctly my entire writing career. Hell, I still don’t know that I have it figured out.

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  • Savages Apocalypse Years Later

    New mic, who this? Darth Vader, apparently 😆 I wrote Savages amidst the post-apocalyptic zombie craze. How do I feel about it years later after a global pandemic and watching people freak out over toilet paper? And how do you feel about it? Find Savages here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C2T88RZ/ Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Savages: Inspiration in the Darkness

    Savages: Inspiration in the Darkness

    I don’t know why depression and writing walk hand in hand for me. Mania and writing surely do not, though I would love to fuel my craft with that energy. There is just a certain point in the descent, a certain shade in the darkness where my mind unfurls and all the words pour down…

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  • Collaborating on Screechers: 2 Authors and 1 Artist

    Artistic collaborations are not new. All authors collaborate with at least a cover artist, unless they are such an artist, just to produce a book. Authors get together to produce anthologies and even cowrite stories, novellas, or novels. As an artist, I love to collaborate. When two (or more) different inspirations converge, the intersection can…

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