The cover of my satirical fantasy, Blood Will Out (With the Proper Solvent), has recently been updated, including some amusing reviews on its back cover.

My essay went live as promised (or threatened) Monday, March 11, 2024 on Twenty-two Twenty-eight‘s e-zine. It’s dedicated to the person who inspired the piece, one of the most awesome women I know: Sandy Cohen.
You can read it here: https://www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/single-post/essay-standing-on-tiptoes-by-laurie-hall

Please note: my title was inadvertently changed in publication to “Standing on Tiptoes,” rather than “Staying on Tiptoes,” as I’d written it. The editor has graciously corrected it now. Although the link still says “standing,” when you click on it you will now see the corrected version.
Update: 3/18/24: Unfortunately, the essay was only available for free reading for one week. So to my Stories section to read the full thing.

“No Substitutes Allowed,” has gone live today as a reprint on Witcraft.org, an e-zine in Australia! My thanks go to editor, Doug Jacquier, for republishing it. https://witcraft.org/category/latest-wit/

For those of you who fondly remember my short story, “No Substitutes Allowed,” you’ll be happy to know that Wolfgang is about to reach the shores of Australia.
My bushy-tailed raconteur Wolfgang has since become one of my most beloved and memorable characters. The story was originally published by Thurston Howl Publications in their anthology, Difursity (Stories of Furries of Color), April 2020, and was later included in chapter 3 of my novel, BLOOD WILL OUT (With the Proper Solvent).
And now the story will air again Wednesday, March 13, 2024 in a new Australian journal, Witcraft: “The home of skillfully written stories that are brief, humorous and engaging, with the emphasis on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense.” Many thanks to editor, Doug Jacquier, for loving my Wolfie!

https://witcraft.org

Twenty-two Twenty-eight, a very cool, digital literary publication for “people who watch the world,” has accepted my essay, “Staying on Tiptoes,” and will publish it on-line Monday, March 11th. https://www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/ Give it a read! I think a lot of you will be able to relate. . . .

The second edition of my third book, The Potatoes of Defiance, is now available in hardcover. And there are three bonus stories! I call it my “Indictment Issue.” (Thank you, Stormy Daniels.) The sturdier cover will lend itself better to perusing while on the throne. 😉

Also available on Kindle. For now, I’m keeping the first edition available (for those who like that sort of thing) as a paperback. But that may change soon.

In case you missed it before, this is a collection of several of my short pieces (mostly funny) of social/political commentary. Though slightly larger than before, it’s still small enough to stow in your “library” next to your john, if you do that sort of thing. No serious investment of time is required, in other words.

My latest book, The Potatoes of Defiance (dedicated to the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE), has gone live as an ebook. And you can see the artwork in color!

. . . to help stop the holes, holes, holes in it. Knowing how spread thin so many people are this season, I had a serious talk with Santa and we decided, in the interests of good will, to lower the prices for the holiday period on both my book of Christmas carol parodies, A Most Peculiar Christmas (Songs of [J]Oy or Mirth (written under Laurie Hall), and my just released anthology, The Potatoes of Defiance. Happy Ho-lidays!