Terra Luft's Blog

I’ve got a short story in this brand new collection from The League of Utah Writers. My story, titled Tenuous Traditions, is one I wrote as a way to process a lot of feelings rooted in the COVID pandemic and which was extremely cathartic to write. I didn’t know if it would ever be published, […]

What does it say about 2024 that I didn’t even archive my list of books I read in 2023, and that I read 131 books in the course of the year? I’ll tell you what it says… it says that I used reading as a coping mechanism for the very intense year it was! When […]

Here it is! My book baby is officially out in the world with distribution at more places than *just* Amazon. If you want a print copy, you can get that, too. Here’s the blurb from the back cover: Humanity hunted to the brink of extinction, hauntings and possessions, lost loves, alternate realities, and more await […]

What a whirlwind the last six months have been! I’ve said for many years that I am too busy to act as my own publisher and that when the time comes to publish my novel-length work I will seek an agent and go the traditional publishing route where I have professionals every step of the […]

I have another announcement! I wrote a short story that won an Honorable Mention in the Literature and General Fiction category in the 2024 Olive Woolley Burt Awards, but was also just released in this new collection called “A Sixth Sense.” It is a story about a psychic but it is also a love letter […]

I’m super excited to share that I’m working on a little something. Okay, I’ve been working on it for a while and it is almost ready! I have published enough short stories over the years to put them all in a collection. Or, a more exciting way to say it, I have a book with […]

It feels surreal that two years in a row I was selected for inclusion in this collection but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. My story “Trail of Shadows,” which I originally wrote for an open call on the theme of writing dangerously, makes its debut here. It is a story inspired in […]

I love getting to announce new things. I wrote a fun story that not only won third place in the Romance category in the 2023 Olive Woolley Burt Awards, but was also just released in this new collection called “Tempting Truths.” Yes, I wrote a romance of my own type of flavor but it isn’t […]

This publishing news is extra special for a couple of reasons. It’s the first time I’ve been invited to submit because I was an award-winner, which was the criteria for inclusion in this curated collection. This collection includes my story “Fog of War” which was originally published in 2022 and subsequently won an award last […]

It’s been a little quiet around here, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been working hard on new things. Last year I wrote a very cool story that just released in this new collection focused on scents called “Trace Amounts.” I had a blast writing this one, and have no idea how to adequately […]