Kelly A. Harmon's Blog

A pinned note to let you know that the blog is no longer regularly active. You may see the occasional new note here, but for the most part there’s no action.

Writing prompts have been moved to their own section on the main menu, but you can also see the entire list here: https://kellyaharmon.com/category/writing-prompt/.

I’ve been toying around with starting the prompts again. If you’d like to see that, leave me a comment!

I’m so pleased to announce that the fourth book in the Charm City Darkness series has made the finalist list for the eFestival of Words contest!

Open voting will take place until August 17, and winners will be notified on the 19th!

It would be lovely if you would be able to vote for my book! If you’re so inclined, the link is here: https://bardsandsages.com/efestivalofwords/2018/07/15/2018-finalists/

My short story, “Any Kiss Would Do,” has been published at The Pale Leaves Magazine on line.  If you like re-written fairy tales, you might like this very short story based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

I’m making some changes to my web site this year, the first of which is to move the blog off the home page. You’ll note that there hasn’t been much going on there in a while: I’ve been doing more editing and the blog has taken a back seat to that work.

The good news is, I’ll be co-editing four books this year. Four! Two have already opened and closed for submissions. (One will include a re-print of mine.) The books are: Re-Quest, a collection of dark fantasy, science fiction and horror, and...

If you’ve been on the fence about Stoned in Charm City, why don’t you try it as part of a bundle? It’s available with all the other authors listed below. For a minimum of $2.99, you get them all.

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Pockets of Darkness – USA Today Bestseller Jean Rabe

Scattered, Smothered, & Chunked – John G. Hartness

Stoned in Charm City – Kelly A. Harmon (Me!)

Rescue from Planet Pleasure –...

As part of my “obsession” with planning, I’ve tried a few planner subscriptions this year, using money I received for Christmas. I love getting things in the mail, so a subscription that delivered planning supplies right to my mailbox was doubly exciting.

A Cloth and Paper subscription appealed to me because they bill themselves as providing “luxury” planning supplies. The subscription was pricy: $100 for three months. But if I received quality, engraved, luxury items – as the advertisement s...

Just a quick note to say that I have a reprint published in Starward Tales II, a collection of short stories, poems, legends, myths, and fairy tales as science fiction. It contains my story, All for Beauty and Youth.

I share the Table of Contents with many fabulous writers, including: Monica Rose Song, D.A. D’Amico, squiddosnazz, Mike Lewis, Michael Harris Cohen, Virginia Frances Sterret, Eddie D. Moore, Richard King Perkins II, Dianne Williams, Robert Tokley, R.W.W. Greene, María Castro Domí...

The latest edition of Occult Detective Quarterly contains a new Charm City Darkness short story called Light from Pure Digestion Bred.

The story takes place in the time frame between Book 2, A Favor for a Fiend, and Book 3, A Blue Collar Proposition. This is important because in that time period, Assumpta is still demon-marked. How the mark works is key to the mystery here.

I won’t say too much more except in the story, Pournelle (the demon!) comes to Assumpta and asks for her help. Doesn’t g...

If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you probably know that I’m a planner nerd. So you have no idea how excited I was to win a contest on the Quo Vadis blog for one of the Plan and Note Planners. I’ve been coveting one of these for a long time, and this was a great opportunity for me.

In return, I promised to write a review of the planner and how I used it for bullet journaling. (But the fact is, the journal bowled me over with its quality, and the thought of bullet journaling t...