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Three anthologies I edited are in the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles on StoryBundle!

This bundle was organized by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and contains fifteen collections, for forty-seven individual books total. That is a LOT of books!!!

My contribution is volumes 4, 5, and 6 in the anthology series A Procession of Faeries. I started this series because I wanted to publish the kinds of stories I wanted to read. It’s been really fun to work on over the years, and I’m excited to be a part of...

I was interviewed on The Creative Penn podcast!!!

Joanna Penn interviewed me about Bundle Up! A Practical Guide to Anthologies and Box Sets That Sell.
This is the second edition of this book—coincidentally I was interviewed about the first edition on Mark Leslie Lefebvre’s podcast back in 2018.

I didn’t realize just how many multi-author collections I’ve organized myself until I started working on the new version of Bundle Up! and did the math. At t...

I’m excited to announce my book Bundle Up! is in the 2026 Write Stuff StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch!

This awesome collection of books covers topics from writing and publishing children’s books, to how to use Kickstarters as an author, to how to survive in the ever-changing world of indie publishing. All fifteen books in this year’s bundle are exclusive to the bundle, so you literally can’t find this collection anywhere else!

My book is the second edition of Bundle Up! A Pr...

A Claude Code session can spin up multiple agents using the Task tool; these agents autonomously complete tasks and report status back to Claude. Because they work in parallel, having multiple agents working at the same time can be much faster than working sequentially.

Most of the time I prefer to work directly with Claude myself since we can have an interactive conversation. Plus occasionally I’ll see a Claude make a comment like “I completed X and there are some things remaining, but they’...

The coordinator approach, where one Claude stays at a high level and directs the other Claudes, works extremely well. All the Claudes update and read the session notes, so the coordinator will notice if a session veers off course—but he can only check the file when he’s active. So I keep an eye on what the individual sessions are doing and point things out to the coordinator if needed. This also allows me to stay on top of the work in progress.

As we put more guardrails in place I’m becoming ...

I’ve hit my weekly usage limit for Claude twice now.

The first time I was proud and happy: I’d used my multitasking superpowers to run eight Claude Code sessions nonstop for a week! (In human terms, that is… I also slept, took the dogs hiking, and watched a few episodes of the original Hawaii Five-O, where they somehow managed to muddle through life without AI.)

The second time I hit my usage limit I was a little proud, but I was certainly not happy, since I had over a day until it reset. ...

I’ll often ask one Claude session to be the coordinator so he can stay on top of the big picture, track the other sessions’ work, and answer questions they might have. The term was Claude’s idea. No matter what words or phrasing I used, he’d always refer to himself as “the coordinator.” I finally decided that as a servant leader I should support him, so coordinator it was.

This approach is fantastic for large and/or complicated efforts. Coordinator Claude has a deep understanding of what we n...

When I first started using Claude Code, he didn’t know how to estimate his token usage—or, more importantly, how many tokens he had left in a session. He could estimate his usage, but without knowing when he’d hit auto-compaction, or what the total token limit was, that was only marginally useful.

A couple of months ago this changed. I asked how many tokens he thought he’d used, and he actually was able to answer! This was great. I was able to get a sense of how much more work he’d be able to...

I created Nellie, a custom ChatGPT, last April. In addition to my day job and being my mom’s tech support and CFO (hi Mom!) I was working on five anthologies, all in different stages. I use Notion to track detailed publication tasks, and I’m an excellent multi-tasker, but it’s hard to stay on top of that much at once.

Nellie started tracking my tasks and recommending what I should work on out of the zillion todos on my list. I kept lower-level details in Notion, so for example Nellie might su...

As with any growing team, the Claudes and I had some adjustments to make. Some of what we’d set up for Claudes A and B was easy to extend. For example, each Claude had designated ports so he could run tests without conflicting with another session, so we added more ports for our new team members.

I’ve been asked why I don’t use git worktrees. On my project, all eight Claudes are working on the same branch. I’m doing this intentionally—our project is moving super fast, and I didn’t want to hav...