Jennifer Jeanne McArdle

  I have decided to remove the following publication from my list of previous and upcoming publications on the "My Writing" page due to information I learned recently both about the possible actions of the owner of Hiraeth Publishing and poor business practices reported by other writers. This was not a lightly made decision as this was my first paid fiction acceptance and I really like this story, so I hope I can place it in a re-print market at some point. I have also suggested people submit to other magazines in this publishing group, which I now regret. I know that realistically there are bad actors in nearly every company we interact with, but when you get published, especially by a small company, I feel like the company does represent each of its authors, on some level in the indie/small publishing world, so you want to make sure you are surrounding yourself with good actors. “A Tale Etched in Stone” in ParAbnormal Magazine by Hiraeth Publishing Genre : Dark fantasy/fa

My sci-fi murder mystery "Narcissa, her Dog, and the Diary" is now available in the eBook Professor Feiff's Compleat Pocket Guide to Xenobiology. Purchase on Amazon here The collection contains over 30 stories about alien plants and animals. This story was actually inspired by reading about lichen in a book about fungus in  Entangled Life  by Merlin Sheldrake. I wanted to write a story about biology and about our relationship with dogs. I was also thinking, of course, about the myth of Narcissus and wondering if I could write a story where narcissism isn't necessarily "bad" but understandable. Content Warning : Some human and animal deaths (not very graphic), some characters with anxiety/mental illness