
It’s been a year of firsts for me. My first line editing gig. My first editor-in-chief experience. My first acceptance of another author’s story, and my first rejection too. My...

According to Yahoo!, and several other news outlets, rejection really does hurt. Physically, that is. Professor Ethan Kross, University of Michigan, Edward Smith, Columbia University, and unnamed colleagues conducted a...

Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.