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Christmas Curry & "Jingle Blam!"
Odyssey always has homemade curry for lunch before game begins, since we run out of my house, and I like to make different versions over the course of the year. We have an established Thanksgiving curry with sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce, and we serve it over stuffing instead of rice. That’s an old favorite. This year, I wanted to try my hand at some Christmas Curry.
Tara Leederman
Dec 18, 202512 min read


Star Groomsman and Crimson Bride
The cover for Star Groomsman, created by me by layering and altering assets in the stock library on Canva, and the Starship Valkyrie logo. Release day is here! Mercs and Mayhem with my story "Power Play" released last week, and hit No. 1 in SFF anthologies on Amazon. You can get it here for some real merc action: Amazon.com : Mercs and Mayhem (Raconteur Press Anthologies Book 64) eBook : Nethery, Nick, Burke, Spearman, Stone, Dean, Malory, Lizzi, Ken, Hathaway, Ross, Gibson,
Tara Leederman
Nov 3, 20251 min read


Goodies: WordPress Newsletters for Authors, Plus the Opening to "Crimson Bride"
Normally on Mondays, I post a new chapter of my serialized novel, What Remains . (You can find the most recent chapter, posted last week,...
Tara Leederman
Sep 29, 20253 min read


Moggies of Mars and Writing for Raconteur Press: An Interview with Urna Semper
Phew! What a week… and what a month! For those of you who don’t know, I’m a co-leader for my writing group here in South Bay/Long Beach (a region of Los Angeles), which used to be a municipal group in the NaNoWriMo organization. We left the org at the tailend of 2023, when things were just popping off, and began running our own programming and writing camps. My job is largely the programming end—making worksheets, calendars, prompts, freewrites—and running writing sprints. A
Tara Leederman
Sep 26, 202522 min read


Star Navy SOS Recipe and a Peek into What Remains
From What Remains , Chapter 4: “Big Damn Hero” Today was Shit on a Shingle, that most ancient and venerable of navy grub. The Earth...
Tara Leederman
Sep 11, 20255 min read


Updates: What Remains Serializing on Ghost, New Anthology Story, and more!
I've been doing research forever, it feels like, to find and decide on where I wanted to start serializing What Remains . From sending...
Tara Leederman
Sep 7, 20252 min read


Zucchini Pancakes and a Peek into "Crimson Wake"
Generic Zucchini Fritters, since we haven't taken official pictures of this recipe yet. Yours will be crispier! Abridged, from “Crimson...
Tara Leederman
Sep 4, 20255 min read
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