But no Maud, sadly. (Sorry, FoME).

These aren’t normal times, but you knew that already. I won’t dwell on that here beyond saying things are as good as could be expected in my family, and I hope they are for you and yours as well.

Now then:

My latest story arrived on the 4th, barely an hour before the contest deadline:

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However and wherever you spend the day, I hope it brings you peace, joy, and ponies .

A twitter thread of emoji horses, assessed as actual horses is far more amusing than it should be.

Sun and Hearth is now complete! Go check out one of the best “Founders of Equestria” stories in the known world, which I had the privilege of pre-reading:

TSun and Hearth

• MLP: FiM
• Romance
• Drama

Princess Celestia and Smart Cookie have watched Equestria rise. They share a dream that’s entwined their hearts for two thousand years, and a love that’s given them the strength to see it realized. Now they face the ultimate test of that love.

• Celestia
• Smart Cookie

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I’ve come to realize it’s all Everfree Northwest’s fault. When I was first dipping my toes in the fandom waters, I stumbled upon the 2014 EFNW fan fiction contest on Equestria Daily, and soon afterward Lightning struck.

It’s just a couple thousand words, I told myself. It’s nothing serious. Whatever happens next, I am absolutely not going to sink serious amounts of time into writing fanfic.

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So much to do. So much to write. In that sense today is like any other day .

BronyCon was awesome, and renewed my interest in some pony writing projects I’ve let slide. But first, some highlights of the trip, because I can’t be bothered to put this into a fully linear day-by-day breakdown:

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Technically my last post was also about BronyCon, but oh well. Blogging with any rhyme or reason has never been my strength, and at least this means I'm blogging too much versus not enough for a change?

If you'll be at BronyCon on Thursday, come check out the panel I'm on with bookplayer and Epic Yarn!

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The BronyCon schedule is out, and the time and place to see bookplayer, Epic Yarn, and myself discuss that madness that is writing about/with/in-spite-of children has been declared. For better or worse, it's Thursday at 1:15. Throw ideas of things we should cover on the

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FYI, a new chapter of Where We Belong just landed. Normally that wouldn’t merit a blog post, but I think when I accidentally clicked publish and then un-publish the other day I effectively doomed this chapter to publish ‘silently’ today with no update to your feed. Sorry about that .

Do you like print copies of pony fiction?
Are you going to BronyCon?

If either of those is true, please head over here to take a quick survey of what you’d be interested in purchasing from the fan fiction bookstore at BronyCon! The same goes for anyone not attending the con but interested in buying books via mail order.

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