Mary Rajotte’s Blog Posts

June 2024 Intentions

June 2024 Intentions

Summer’s (almost) here and I’m trying to stay motivated, but I’m already daydreaming about running away to cottage country! Until I win a few million or pen a bestseller, I’ll still only be doing daytrips, which also means I need to keep at my projects. Before I share some updates, let’s see how I did…

COMING SOON: Shadowed Realms

COMING SOON: Shadowed Realms

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while but I can finally share that my story, “The Call of the Carrion Crows”, is going to be reprinted in Shadowed Realms, a reprint anthology from Holley Cornetto and Stuart Conover from The Horror Tree! ABOUT THE CALL OF THE CARRION CROWS A maddening melody enshrouds…

Expect the Unexpected

Expect the Unexpected

No, this isn’t an episode of Big Brother! But I suddenly find myself working on an unexpected project! If you remember my posts from way back in…February, I was trying to come up with the plot for the next Reaper book. But before that, I’d started to re-outline the first book. I felt the middle…

The Mary Factor

The Mary Factor

So, as I’ve been going over the Zero Draft of my 2nd witchy book, I started to see that a number of scenes are too similar. I feel like my characters are having the same conversations over multiple scenes. And if I’m bored with those chapters, readers will be, too. Over dinner on Friday, I…