Interview: Lance Bush, of Challenger Center

  Lance Bush is President and CEO of The Challenger Center for Space Science Education. Challenger Center and its global network of Challenger Learning Centers use space-themed simulated learning and role-playing strategies to help students bring their classroom studies to life and cultivate skills needed for future success, such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication and teamwork….

Story spotlight: “Abby Crumb: Bad Luck, Good Fortune” by Louisa Swann

Melting noses, withering limbs—growing up the daughter of a necromancer prepares one for almost anything…except a voyage around the Horn on a vessel that feels as if it has been cobbled together expressly for this trip… Creaking decks, smoky furnaces, torn sails, violent weather, the S.S. Raven seems to be attracting bad luck. Could it…

The Challenger Center for Space Science Education

The Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a non-profit education organization created by the families of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger. Challenger Center and its global network of Challenger Learning Centers use space-themed simulated learning and role-playing strategies to help students bring their classroom studies to life and cultivate skills needed for…

Story spotlight: “Lizards and Lying Men” by T. Thorn Coyle

    Dagger was working as as stripper. Less stress than the witchcraft her grandmother kept pushing her toward. Then a man in distress showed up at her favorite cafe. The lizards weren’t far behind him.       “Lizards and Lying Men” is in the Witches’ Brew bundle. You can learn more on BundleRabbit,…

Interview: Blaze Ward on “Pulp Speed for Professional Writers”

    Pulp Speed for Professional Writers is in the NaNoWriMo Writing Tools bundle, a collection of a dozen books on writing. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, a non-profit group created by the families of the crew of the Challenger shuttle. This bundle is only…

Story spotlight: “Contact” by Marcelle Dubé

  Every day, Kalupiak hunts farther and farther from the underwater ice caves of the People. Hunting has grown increasingly dangerous with the melting of the ice and the arrival of new creatures—none more dangerous than the humans. Legends tell of earlier confrontations with the humans where they tried to kill the People.   On…

Interview: Dean Wesley Smith on “How to Write a Novel in Ten Days”

    How to Write a Novel in Ten Days is in the NaNoWriMo Writing Tools bundle, a collection of a dozen books on writing. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, a non-profit group created by the families of the crew of the Challenger shuttle. This…

Story spotlight: “Like at Loch Ness” by Karen L. Abrahamson

A dangerous creature. A female scientist with something to prove. If she lives that long. Something dangerous lurks in Cambodia’s murky waters, destroying fishermen’s villages along the flooded shore. Jean Aubry, fledgling marine biologist, tries to solve the mystery, especially after she and her colleague find a lone, beautiful survivor of the most recent destruction….