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I Made a Mistake… and Now My Book Comes from the Future

Thea van Diepen

I made a mistake. And it wasn’t a small one. I Couldn’t Believe It Earlier today, I’d been putting together an ebook for a short story that will be available for free to anyone who comes by my booth during the Edmonton Expo this weekend. It was when I copy-pasted my copyright text from Hidden in Sealskin and went to make the appropriate changes that I noticed it. Oh no. I opened back up the Hidden in Sealskin Scrivener file. I

The Hogwarts Houses of Some of My Characters

Thea van Diepen

After reading a fun Buzzfeed post wherein YA authors sorted their characters into Hogwarts houses, I decided to do the same thing. So there. Click on the images to see larger versions. :) From The Illuminated Heart The Winds (from left to right: East, West, South, North): Dagný and Finnr. Well, Dagný and Finnr’s big polar bear nose: From Hidden in Sealskin The book isn’t out yet, so here’s just a little teaser, featuring Adren and Nadin, the two main

Awful Story Outlines (That Made it into Stories), Part 2

Thea van Diepen

Not too long ago, I shared all the actual outlines of the planned story arcs for Kara the Brave (my webcomic). Today, I thought it’d be terrible helpful/entertaining to share the outlines for some of my stories that are actually now published in their entirety. The Illuminated Heart To be entirely honest, I wrote the outline for this one after I’d started writing it. I know. I’m really, really bad at this. Here’s the outline: Part One: God Has Left Me

The Liebster Award (I’ve Been Nominated!)

Thea van Diepen

Jean Schara nominated me for the Liebster Award, one of those cool blogging awards that are basically interview memes, and are a great way to find out about awesome people online. (Which means Jean thinks I’m awesome. Omg. Thank you, Jean!) Also, because I’m a geek, I double-checked what “liebster” means in German, because I recognized that it is, in fact, German. It means “dearest”, so the award is the “Dearest Award”. Which is really cute. :) Ze Questions 1. Who

Anime Your Characters: The ‘These Other Doors’ Edition (part 3 of 3)

Thea van Diepen

So, like I said in part one and part two, this story won’t appear in its entirety in These Other Doors. It’ll be teased at the end, if I still want to do a team up thing with the main character here and some (or all) of the main characters from the other stories. In other words, they’re all probably going to be part of the same universe. So this story goes here. Ghost Girl (code name) This story is