HEIDI RUBY MILLER

CELEBRATIONS The 500,000 views celebration is in full swing here at www.heidirubymiller.com . I'm now at 506,000 and STARRIE is #51 free in all of science fiction on Amazon and #2 in space opera . STARRIE is still free until Saturday, December 24, 2016. Many thanks to my readers and fans as well as the multitudes of authors who have been gracious interviewees  since I began this site back in  2005 .  Here's another CAST YOUR CHARACTERS for the number 7 spot of all-time most-viewed posts (as of today), and this one belongs to my husband, Jason Jack Miller , and his award-winning novel HELLBENDER , part of the Murder Ballads and Whiskey series . Since Jason isn't one for shining a light on his own accomplishments, I'm quite happy to: Hellbender (Raw Dog Screaming Press) won the Arthur J. Rooney Award for Fiction, the McLaughlin Scholarship, and was a finalist for the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year in 2013. See who was cast for HELLBENDER...

EVENTS Had a great time at the 9th Annual Western Maryland Independent Lit Fest , hosted by Frostburg State University's English Department and Center for Literary Arts . Among the guests were Scott Edelman , Timons Esaias , Wayne Lockwood , Andy Duncan , and of course, Jason Jack Miller and myself. Here are just a few photos from the event, which we've nicknamed mini-AWP.

EVENTS 9th Annual Western Maryland Independent Lit Festival Downtown Frostburg, Maryland   October 24, 2015 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Frostburg State University Center for Creative Writing, in partnership with the Allegany County Library System, is excited to announce that the ninth annual Western Maryland Indie Lit Festival is scheduled for Oct. 24, from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., at Main Street, Frostburg. The event brings together editors and publishers with writers and educators of the local community. Panel discussions and roundtable sessions include topics on various creative genres, DIY publishing, self-publishing, promotion and marketing, writing local, and reading and writing online. In the days leading up to the Indie Lit Fest, we've scheduled several kickoff events: Thursday, October 22: Poetry Slam at Dante's Bar (14 W. Main Street). Writers of any experience level are invited to bring self-written poems verbally duke it out for cash prizes. $2 t...

EVENTS Thank you to Gerry LeFemina , Michelle Yost , and Nina Forsythe for honoring me as the guest at their May Coffee with an Author at Frostburg State University's Creative Writing Center . Of course I had some wonderful English Breakfast tea instead. Also, thank you to Jason Jack Miller , John Edward Lawson , and Daniel McTaggert for traveling a ways just to have some pastries with me. Not only did we chat, but I also read from "The Surrender," a flash piece originally published at Every Day Fiction then picked up for the 2008 Best of Every Day Fiction anthology; Ambasadora , my thesis novel from Seton Hill's Writing Popular Fiction program; and "The Islands of Hope," a short story originally published in Fantasist Enterprises' Sails and Sorcery anthology and recently resold to Galaxy's Edge , edited by Mike Resnick . This July I am part of the Nightsun Writers faculty and will be discussing Science Fiction , Fantasy , and Horr...