The Door - Flash Fiction by Rebekah Loper | RebekahLoper.com
June 9, 2017

This was originally posted on blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on September 9, 2011. This was written for one of the rounds of (sadly now defunct) Writer’s Platform Building Campaign. There were challenges issued throughout the campaign, and the prompts for this particular one were to begin the story with “The door swung open” and to end with “The…

May 24, 2017

This post first appeared at blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on December 4, 2012. Back in October [2012], I attended the Ozark Creative Writers Conference.  Daniela Rapp, an editor with St. Martin’s Press, spoke there.  While she represents mostly genres that I don’t even think about writing, she gave a very good workshop on the basics of publishing –…

May 14, 2017

This post originally appeared at blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on June 17, 2012. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.  And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it…

five confessions of an aspiring author, writer, writing, writing problems, Rebekah Loper, life
July 1, 2016

Originally published at blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on September 30, 2011. I’ve had one of those weeks – one where I set out to be super productive and ended up accomplishing very little.  I meant to have a short story edited and sent to my (new and many!) critique partners.  Didn’t happen.  There’s still tomorrow, right? Except for…

heart, keep your heart, diligence
June 19, 2016

This post first appeared blackanddarknight.wordpress.com on January 15, 2012. Keep your heart with all diligence For out of it spring the issues of life. ~ Proverbs 4:23 NKJV What does it mean to “keep your heart with all diligence?” Perhaps first we need to know what it means that “out of it spring the issues…

September 10, 2015

This review was originally posted, by me, at blackanddarknight.wordpress.com (no longer available) on August 1, 2011. Only the cover of the book and links for the author have been edited. One of my Wrimo’s has published a book!  (For new readers, I am a Municipal Liaison for National Novel Writing Month.  I have fondly dubbed…

About Rebekah

Rebekah Loper writes character-driven epic fantasy featuring resilient women in trying and impossible circumstances who just want to save themselves but usually end up saving the world, often while falling in love.
She lives in Tulsa, OK with her husband, dog, two formerly feral cats, a small flock of feathered dragons (...chickens. They're chickens), and an extensive tea collection. When she's not writing, she battles the Oklahoma elements in an effort to create a productive, permaculture urban homestead.