Samples
"Welcome"
"Welcome" is a piece of flash fiction, the story of a safe place to survive... as long as you follow the rules.
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Published Works
How I Planned my Fitness Competition Diet
(Medium, 2019)
All you need is a calculator, a nutrient values resource and a food scale
Tales of Sley House 2021 (as Ed.)
202 pages
ISBN: 9781737310228
Publication date: December 13, 2021
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
Available at major retailers
A collection of genre fiction from exciting new voices
Those women in the magazines did a job on my head — after all, I was one of them
What if the Unrealistic Body Image I'm Chasing is My Own? (Medium, 2019)
Ground Control
335 pages
ISBN: 9781737310266
Publication date: May 17, 2022
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
Available at major retailers
Novel: Speculative fiction
A Hot Metabolism on a Cold Day
(Medium, 2021)
Are there any real benefits to cold-weather exercise?
Tales of Sley House 2023 (as Ed.)
267 pages
ISBN: 9781957941004
Publication date: December 12, 2023
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
Available at major retailers
A collection of genre fiction from exciting new voices
"Don't Drink the Water" in Tales of Sley House 2023
Short story: Speculative fiction
Other writing on Medium @karenhoughwrites
Paper Moons (Speculative fiction)
Expected publication: March 11, 2025
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
Cate is fine, honest. She's 30, divorced, and loves her job, or would if there wasn't something very unsettling going on in the performance lab... This is a love story about accepting your family for who they are, picking up the pieces after bad breakups and accepting that it’s time to grow up. It’s set—mostly—in a dog park.
Status: With publisher
Coming Soon
Tales of the Sley Siblings Volume I (as Ed.)
Expected publication: June 2024
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
A collection of genre fiction inspired by the three Sley Siblings.
Novel 57 (Speculative fiction)
Nat’s stuck in a routine. Her parents are getting older. She’s in love with her coworker. And she’s living on a post-apocalyptic Earth, on which humans have only recently emerged from the safety of their underground habitats. Now, their growing colony is threatened with a mysterious new illness, and she has to figure out what’s really important to her, before it’s too late.
Status: Work in progress
And That’s When I Lost My Mind (Nonfiction/essays)
You know what’s weird, wonderful, disgusting, magical and horrifying? Motherhood.
Status: Work in progress
Works in Progress
Secondhand Toads (Urban fantasy)
Lottie has a husband who's always golfing, sons that don't want anything to do with her anymore, and a job in the school office. She also the power to magically transform her life into anything she wants. She just doesn't know it yet.
Status: Work in progress
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