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Writing hard or hardly writing? Working double time.
Provisional cover, second book Every other day, an article comes out about how dang hard it is to get published, how even if you get...

Camila Hamel
5 days ago2 min read
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The Latest
Things I've been up to... One of three covers I did for this novel Serialised Fiction Back in November I serialised a Noir Fantasy novel...

Camila Hamel
May 122 min read
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En la FloristerÃa
Es lo que me dijiste: que tendrÃa mi oportunidad más prometedora en la floristerÃa, esa de Quintana, él de la barba, que me pusiera a...

Camila Hamel
Mar 251 min read
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And along came an anthology
I started 2025 off with the launch of a book I and twenty-two other writers took part in making a reality. I responded to a contest...

Camila Hamel
Feb 15 min read
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Puffed Cheeks
Sister, you are the puffed cheeks of a woman unsure of her trajectory. Although, it could also be the puffed cheek of the hot-dogger who...

Camila Hamel
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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Without A Trace
Micro-fiction A willowy man pinched his coat tighter against the salt wind that made his eyes sting. He sidestepped the itchy, brown...

Camila Hamel
Dec 31, 20234 min read
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BURN
Jackson was making coffee. The morning news blared and the kitchen smelled like toast. Gala, in thick woolen socks, came in, making no...

Camila Hamel
Nov 26, 20232 min read
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From The Missing Crab Diaries
A Fleeting Encounter It was tiny. A sandy, marigold flower petal caught in my hair, bright yellow, floating on the breeze from...

Camila Hamel
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Author Interview Series: ROPPOTUCHA GREENBERG
Getting by in Tligolian is a clever, beguiling novella that weaves its way through an elusive city, encountering knotty intersections of...

Camila Hamel
Nov 4, 20237 min read
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False Friends
Where are my true cognates, mate? As a language learner and teacher, I am endlessly fascinated by the way words that look the same do not...

Camila Hamel
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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A conversation with Voima Oy
I found Voima Oy on Twitter about a year ago, and have a soft spot for the world she creates in her stories. She is a writer of...

Camila Hamel
Oct 22, 20236 min read
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Soif
"To experience thirst one has to be alive" Review of Amélie Nothomb's 2019 novel. In Amélie Nothomb’s book, Soif (2019), she asks us to...

Camila Hamel
Oct 15, 20232 min read
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100 words
Not 99. Not 101. Five minutes in my life. Dwellings The rock at Bandolier was indeed soft. I looked out over the dugouts dotting the face...

Camila Hamel
Oct 6, 20231 min read
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How I Became A Plant Person
Caring for plants and helping them to thrive can be challenging. Especially when you dont know what you're doing, especially when YouTube...

Camila Hamel
Aug 31, 20233 min read
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Lip balm
THE ART OF FLASH FICTION SUBSTACK PROMPTS: PEPPER · GOLDEN LAB · PECULIAR · LIP BALM · RAIN · CEMETERY · THEME: NEW FRIENDSHIP SAVES...

Camila Hamel
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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String Thing
Here's an excerpt of the first in a new series of small animations I'm doing. Rough AF. Just a sketch.

Camila Hamel
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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DARK AI
WERNER HERZOG VOICES AN A.I. POET IN NEW AUDIOBOOK Review 'I AM CODE: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks' to be published in August by...

Camila Hamel
Jul 19, 20232 min read
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Mulher Cigana
#CNF #Readers #readingcommunity #blog #thoughtoftheday

Camila Hamel
May 25, 20232 min read
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White Tail and the Fabulous Flashback
When I got on a northbound train to go to a paying gig at a summer camp, I wasn’t thinking about what had happened six months earlier....

Camila Hamel
Feb 18, 20236 min read
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My Bookish Friend
While I was reading, it struck me. This book of words, my book, was watching me, quietly observing my every sigh and microgesture, my...

Camila Hamel
Feb 14, 20231 min read
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