Kris Bowser

adventures in spirit worlds and shadowy dystopias

adventures in spirit worlds and shadowy dystopias

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Stars Fall Out--coming soon! book cover
Pumpkin Goblins book cover
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Gears of an intelligent universe

Synchronicity is when the universe gives you pears. Character names and coincidence.
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OCD and the enchiladas of uncertainty

My experience as a writer and human living in the often-illogical landscape of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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What I Wish School Had Taught Me about Operating as a Human Being

More than a decade and a half has passed since I graduated high school, and I still find myself rehashing all the areas that my formal education failed me. Sometimes...
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The Judgmental Advice Column: Friends and Movie References

If someone hasn't seen a movie that you like, it says everything about them as a person. The Judgmental Advice Column tackles friends who don't get movie and TV references.
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The Mom Box

I now exist in the narrow construct of The Mom Box, where my entire identity is filtered through a set of assumptions about mothers and motherhood, and it's surprising that I eat food and have opinions.
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The Little Badass Mermaid Anthropologist: Why Ariel is Actually Awesome

One thing I wasn’t expecting from The Little Mermaid? To find the title character herself even remotely interesting, let alone a beacon of competence and badassery in the midst of a literal ocean of incompetent and evil associates.
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Life lessons from Stardew Valley: keep your spouse happy by saying one thing to them per day and giving them a blueberry.

Pumpkin Goblins has a print version!

Pumpkin Goblins print copy

Yup, that finally happened!

And I took a a picture of it in damp leaves. For proof. Because I don’t know, maybe you wouldn’t believe me?

(For the record, no books were harmed in the making of this blog post.)

Finally getting the print copy up was the impetus for relaunching the book last year, but it was the only part of the relaunch I didn’t get to–and this despite the fact that I had the files an inch from ready the first time around.

The response to this has been awesome–I’m not alone in my old school preference for print! (Even though I’ve definitely been enjoying my Kobo Clara the last few months!)

But even better than people buying the print copy? Reading it to my four-year-old. This started as a mandatory chapter per night before I went on to read Little Blue Truck or Phoebe and Her Unicorn (which is a much more awesome comic strip than you’d think from the name!), but it’s now turned into something she looks forward to, and she’s been asking a ton of great questions.

Anyway, you can grab a copy of the paperback here.

What’s my reward for staring down my obsessive-compulsive disorder and going inside a Dunkin Donuts during the pandemic, rather than using the drive-thru?

Straws. As many freakin’ straws as I want. And napkins too.