Last week Gordon and I left for a much needed vacation. Usually we head to the Emerald Coast, the panhandle of Florida slightly east of Destin, where the sand is white and the water is a beautiful green from above but crystal clear when you wade into it. But this time we wanted a break
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Impostor Syndrome
On Saturday, Gordon, Kid 2, and I snuck into the Armadillocon as regular attendees to see Jessie Mihalik, who was one of the panelists on Impostor Syndrome Panel. Jessie wrote an interesting article about it. She’s right that imposter syndrome doesn’t go away with success. I’ve talked before about the golden carrot. A rider sits
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Overdrive and Libraries: Everything You Wanted To Know
Today we have the honor of hosting Gingko-girl, who is a member of the BDH and a librarian. She is here to talk about Overdrive and libraries. An Overdrive Primer for the Curious and the Frustrated Hello (waves shyly). My name is Gingko-girl and I am a member of the Book Devouring Horde. I am
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Stab, stab, stab
The good news: We fixed the issue that was giving us trouble with the current draft. The bad news: We fixed the issue that was giving us trouble with the current draft. The blog is getting about 25% of my brain power, because the rest is going into plotting scenes and conversations. This is probably
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What is an Anchor Series?
Two posts in one day. This post is made because I didn’t put things clearly on Friday, and poor Mod R had to suffer from my incompetence. Thank you to everyone for your supportive messages! We appreciate it. This post is for everyone who is worried that their favorites will be abandoned. What is an
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Biggest Mistakes
It was 2014 and we were meeting our Ace editor, Anne Sowards, at a convention. Over dinner, we pitched her a new idea: a retelling of the Three Musketeers but with dragons. We talked about it for a while, and what emerged from that conversation was that Ace was very interested in a continuation of
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No Content
Why is there no content on the blog? What happened? I’m struggling with our current project. I’m a sad sack of sadness sitting in a sad corner. It’s very frustrating creatively. The smart thing to do would be to publicly pretend that everything is fine and either quietly kill the project or trunk it. If
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Too Many Legs
The working writer dude has been named. I present to you Edgar Allen Prose, from now on known simply as Edgar. “It is truly my greatest honor to be given a name. Here I was, adrift, resigned to anonymity that is a constant companion of our profession. It haunts me the way it haunts all
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Things that Made Me Laugh
Mod R is taking a long weekend, so we are all unsupervised. I bring you things that made me giggle. A year ago Kid 2 tried to cheer me up. Unfortunately I was deep in some kind of funk, and Facebook has served up this memory for me. And finally this.
Store and Other Weirdness
As you can see from the previous post, we are still dealing with the store issues. The problems have slowed to a trickle, but I did want to make a small PSA. We are using Shopify as our store front and Printify as our supplier. At some point during the order frenzy, the two decided
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Hannah, please check your Spam Folder
::waves:: We sent you a few emails regarding your order and they might be bouncing. Your order was affected by a computer glitch and we need to confirm that you still want the items.
Name That Man
Dear BDH, As you know, sometimes we use certain writers to help us illustrate our blog posts. It has been brought to our attention that they need to be named. We will start with the fan favorite: Working Writer Man, the one we all know and love. Yes, we are talking about you. What are
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