On the phone with Jeaniene Frost Me: I haven’t done anything for a whole week. J: I hear you. Dragoncon was a lot. Me: I might take the next week off too. J: This is so unlike you. I’m starting the new project next week. Me: But why? J: List of reasons that make sense.
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Happy Graphic Audio Anniversary Sale
The dramatized adaptation of “Magic Strikes: Kate Daniels 3” was released an entire year ago. Tempus is as fugit as ever, because it does not seem that long since I first had the full cast Midnight Games experience and was blown away! In my humble experience as the Mod who has been reading all your
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Many Thousands of Words
It is 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Texas this morning. Y’all, it’s chilly. Hehe. Why are your books around the 300-400 page range when they are so good and literally could be double the size and still be awesome and other books from other authors are 400-700 pages. You mention a word count limit. Why is
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The Time Between
We all have a routine that keeps our lives running. Get up, brush teeth, make coffee, drink a cup, get dressed, head out the door. Don’t forget phone-keys-wallet. We run our dishwashers, we sweep our kitchens, we vacuum our floors, and feed our pets. Being writers, we work from home, and our cycle of routines
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Housekeeping, Discounts, and Polls
We have some housekeeping items for you thing morning. Graphic Audio Innkeeper Sale The Innkeeper series is 40% off on the Graphic Audio website. From their promo Her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave
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Back From the Dragoncon 2024
We are back from the con. We had an amazing time. The panels were interesting and well attended. There were many awesome guests. We said hi to people we haven’t seen for a while and it was lovely. We had two meet and greet events and I wasn’t sure anyone would show up, because our
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My Trope Fu is Stronger than Yours
“It’s a grumpy/sunshine book, and there’s only one bed! Eeeeeek!” Ever feel like book reviews or BookToks are speaking in a cryptic code that you can’t decipher? Something that goes beyond mere skibidi youth slang and “we’re-all-in-a-hurry” shortcuts like comps? There is one culprit for that, and it isn’t going anywhere: tropes. What’s a trope?
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Friday Foodies
“I live in constant terror that someone around me might be even a little bit peckish” said Nigella Lawson once, and honestly, she gets me. My Notes app is full of recipes that look good, my counters with food experiments, and my thoughts are occupied by yumminess I remember and want to have again. It’s
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Kate Daniels Quotes To Live By
Ilona and Gordon are leaving for Dragon Con tomorrow, and if you’re around you should go see them! Here is a post with their schedule, and you should also use the DragonCon app for last-minute changes. In the meantime, I thought we could all benefit from some wisdom. The world is confusing, and sometimes a
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Welcome to the Spamily
About three days ago I was CC’ed on a spam email. We all know what to do with spam. We ignore it, and it gets auto deleted. The people who were also CC’ed on this spam apparently didn’t know this. Instead they responded to the spam via Reply All. That reply then went to the
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Graphic Audio, Magic Rises and Plums
Happy Friday! Graphic Audio will be releasing the dramatized adaptation of Magic Rises (Kate Daniels 6) next Friday, August 30th. It will be released on the same day on all their retailing partner websites as well (Audible, B&N, Apple iBooks, Libro fm, AudioBooks, Hoopla, Orverdrive and so many others). There will be sea shanties, weredolphins,
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Dragoncon Schedule and Other Things
I will never, ever, ever work with SwiftPod again. Ever. 0 stars. -5 stars. 99% of my store stock troubles can be traced to this one vendor. Grrr. I finally got an answer as to the stock issue – politics. Apparently the political activists tapped out their T-shirt supply. Onto funner things. I promised to
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