I’ve listened to the entire audiobook of Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It was a good book. It had a lot of science. I did not like the way it ended! Yeah, yeah, I get the set up for it and bitter sweet and all that, but I did not like it. I didn’t want
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Music, Covers, and Fainting Fans
State of House Andrews: the copyedits for the Fated Blades novella are finished. It came in at 45,000 words so double the typical novella length. I will post more once we have the cover. Blog prompts, here we go. Do you have a favourite meeting with a reader or reader interaction? Something that marked you
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Bitter Betrayal Or Where are my T-shirts?
When Gordon was in the service – this was before we moved to Texas and I learned to make proper Texmex cuisine – I made Lipton soup fajitas. I don’t remember what flavor it was, since it’s been years, I think Spicy Fiesta or Red Pepper or some silliness like that, but basically it was
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Eh…
“Where did you get this?” Connor asked. “That’s not important,” Alessandro told him. Nevada leaned forward. “Bern, did you hack the MII servers?” Bern looked at her for a moment. Of course no Phone rings, local number so not spam. Our cells still have the Oregon area codes, so all spam comes from the West
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Choices
Yesterday. Editor: Marketing Blurb 1 or 2? Art Department: Cover 1 or Cover 2? Agent: Alien 1 or Alien 2? Kid 2: Sentence 1 or 2? Optometrist: Better 1 or better 2? ::sigh:: Quick answers: The map was made with Inkarnate. Watch Tulip and I is grammatically incorrect. Watch I do things is not English.
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Writer work
For reasons I do not want to discuss I had to make this map. Behold. ::rolls eyes so far that she can see her hair grow::: I suppose I will have to make one for HL as well for reference.
Stories From the Writer Desk
Sometimes when writers are working, our minds enter this strange place where reality is a bit distorted. Me: Canadian High Society. Google: Canada High Society, a community of cannabis connoisseurs. Me, very tired and misreading: A community of cannibal connoisseurs? In Canada? They are so polite, why in the world would they allow cannibalism… Is
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Adverbs and Proper Use
July blog prompts have arrived. If you are wondering how these happen, Mod R combs your comments and questions you send in and then compiles them for each month. You have very unique comparisons and metaphors when you write descriptions. Are they just things you come up with naturally, or do you have helping tools
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Assigning Genre: Industry Insiders’ Perspective
Hi. Here’s a question that will hopefully not be too troublesome. When marketing a book do you or the publisher or bookseller decide if the book is a mystery, or romance or science fiction or fantasy?Reason I ask is that frequently I am in a bookstore or library, I find a book in the romance
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Grumpy
I am back from yet another cardio test, this one involving nitroglycerin – ugh, beta blockers – meh, and contrast dye injected into me – never again if I can at all help it. I am so behind on everything. If you are waiting on an email from me, you may want to resend and
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Help, BDH, Help
Ilona: We could maybe do a series summary graphic for new readers? Me *about to make a mistake*: Leave it to me, I’ll make a mock-up. It will be brilliant! Live footage of my brain trying to describe the series I’ve read roughly Graham’s number worth of times: So I come to you, on this,
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Busy, busy
I’ve been working on this enormous genre post for you, where we interviewed all sorts of people and we have all but one person in, so it will go up soon. Phew. A word about fictional marriages in our work. The general rule of thumb is, if there is more than a ten year difference
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