Why would anyone want to fold time? In the narrative, there are times when interesting things don’t happen, and the story skips forward. There are a few ways to accomplish this while still keeping the reader interested, but the most common way is the scene break. What happened here? Well, the character went to bed and woke
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Promo and Religion in SF/Fantasy
Tuesday our internet went out because Hurricane Beryl nuked Spectrum’s tower in Houston. That’s on the heels of our AC unit busting a leak in the evaporator coil. We have more than one AC unit, but yeah, half of the house is pretty warm. Gordon kept promising to sleep on the couch due to the
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Linguistic Patisserie
Hi everyone, Mod R here. Thank you so much for all the get well wishes! I feel much better, the antibiotics and painkillers have kicked in and I no longer want to saw my ear off, which is always a plus. I did spend the weekend emulating “some bloke called Les, who is really miserable
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Hurricanes, Awards, and Color Transitions
Happy Monday! This is going to be just me rambling post. It’s too early for coherency and I am on my first cup of tea. Please wish a swift recovery to Mod R who is feeling a little under the weather and had to wait to get antibiotics over the weekend. We are unsupervised for
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Lollypops, Part 2
First things first: We promised you the links to the place where you can order signed print copies of Sanctuary: the Blue Willow independent bookstore in Houston. Here is the preorder for Sanctuary and here is the zoom link for the release week Q&A event on Saturday August 3rd which will be hosted by Blue
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Netgalley Sanctuary ARCs, Sequels, and Sabotage
If you have an account on Netgalley, we are running a Wish campaign for Sanctuary. Anyone with an account can enter, and we will be giving away 100 ebooks to random winners. You wish for the book, and that wish might be granted. Here is a link to the Netgalley wish campaign. Signed Print Copies
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Luisa Preissler’s Print sale
We have some wonderful news from Luisa Preissler. We know many of you have been waiting for the prints and her print shop is now open. Those links again are: That Kate in blood armor, though.
A Giveaway
Hey, guys, we have some real life stuff going on, so no Arabella today. Nothing bad, just super busy. If you are waiting for the continuation, it will be some time next week. But I do have something fun for you today. We are giving away one copy of the Kinsmen Collector edition from Subterranean.
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Sanctuary Audio Preorder
The Sanctuary audiobook is available to preorder at these retailers (and more!). House Andrews have partnered with Dreamscape for the audio distribution once more, meaning it will be pushed to over 60 retailers in the US and internationally. So if your favorite isn’t linked above, give their catalogue a search and it will probably pop
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Karma, Crochet, and Books That Are Too Long
You know how we wrote that cute Arabella short? The cats have filled the fancy robotic litterbox overnight and then had a pee party. Thank you, Universe, and my husband, for the tile floor. I love tile. I love it so, so much. Then I logged into me email to find out that the our
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ARCs, AI, Agents, and Author Courses
Normally I stay out of the author and industry discussions. I’m too busy writing. But as I’m writing this on Saturday, Gordon slept in, and I can’t work on the explosion scene until he wakes up, so you get the tea. Here are some answers to assorted questions that floated into my inbox over the
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Lollypops, Part 1
German Shepherds were the best dogs ever. Period. Of all the German Shepherds in existence, none were better than Ophelia. She was smart, brave, loyal, and awesome in every regard. Except when she conned Leon into giving her unauthorized treats. My cousin had a pathological need to be liked by everyone. It’s not that Fel
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