Kids are here for delayed Father’s Day. We are still planning on family relocation to Florida and the Kid 1 brought home a fun game. Okay, you have to do this with me. Google your birthday, day and month only, and Florida Man. A funny Florida man article will pop up. For example, here is
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Starred Kirkus Review of Emerald Blaze
I am in a rare form this morning. I used common instead of come on in a professional email. And then, after Pam Jaffee, our Harper Collins publicist, emailed this review, I accidentally replied Dear Pam to a reader instead of using her full name and had to apologize. It will be this kind of
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Stupidest Thing I Bought
We all make stupid purchases from time to time and so I made one this Christmas. I bought Bombas socks. Bombas socks advertises itself as the maker of the best socks ever. I first saw the ad on Facebook. And then I saw it again and again, advertising “amazing” socks and “the most comfortable socks
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Clarification on Comment Policy
Let me rephrase: you have been very clear that you are not ok with nitpick comments re: typos or grammar. I thought you were ok with more overarching comments regarding plot or character. Your statement here seems to apply to all criticism. Is that true? Siobhan Typos Please do not correct the typos. The reasons
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First Innkeeper Pandemic Donation
In March we released the first three books in the Innkeeper series as a collector edition at a price of $0.99. It was meant as a gift, and we were never planned to make money from it, but it was faster and easier to release it at $0.99 than to release it free. This way
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Fox News and Watery Tarts
In an effort to extend their coverage of protests, Fox News decided to look at Reddit. They found this little nugget and reported it. The post in question, by someone name Kasplorge, says: “I didn’t vote for Raz. I thought we were an autonomous collective? An anachro-syndicalist commune at the least. We should take turns
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Camera Help
I’ve wanted a camera for years. I am a lousy shot, but I really enjoy taking pictures. Specifically, I like taking pictures of pets, flowers, and bugs. Sometimes landscapes. So I watched a class on artistic, painting-like photography, and I really liked it. The instructor was using something called Lensbaby, which is a type of
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The Redesign is Complete
The new website is up and running. Thank you for bearing with us during this difficult time. We were shut down for whole 6 hours. We would like to thank Aimee and Jayana of Anchored Design, who were amazing to work with. HIGHLIGHTS If you follow EMERALD BLAZE preorder link from the main page, you
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Shut Down is Imminent
The blog will be shutting down for installation of new theme shortly. We will be stopping the blog newsletter, because we will be moving things around and we do not want you to get twenty million worldbuilding posts. So if you come back and see that things are under construction, that’s why. 🙂 We expect
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Dragon Unleashed
Happy Book Birthday to Grace Draven, DRAGON UNLEASHED is out today. A dragon shapeshifter and a healer with power over the earth fight a corrupt empire in this thrilling and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance. Magic is outlawed in the Krael Empire and punishable by death. Born with the gift of
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My Nose
Late last night, Gordon steps out of the shower and opens the door. I am parked on the chair in the corner of the bathroom. Gordon, big smile: Hey there. Were you waiting for me? Me: Hmm. Can you walk into the bedroom, please? Gordon, in a towel, walking to the bedroom: Sure. What am
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Finances and kids
Financing a car. Me: You are financing $12,000 on a car. You have optional terms of 4, 5, or 6 years. Four years = $350 per month payment. Six years = $300 payment. Kid 1: Lower is better. It would give me more money left over from my paycheck. Me: Calculate it. Kid 1, whipping
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