Tuna and Oliver had their annual visit to the vet for vaccines and physicals. Here is Tuna being the king of everything at the vet office. Tuna, predictably, was lovely to the vet, let his blood be taken, sat like a rock for vaccines, and has normal bloodwork. I would take a pic of Oliver
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Exclusive Samples of Burn for Me from Graphic Audio
The dramatized adaptation of Burn for Me, first novel in the Hidden Legacy series, will be released next week by Graphic Audio. GA expect a similar release schedule for Hidden Legacy as for Kate, with a new installment every couple of months or so. They will be adapting all seven books in the series: Nevada’s trilogy,
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Lit RPG: The Origins, The Inheritance, and Other Things
This is long, so table of contents: The Origin of LitRPG As everyone knows by now, I’m a massive Solo Leveling fan. I’ve read the manhwa before the anime was ever announced and then reread it several times. Right now, with the anime release on Crunchyroll (we are up to 2 seasons), it is enjoying
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The Inheritance Begins
Grace Draven and Black Hellebore
It’s no secret that Grace Draven is one of the best writers of modern fantasy romance. I could talk about her books all day. Her plots unfold against the backdrop of enchanting worldbuilding wrapped in lyrical prose. Her worlds have texture and that elusive fairy tale quality that many writers chase and never manage to
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Quality Content
Sookie, the old bulldog, has to have canned dog food in the wake of her surgery so her mouth can recover. She absolutely loves it. She gobbles it up, and then we suffer. Yesterday, as I was trying to catch up on a novella we are working on, because we need another release this year,
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AI and LibGen
::waves:: LibGen Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, etc., has developed its own AI, Llama 3. For this AI to be competitive with Chat GPT, they needed a massive amount of fiction. They could’ve licensed it – they have the money. Instead they chose to pirate it. They scraped a massive database of pirated books.
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Small Magics and Small Housework
The full-cast dramatized adaptation of Small Magics will be released by Graphic Audio on July 2nd and the pre-order is live on the GA website here. Audible and all the other usual audio retailers should have the preorder sometime in the beginning of May. The release will include the full content of Small Magics: extended
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A Secret Giveaway
We do not have a Hugh for you today. It’s been a very challenging week. My desk broke, and I bought a new one. I remember when standing desks were $3,000. I bought a height adjustable desk for $100. Then, when I finally decided to decompress and fire up Avowed, it helpfully warned me that
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The Story of Orc Dog
Before I tell you this story, I will say that everything ends happily. Sookie is our elderly Ye Olde English Bulldogge, otherwise knows as the orc dog. She is beauty, she is grace, how can you not love that face? She is going on 13 years old. Her hips and her knees have arthritis. She
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Magic Binds Samples from Graphic Audio
The Magic Binds full cast dramatized adaptation will be released on Tuesday, March 25th. The preorder is available on the Graphic Audio website, as well as on Audible and all the other usual third party retailers. Of course, we got sample goodies! What do you mean, ‘do I need cake right now‘? Kate. Beloved. We
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All the Questions
Mod R presented me with a list of questions. Let us get to it. When will the preorder be availlable? We don’t know. Well, that was easy. The usual MO is to wait until the cover is done because people tend to preorder in higher numbers once the cover is up. Maybe having the cover
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