We are waiting on the edit of Maggie, and as I explained to my therapist yesterday, everything is too hard. Folding laundry? Too hard. Going for a walk? Too hard. Driving? Definitely too hard. However, some signs of brain activity are returning, so here is a tiny scene for you. “As you know, Maria, the
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Dye Woes
I have dyed my hair this morning with a new dye kit from eSalon. I switched from Madison Reed because apparently it makes your hair fall out and there is a lawsuit. The hair did not take the dye. It’s so bad that Gordon asked me what happened. I might have to wait a couple
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Scorpions and Dursans
Last night I made a late trip to the bathroom. While I’m in the bathroom, I see a scorpion coming toward me. Because it was late, I was barefoot. I have no weapons nearby except my cell phone. So I try to cautiously move away from the scorpion. I don’t have a lot of space
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Little Snippet
The largest aquatic animal in the Inner Sea, on the coast of which Kair Toren was located, hadn’t been determined because the ocean was deep and liked to keep its secrets. However, this was a world of monsters, and one day, decades ago, one of those monsters died and washed ashore during a terrible storm
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Snippet: Your Name is Shame.
Sigh. I can’t believe I am doing this. Okay, so it’s 2006. Magic Bites is written, but not published. We are not under contract yet. The book is in limbo, dying softly somewhere in the Tor slush pile before our then agent sent it to Ace. I’m alternating between the bouts of giving up and
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A Small Thank You And Other Things
Store First We have received over 1,500 orders. That is a lot of orders. A lot more orders than expected. We are going through each order individually, meaning every order is reviewed by an actual human before it will be put into production. If we see weirdness, we may email you to doublecheck that everything
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BDH: The Best Fandom Ever and Snippet
From the comment section: I bought the “Audio That Shall Not Be Named” and did get my credit back; I just placed a call as well as the return did not give me the option as to why I returned it. In my phone call I started with, “I want to tell you why I
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Inner Gollum
A Wednesday funny for you. Every writer has an inner Gollum. When they start a book, it’s all nice and Smeagol-like. “Look at this shiny idea! Isn’t it the greatest?” But sooner or later, Gollum comes out. “We hates the booksy! We hates it!” Why don’t you work on something else- “No! Our precious!” Here
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All the Snippets
Hi everyone, Mod R here. By request, today I bring you another collection of links to all the free treats on the website- snippets, shorts, character interviews and more. But first, a few admin announcements: Magic Tides paperback is now available for order from Amazon. This doesn’t mean it will only be available on Amazon,
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Small Updates
This has been such a happy but also such a busy week. I was going to just ramble about life, but I actually have some small updates for you. For those of you who missed it, the Frinndays are returning after the holidays. Audio and things Some people accused Mod R of withholding important information
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Guess the world
Let’s play a guessing game. Which world does this snippet belongs to and who is the main character? “… my second brother, Kody, but we call him Copper, because his hair is red, but mommy says that all of her brothers had red hair, but it turned blond when they got to be grownups, so
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Man on the Road
Happy Monday! Today you get an old snippet from 2017. This was a non-starter at the time from the business point of view, but now you get to read it for fun. We’ve posted it once before, but it had been taken down, and someone asked me over the weekend to please repost it. The
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