It is 85 degrees Fahrenheit in Texas this morning. Y’all, it’s chilly. Hehe. Why are your books around the 300-400 page range when they are so good and literally could be double the size and still be awesome and other books from other authors are 400-700 pages. You mention a word count limit. Why is
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The Time Between
We all have a routine that keeps our lives running. Get up, brush teeth, make coffee, drink a cup, get dressed, head out the door. Don’t forget phone-keys-wallet. We run our dishwashers, we sweep our kitchens, we vacuum our floors, and feed our pets. Being writers, we work from home, and our cycle of routines
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Housekeeping, Discounts, and Polls
We have some housekeeping items for you thing morning. Graphic Audio Innkeeper Sale The Innkeeper series is 40% off on the Graphic Audio website. From their promo Her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave
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Dragoncon Schedule and Other Things
I will never, ever, ever work with SwiftPod again. Ever. 0 stars. -5 stars. 99% of my store stock troubles can be traced to this one vendor. Grrr. I finally got an answer as to the stock issue – politics. Apparently the political activists tapped out their T-shirt supply. Onto funner things. I promised to
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My Movers Might Be Wanted by the FBI
Sometimes summers last forever. This summer felt like it, a long marathon of hot days filled with work. We had gone to Florida on a short vacation what feels like a lifetime ago. So much happened. And so much of it has been, well, weird. We sold Maggie and worked on the edits. Still working.
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Monday Before the Storm
The release storm that is. At the end of the post there are the two new ads for those of you who are worried about missing out. We are finalizing the merch store, and I am hoping it will be ready in time for the release next week. We are doing both Sanctuary and Sweep
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Folding Time
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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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.
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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News We Missed
Happy Wednesday, everybody. Today I bring you some news we missed while on vacation. Jessie Mihalik’s Books and Broadswords Happy belated book birthday to Jessie Mihalik! From Jessie’s website: This novella-length collection contains the two stories that were previously posted as free serials on the blog (Books & Broadswords and Rocks & Rapiers) as well
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Audio/GA Audio Summer Listen Recommendation Thread and Confusion About Collector Edition
Woo, that is a mouthful of a title. This actually should be two posts, but the newsletter service cannot handle two posts in one day, so we have to Frankenstein this together. First, let me clear up some confusion around the Subterranean Innkeeper collector edition. We are a business. I know, this is shocking, heh,
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