First things first: whether you celebrate Christmas or any other holidays, or just want a pick me up during this unseasonably warm and wet winter, we want to let you know that there might be something fun for you on the blog this Friday. Now onto a more personal matter. I hesitated about sharing this,
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
By now some of you have probably heard about the Cait Corrain controversy. To summarize the facts: Cait Corrain was a debut romantasy author. Was being an operative term here. Cait Corrain seems to have dealt with her pre-release anxiety by creating numerous fake accounts on Goodreads and using them to trash the books of
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Tenses, Distance, and Persons
I don’t understand all the tenses… No worries, let’s clear this up. POV, point of view, is the perspective from which the story is told to us. It is characterized by three things: person, distance, and tense. Person POV can be first person, second person, or third person. First person First person uses pronoun I.
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Present Tenses and Unhappy Endings
I wonder about how more and more books are being written in the present tense. I have a hard time getting into something written that way. Past tense is where it’s at for me and I’m so glad you write that way. Maybe I’m just getting old, but what’s up with that? I’m not sure
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Meh
Magic Bleeds and Bloopers
GA Magic Bleeds is out on Audible today (and all other retailers). For those who don’t know what GA does, they turns books into audio plays – each character is voiced by a different actor and there are sound effects. It is my favorite way to listen to audiobooks now. I am addicted. Highly recommend.
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Comfort Reads
A post about BDH’s favorite scenes and a small giveaway.
Happy Friday
I hope those of you who celebrate had a lovely Thanksgiving. Ours went well, peaceful and happy, with kids and friends. The Cajun turkey was predictably amazing. You are supposed to warm it up on a wire rack with the liquid juices it came with. Instead I poured some apple juice into the pan, and
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Rambling Monday: Maps, Names, and Weed Eaters
The edit of Maggie has landed in my Inbox, which means today will be all editing, all the time. What you see above is a work in progress on the map of the city. Becka is ridiculously talented and she has put up with all my insane edits. We are trying to figure out a
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Corporate Agility
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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Truth Hurts
On Book Clubs and Hot Takes
I start my Mondays with news, and today I found this interesting article from WSJ called No, I Don’t Want to Join Your Book Club by Betsy McKay. The article requires you to register unless you have a subscription. It’s a good read, but if you don’t want to go through the trouble of registering,
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