You can now buy a bundle of all the books in The Iamos Trilogy direct from me, and for a few bucks cheaper than it would cost to buy them all individually! Of course, you may want to wait for Pride month to start... you might be able to get an even better deal, if you catch my drift... 😉 :heart_ace: :heart_sp_demi:
Looking for a contemporary #CozyFantasy series full of enchanted woods, hidden secrets, and low-stakes intrigue? My Northwest Magic series (written as @elisakeyston) may fit the bill!
The first one, Alexandra's Riddle, features a mysterious old house with secret passages, mischievous fae and a very light romance (I've had readers who don't like romance love it, and readers who do like it who think it's just enough!) https://www.elisakeyston.com/northwest-magic/
A friend of mine is looking for a short story she and her husband remember from grade school. She says it is not Asimov. Copious Googling hasn't helped. Her description of it is: "the story is really short, and it's about the unveiling of the latest advance in robot society (the planet being wholly populated by robots now), a self-healing, organically powered robot, and as you read you realize the robots have recreated humans"
As I just finished saying how mean I was to my characters... 😅 But I don't think it's very dark! The characters go through difficult situations and there are some gut-punches, but the story's not gruesome or overly violent, the tone is optimistic, and everything does work out in the end. I don't like stuff that gets too dark. Reality is bad enough.
I was reading this Tumblr thread and then it occurred to me how Scylla is the bubbly extroverted aroace 😂
Screenshot from Tumblr: User demonicseries: I made a graph. The graph is labeled "How lgbt head canons of characters are made" and shows a scale from really mean to really nice. On the meanest end is cishet, then proceeds in order: lesbian, trans woman, bi, non-binary, ace, gay trans boy, and pan on the far end as really nice. User cdfreak: YEAH THIS IS LITERALLY IT... User hyper-nico: #shy anxious person is ace and bubbly extroverted girl is pan?? #well what if we just switch it around? how about a series with a shy pan person with a firity exotebrb aseificgi rdmsmifystdbd
Latest finished #embroidery project, pattern from Clever Poppy and inspiration for the cute gingham fabric thanks to Carrie from the Clever Poppy Makers Academy group on Facebook
Yesterday among all the snow and ice, a hummingbird came to the lights we've got along the back of the house and decided to hang out there to try to escape the cold. I turned those lights on for him (they're incandescent so hopefully gave him a little warmth) and spent the day bringing the feeder in periodically to keep it from freezing. And in between that, I went to work! 1/
I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way, but I like the Lord of the Rings books because they're a bit gentler than the movies? Does this make sense? How do I explain this. Like, take the beginning. Bilbo doesn't just sneak off alone into the darkness, he's got dwarf friends with him and they travel together. It's just like... kind of nicer and less harsh of a world? Despite, you know, all the bad stuff going on 🤣
Another day, another close encounter with Big 5 publishing that skeeves me out. I just... blah blah, they're running a business, whatever. Their ethics are not for me. The older I get the more I realize I really was born to be the old hippie woman in a broomstick skirt living 100 miles from civilization, raising chickens, and quarantining myself from any exposure to people with MBAs
I realize I probably ought to add this because it might sound like I'm just sour grapes: I have never queried an agent or tried to publish with a big trad pub. One of my best friends was pubbed with Harper well before I even considered writing & had an AWFUL experience so I didn't want to go near them because of that. As I've worked in the industry in the subsequent years, though, I have continued to encounter Big 5 & am just very much put off every time I see them do something grody
Recently I listened to the #372Pages We’ll Never Get Back podcast episodes from 2018 about The #EyeOfArgon. For the uninitiated, EoA is a short fantasy novella in the vein of Conan the Barbarian that was published in the Ozark Science Fiction Association zine, #OSFAN, in 1970. The novella is hilariously bad, and thus developed cult status in the SFF community. This is all pretty well documented online. What I want to talk about is its less-documented author, #JimTheis🧵 1/
The fact of the matter is, we all start out writing crap. That’s how we learn. I know what my writing was like when I was 16. And I know why my writing was the way it was, too—I was parroting what I was reading and watching. And you can see that in Jim’s writing. Because it’s definitely a cross between parroting Howard… and parroting what his friends in were writing in OSFAN.
Which brings me to point number 2: He wasn’t the only one in the OSFA writing this way. 14/
If you read through the other articles in the zine, you see that everyone’s using goofy purple prose to talk about anything and everything. Part of the reason it’s so hard to parse the in-jokes is BECAUSE everything is dripping in the goofy prose. It took three instances of Loki being mentioned before I realized it was a car and not an animal. The secretary of the club is the Keeper of the Flame. The editor is Ye Ed. There’s an imaginary leprechaun in attendance at every gathering. 15/
What's the protocol on writing looooong-ass threads on here? I decided I wanted to write something about Jim Theis, spent today researching and drafting it, counted it all up and discovered it would be 42 toots long 💀 Do I just go for it and tell everyone to mute me until I'm done lol