By lucky chance, I have two extra tickets to the live Welcome to Night Vale show and don’t want them to go to waste. So — I am breaking my internet sabbatical to see if you — yes, you — want to go to the show tonight. The show is at 7pm tonight at the Athenaeum, 2936 N.
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My grandmother, Mary Elois Stephens Jackson, passed away this morning at 109 years. She had a good run and I know that she was ready to go, but I am going to miss her deeply. She was a wonderful, remarkable woman. Grandma turns up in my fiction twice. If you want to get a sense of
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Anna Kashina is joining us today with her novel Blades of the Old Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description. Kara is a mercenary – a Diamond warrior, the best of the best, part of the Majat Guild. When her tenure to Prince Kythar comes to an end, he wishes to retain her services, but bust accompany
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In all seriousness, this was a previously scheduled internet vacation, but after the past week? I’m really, really, really happy I already had this scheduled. Basically, I leave on the Steampunk Cruise tomorrow as one of the guests of honor. The internet is stupid expensive on board ship, so I was going to be offline
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So, Sean Fodera apologized and I accepted it. In the vein of continuing to use this experience as a representative example, I’m going to address things I’ve seen floating around the internet. “Why would you accept it?” I think he was sincere. If it had been a fauxpology, then, no. But, again, I think it
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Hurrah! I just finished the last chapter in Of Noble Family, book 5 in The Glamourist Histories. Those of you reading along, can go check out chapter 36. At 143,000 words it is the longest of the books and stupidly long at that. I say, stupidly because I was about two-thirds through when I realized that
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No, I didn’t write three chapters today, just one. But there’s only one chapter left and I want to see how these play when you aren’t waiting a full day between them. So for those of you reading along… Here’s Chapter 33, and the links to 34 and 35 are waiting for you.
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Apparently this was a two chapter day. So… those of you reading along, Chapter 32 is up.
If you are reading along, Chapter 31 is ready for you. And now I’m going outside where a strange ball of fire is hanging in the sky and melting the eternal snow.
“The problem is that the “vocal minority” of insects who make up the new generation of writers don’t scramble for the shadows when outside lights shines on them—they bare their pincers and go for the jugular. Maybe it is a good thing that SFWA keeps them locked up. The newer members who Scalzi et al.
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Rhiannon Held is joining us today with her novel Reflected. Here’s the publisher’s description. Rhiannon Held continues the secret lives of the werewolf packs that live and hunt alongside human society in Reflected, the third book of the series that began with her debut novel, Silver. Silver and her mate Andrew Dare are pack leaders of the
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So for those of you reading along, Chapter 29 is ready for you. Since I have a ton of new followers (hello!) let me explain what this is. I have people read along as I’m working on my novels because I find the feedback useful. This is Of Noble Family, the fifth book in The Glamourist Histories. I’ve
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For those of you who haven’t been following this, and I’m glad you haven’t, here is an article from The Daily Dot for backstory. The short form is that some people said some not nice things about me in a public space, and the story has been picked up as an example of sexism in
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I try to take one day a week off the internet to spend with Rob. That is supposed to be today, and I have been offline save for one brief peek earlier. For reasons. BUT, I finished a chapter and so am popping in to quickly post it. For those of you reading along, Chapter 28