Congrats! That's looks so fun! I'm excited to read.

A Publishers Marketplace deal report reads: A MANOR BEYOND THE MIST By Beth Cato Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy April 20, 2026 Beth Cato's A MANOR BEYOND THE MIST, pitched as weaving Arthurian lore and fae myth, in which an American photographer is lured to a remote estate in 1935 England where she realizes she shares a terrible tragedy with her fellow guests and that their hosts are not entirely human, to Marilyn Brigham at 47North, in an exclusive submission, by Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore and Company (world).

Good news!

A drawing of a frog holding a pond lily umbrella for a mouse. The caption reads, "your needs are not burdensome"

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe. Just like this great blue heron is doing. Not sure what kind of fish it has. It played with it for a while then swallowed it. #photography #wildlife #ECK #birds #herons

Congratulations! Sounds like a fascinating field.

The cover of ESCAPE: a Liana Brooks Sci-Fi Collection. The cover shows a silver spaceship above a planet with the sun rise in the distance and a nebula ahead with the author’s name, Liana Brooks, at the top of the cover.

Nine short stories: nine teeny-tiny escape hatches from reality. A chance to run away from worries, to explore the distant stars, to conquer death and save the world.

Take a chance, make a choice: a better future is out there.

#ShortStory #Collection #SciFi #Books

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Autumn trees with yellow and red leaves among evergreen trees.

Sign of the time

Writing plans were delayed by dinner chaos.

a man wearing glasses and a suit looks to his left Alt: Noh Sang-hyun wearing glasses and a suit looks to his left

I need Noh Sang-hyun to be cast as the next Clark Kent. I don't care which country, what language, or who makes it, but he needs to play Superman.

#Kdrama

If you find you make the same mistakes repeatedly (forgetting to intro characters, leaving out descriptions in action scenes, make all the paragraphs a uniform length, ect)... put that on your Editing List and stop stressing it! You can fix that in edits.

#LianaEdits #AmWriting

Treating someone differently because of who their parents were or how they were conceived is such an abhorrent thing. Kids are not responsible for their parents' choices.

I'm on E4 of #PerfectCrown and I just... I hate monarchies. This is all I have. My takeaway from this drama is that monarchies should be listed with dictatorships under Bad Ideas.

I don't want a romance, I want them to overthrow the government and give equal courtesy to all.

#Kdrama

In academia one of the most fu*ked up things is that we don't get paid for our publications. Did you know that? I could drop a link below, and if you're not signed into a university account, you would be prompted to spend 25, maybe 80 dollars to read an article I wrote that I got paid NOTHING for.

I have chapters in all these books, even did the cover photo for 3

You are getting random updates because this afternoon is full of random things.

A QR Code that, I promise, will not Rick Roll you.

Today I learned how to make a QR code in Microsoft Word...

How To Make A QR Code:
- CTRL+F9
- Type {displaybarcode “website” qr /3}
- space after Barcode
- space after the website “”
- space after QR
- hit F9 to close and create the code

#Publishing #LifeHack #PubTip #AmWriting

What’s the best book/article/essay people have read about teaching writing? Am working on something and I’m curious what others have read that have shaped the way they think about their work—can be practical, theoretical, even only tangentially related to pedagogy.

The cover of Even Villains Have Interns showing a woman with long, brown hair pulled back leaning back against a man with lighter hair, almost kissing. She’s wearing a sleeveless red dress, he is in a black and white suit with a bow tie. Behind them is smoky and dark, beneath them is the skyline of Chicago.

After the government labels Angela a Super Villain she winds up as a stunt rider in Hollywood where her path keeps crossing with the mysterious Arktos, a superhero that just doesn't seem to want to give her up.

#Romance #Books

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Meeting hubby for lunch and then off to the last away-from-home task of the day... babysitting for a friend who is teaching a class for medical students whose babysitter is sick.

Morning meetings done! Woohoo!

Before 11am!

That's impressive. I was not expecting to get out that early.

Yes, there is a bus going that way, but the cab is faster.

Congratulations!

Of course others do far worse, and a few are just unlucky in legal differences (gum in Singapore?). But, isn't it kind of reasonable... except how would the home country know... info isn't always shared.

Should countries cancel passports of citizens who break laws overseas? Getting a passport requires time and money, at least. Just thinking about idiots going abroad and spray painting Korean subways, or carving their name in Japanese temple gates.

Two more meetings done. Now to catch a cab to the last meeting of the morning... 🚕

I watched my father’s coffin lowered into the grave via a FB messenger video chat, with one sister holding the phone and the other on another screen. It was April 2021.

None of us has recovered. My dad’s brother died last week & all the old grief came rocketing back in ways I couldn’t foresee

One meeting done. Now sitting in the waiting room prepping for Round 2.

A fair-skinned blonde woman in a shimmery white ¾ sleeve top looks directly at the viewer with one hand in her hair. The lifted arm has a shimmery gold bracelet and a shining gem. Beside the woman is a handsome, fair-skinned man with dark brown hair and neatly trimmed beard. He is wearing a light blue dress shirt that is partially unbuttoned and a dark blazer over it. He is looking at the woman. In the background behind their shoulders is a city, beneath them there is Earth seen from space and the title Even Villains Fall In Love.

"What are you girls having for dinner?"

"Pizza!" Delilah said. "Daddy set the kitchen on fire."

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#EvenVillainsFallInLove #Romance #Books

Letting Meeting #1 commence...

Two Opalescent Inshore Squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) swimming together above the sand, facing towards the camera. The right one is higher up, with its mantle pointing a bit to the left and with is limbs dangling down. The left one is lower down, with its mantle pointing slightly right, under the other squids mantle. Its arms are together, but bent so they go out and in. They are both white with some black chromatophores with silvery eyes that have some metallic green above the eyes.

"Hey, we saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe."

🦑📷Jeremy_Jodoin (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)