And books are not like milk! They do not have an expiration date!
Or maybe they ARE like milk and some of them age into fine cheeses and some do not.
I don't know, metaphors run away with me sometimes.
I feel like one of the risks of this attitude is that if people don't get to a book within a few months of its publication, they feel shame or just don't end up reading it, because "the discourse" has already moved on
This is not WHY I wrote an upcoming essay about rereading in middle age, buuuuut
Like: the ancestors needed to get as much protein as physically possible out of that fish, that's why they used lye, I don't want to be wasteful but also we can use some of that material as compost/fertilizer, it'll be fiiiiine
I am Scando enough that I do not have to prove anything by eating lutefisk, and by that authority I release everyone else from the obligation.
Go, you are all free.
...most of these are super-recent, too.
he so cozy
...it's entirely possible that this response just taught some people where the stresses go in the word Menomonie.
In my house, Menomonie is known as "the city that shall not be named," because if I say Menomonie out loud, everyone else will go "doo dooooo doo doo doo" and have it in their head for the rest of the day.
(It's the first rest stop east of here, it comes up more than it would in other places!)
Hey, the audiobook of my Nebula-winning novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just SEVEN BUCKS! The deals lasts a while longer.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
sounds like knowing the right number of nerds to me
Start your day off with this gorgeous poem from CP Nwankwo in @reckoningmag.bsky.social : reckoning.press/once-i-retur...
This question is a perfect excuse to talk about what a travesty it is that prehistoric marine and flying reptiles don't count as dinosaurs particularly the always-amazing never-tiresome mosasaurus and in this essay I will
I always feel like they're basically saying, "I don't like what you do," and after they say it I'm beginning to think the odds are pretty good I don't like what they do either, even if I like their profession just fine.
Oooooh they make a very similar one with sneks in green and black
...probably still more suited to my coloring than yours dammit, I'm sorry
Thank you for writing it, buddy!
I'm approaching it myself. I'm in the phase of life he was in when I met him, and I basically always have that in mind when I meet new baby writers, because such small interactions can make such a huge difference.
Are you sure it wouldn't have been his 69th? I had his birth year as 1957. (Specifically I had him as "not even 50" when we lost him 20 years ago this fall.)
This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the first side side of the reversible dust jacket. Against a vividly pink background, flowers blossom and a small brown bird perches in a bush beneath a glittering tiara. The painted edges of the book show falling leaves and a tent made out of cobwebs. On the back cover of the dustjacket, being read by the bird, is a note that reads: Make it matter.
This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the second side of the reversible dust jacket. This time, Lorelei and Gerard are pictured together in luscious painted detail. The front cover shows her standing in the front opening of a large cobweb-silk tent, looking down on his kneeling figure with one hand under his chin, offering him a sword. On the back cover, they're kissing passionately against a woodland background.
This promo image for the OwlCrate limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen shows the foiled hardcover case. Against a pale pink background, illustrated swords, birds, chains of roses, and a crown surround the title of the book on the front cover. The same framing illustration is on the back cover, but this time it surrounds a snippet from the book: “I may be a mere mortal, but I do not break my vows.”
Hooray, the news is out: OwlCrate is publishing a limited edition of Enchanting the Fae Queen, and it's going to be GORGEOUS. Here are just a few pics (that don't even include the beautiful illustrated endpapers or the specially designed signature page or the bonus scene I wrote for the end!):
When I'm feeling generous I think the person overestimated their ability to filter.
When I'm feeling less cynical I think that setting up an "I'm the only one who TRULY appreciates your art" situation is sure a move someone could try.
Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱
I am SO sorry for the inconvenience and frustration. 1/2
(Frankly I can't really see knowing me even a little and assuming that the act of reading is EVER the problem, but even if you made that mistake, why make it twice?)
One of the problems I had with a former writing friend was that when I said, "I don't want to read the reviews of my work," somehow that went in as, "I dislike the act of reading, why don't YOU read them and tell me what's in them and also expand on your opinion of what's in them."
NO THANKS NO.
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Nomenclature, come on, fingers, wake up
Although now I'm wondering whether there's special naming in Nome that could be punned on there
One of my childhood camp counselors taught us to eat "Pooh butter" sandwiches--peanut butter and honey--which were mildly unfortunate in their nomeclature but great for my 6yo palate.
<3 <3 <3
cursed
@jrdawson.bsky.social 's new story in @lightspeedmagazine.com really got me with the last line:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hell...
Any of the above for me as long as it's not blandtasy
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