In Case You Missed it, here’s the round-up of all of my latest content, plus updates from old guests!
Read on if you want to know more. If not? See you next week with more writing tips and writerly musings.
Coming up this week:
On Youtube:
- Morgan’s Lazy Sunday Afternoon “Productivity” Stream: – 4:30pm EST. Come, hang out, eat snacks, and maybe even get some productivity done yourself.
- The Queery Helpline w/Patrick Hopkins, Hosted by Morgan Hazelwood – Coming up Monday, January 1/23/2023 – Every other Monday at 9:30pm EST. Where we take queries (or synopsis or first pages) and rework them live. Currently doing these alternating Mondays as a fundraiser for Reproductive Rights. DM/email one of us a receipt of a donation to a qualifying non-profit and get on our waitlist today.
On Twitch:
- Or join the livestreams here on twitch!
Content Around The Web:
On Youtube/Twitch:
- Facing Mortality: Writing Death and Dying in Fiction – Since this is supposed to be the most depressing week of the year, I figured it was the right time to share my notes on writing mortality.
On Season 6 of the Podcast “Writing Tips and Writerly Musings”:
- The Secret to Writing – Did you know there’s a way to take your writing from draft to beloved classic? Something often skipped when you’re learning all the ‘should’ and ‘should nots’ of the novelist’s world?
On The Blog (In Case You Missed It):
- Facing Mortality: Writing Death and Dying in Fiction – Since this is supposed to be the most depressing week of the year, I figured it was the right time to share my notes on writing mortality.
- Author Spotlight Guest: JR Konkol – an award-winning epic fantasy author, he’s sharing writing tips and writerly musings with us.
Upcoming Events:
ScribbleCon 1 – February 11th, 2023 – Manassas, VA
RavenCon 2023 – April 21-23rd, 2023 – Richmond, VA
Balticon 2023 – May 26-29th, 2023 – Baltimore, MD
Imaginarium Convention 2023 – July 14-16th, 2023 – Louisville, KY
What I’ve Been Reading:
I’ve been rereading Seanan McGuire‘s:
Spelunking Through Hell
For Alice Price-Healy, finding her missing husband isn’t just a mission: it’s an obsession, the thing she has willingly given up every other aspect of her life to pursue. And after more than fifty years, she finally has confirmation that he might be alive out there. She may even have a direction. Now, if she can just keep herself from getting killed before she reaches her destination, she might be able to finish her seemingly endless quest.
New Works By Previous Guests:
From Robert G. Williscroft, a new Mac McDowell book:
Operation White Out
Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying SOSUS arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica.
Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs.
Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain?
Picture(s) of the Week:
Catticus was being annoying and so I flipped his box so he couldn’t sit in it. It became even MORE enticing upside-down, so that wasn’t the punishment I intended — but it WAS super cute.
WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS 