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 EDT. Come, hang out, eat snacks, and maybe even get some productivity done yourself.
- The Queery Helpline w/Patrick Hopkins, Hosted by Morgan Hazelwood – Next episode is March 20th- Every other Monday at 9:30pm ET, Patrick Hopkins and I take queries (or synopsis or first pages) and rework them live 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:
- Encanto and Making Your Own Characters 3-Dimensional – In both stories and the real world, people often find themselves cast in roles: the hero, the good daughter, the brat. But, people are complicated, and so rarely just one thing. As I find myself re-listening to the soundtrack of Encanto, I’m reminded of how often characters, especially secondary characters aren’t given the chance to become fully 3-dimensional. Here are 3 tips to help!
On Season 6 of the Podcast “Writing Tips and Writerly Musings”:
- The 10 Types of Querying Authors – For those writers trying to get traditionally published, there are about 10 general approaches, and some are better than others. Which are you?
On The Blog (In Case You Missed It):
- Encanto and Making Your Own Characters 3-Dimensional – In both stories and the real world, people often find themselves cast in roles: the hero, the good daughter, the brat. But, people are complicated, and so rarely just one thing. As I find myself re-listening to the soundtrack of Encanto, I’m reminded of how often characters, especially secondary characters aren’t given the chance to become fully 3-dimensional. Here are 3 tips to help!
- Author Spotlight Guest: D.B. Rook – a drummer, gamer, and author of dystopian tales of revenge and redemption! He’s sharing writing tips and writerly musings with us.
Upcoming Events:
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:
After spending most of last month rereading most of the series, the latest Incryptid book by Seanan McGuire came out on Tuesday.
Backpacking Through Bedlam (#11)
Alice Price-Healy gave up her life for fifty years to focus completely on the search for her missing husband. The danger of focus like that is that it leaves little room for thinking about what happens after…and now that she’s finally managed to find Thomas, she has no idea what she’s supposed to do next. The fact that he comes with a surrogate daughter who may or may not have some connection to Alice’s recently adopted grandson is just icing on the complicated cake.
So the three of them are heading for the most complicated place in the universe: they’re going home.
But things on Earth have changed while Alice, Thomas, and Sally have been away. The Covenant of St. George, antagonized by Verity’s declaration of war and Sarah’s temporary relocation of an entire college campus, is trying to retake North America from the cryptids and cryptozoologists who’ve been keeping the peace for the past hundred years. And they’re starting in New York.
Alice and company have barely been back for an hour before the Ocean Lady and the Queen of the Routewitches are sending them to New York to help, and they find themselves embroiled in the politics of dragons, kidnappings, and of course, the most dangerous people of all: family.
Getting “back to normal” may be the hardest task Alice has undertaken yet.
Book 2 of Scarlett Peckham‘s Society of Sirens series.
The Portrait of a Duchess (#2)
Once upon a time she married in secret… An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s rights—on the condition she must wed—she is forced to reveal a secret: she’s already married. To a man she hasn’t seen for twenty years.
Oh…and her husband is a duke. A horse breeder with a clandestine taste for revolution, Rafe Goodwood never expected to become a duke. But now that the title is his, he is plotting to shock the ruling class with ambitions of reform—and reveal the infamous Cornelia is his duchess. That just presents one problem: he must not fall in love with her—again.
Now they must resist the temptation to rekindle an affair… Although determined not to sacrifice her principles for passion, Cornelia is still drawn to the man whose very being threatens her independence. Hurt too many times, Rafe can’t risk love again—especially with the woman who once shattered his heart. But a conspiracy to upend the inequalities of the aristocracy bring Cornelia and Rafe closer, forcing them to finally decide what—and who—they hold dear.
And started rereading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton in preparation for book 29 dropping March 21st.
New Works By Previous Guests:
New from Charles E. Gannon, book 2 of his Vortex of Worlds series.
Into the Vortex (#2)
A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing . . . but knowing the full truth might get you killed.
Druadaen, Outrider for the once-mighty Dunarran Consentium, has proven that there are irreconcilable contradictions between magic and physics on Arrdanc, the world of his birth. And what is his reward for this important discovery, made against all odds and at considerable personal risk? Exile—organized and compelled by nervous temple hierarchs.
However, Druadaen remains determined to uncover what several ancient persons and beings have urged him to seek: “the truth of the world”—which might only be gained by traveling beyond it. Indeed, the mysterious Lady of the Mirror speculates that he might find the answers by journeying to the other side of her unusual looking glass: a reflective, ethereal portal that she calls a “shimmer.”
But there’s a catch: because the mysterious portal only allows a single person to pass through, Druadaen must leave his companions behind. Unfortunately, once he has, they discover that the “shimmer” only allows travelers to leave Arrdanc, not return to it. So his friends, led by stalwart swordsman Ahearn, resolve to find another means by which they can retrieve Druadaen—and with him, the truth of the world.
There’s just one small problem with their quest: the closer they come to finding a solution, the more obvious it becomes that various powers on Arrdanc don’t want them to succeed. In fact, they’d rather Druadaen doesn’t return at all.
So much so that they might kill both him and his friends in order to prevent it.
And, from Patrick Thomas.
We Will Fight in the Stars
Welcome to the future of the Agents Of The Abyss Universe!
Faced with the ultimate soldier’s dilemma, Major Hans Benedict and others of the 142nd Starborne chose honor over obedience.
After Earth is destroyed, the Behemoth is its last surviving Colossus-class. It is up to 142nd Starborne to keep the peace on the colony worlds, be it from alien invasion, vampire rebellion, or the darker urges of humankind. Among these soldiers are an exceptional mech warrior and one who must become like his military service dog in a truly unique way.
Join the men and women of the 142nd Starborne as they strive to protect what is left of humanity from the monsters within and without.
Picture(s) of the Week:
I got to snuggle some under-a-day-old baby goats on a friend of mine’s farm!
WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS 