I’M AT BALTICON ALL WEEKEND! COME SEE ME HERE!
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: – LIVE! FROM BALTICON (Room 7029) 4:00pm EST. Come, hang out, eat snacks, and maybe even get some productivity done yourself.
- The Queery Helpline w/Patrick Hopkins, Hosted by Morgan Hazelwood – Back in June. Because re-writing someone else’s query is 1 million times easier than working on your own, where we’re fundraising for reproductive rights and giving back to the writing community. Every other Monday at 9:30pm EST. DM to details.
On Twitch:
- Or join the livestreams here on twitch!
Content Around The Web:
On Youtube:
- Con Prep: All the Things! – This year’s Balticon is almost upon us. And, surprising no one who’s ever met me, I might be a little overcommitted. But only because I like to hedge my words. I am completely overcommitted. I’m prepping: personally, as a writer, as a panelist, and as a staff member. It’s maybe a little too much? How are you at accepting your limits?
- Shorts (also on TikTok and Instagram)
On Season 6 of the Podcast “Writing Tips and Writerly Musings”:
- Tips for Writing Combat: Where Do You Focus? – Even veterans and long-time practitioners can have problems writing fights that are both compelling and realistic; how is someone new supposed to keep up? We’ll discuss getting experience with the weapons you’re writing about, how to handle pacing in brawls, skirmishes, and battles, and how to keep the tension high when your protagonists have to survive.
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On The Blog (In Case You Missed It):
- Con Prep: All the Things! – This year’s Balticon is almost upon us. And, surprising no one who’s ever met me, I might be a little overcommitted. But only because I like to hedge my words. I am completely overcommitted. I’m prepping: personally, as a writer, as a panelist, and as a staff member. It’s maybe a little too much? How are you at accepting your limits?
- Author Spotlight Guest: Author – , sharing writing tips and writerly musings with us.
Upcoming Events:
Balticon 2023 – May 26-29th, 2023 – Baltimore, MD
Imaginarium Convention 2023 – July 14-16th, 2023 – Louisville, KY
What I’ve Been Reading:
The latest Stoneheart Shifter book (#3) by Zoe Chant
Stoneheart Lion (#3)
She’s a shifter fixer who can fix anything … except herself.
Exiled from her clan, jaguar shifter Max is a P.I. who handles unique shifter problems. Incriminating photos, blackmail, mate problems? Max helps others solve their problems because there is no cure for her own loneliness. At least none that she knows. But she’s never had a problem like him before …
He never had a problem he couldn’t solve … until now.
After an unwanted shifter transformation, Gio is on the run, at the mercy of a shattered animal he can’t talk to, staying one step ahead of magical assassins who want to tear him apart to get at the secret inside him. He can’t fix this. But maybe she can: the beautiful woman with eyes he could fall into. The damaged yet kind and resilient woman that his unwanted, half-bonded lion keeps wanting him to touch.
The only woman who can show him what it means to have a true mate—if he can protect her from the danger pursuing them both.
New Works By Previous Guests:
New from Cass Voit/Sako Tumi – a kickstarter for the The Hotaru Graphic Novel Omnibus. The kickstarter closes at 10pm ET on Thursday, June 1st, 2023.
HOTARU is a story about a Japanese American firefighter and fire dancer turned vampire, and then thrown into the proverbial wood chipper that is vampire politics.
This campaign will fund publication of the first ever print edition of the Hotaru Print Omnibus, containing the three classic chapters originally published on the web between 2012-2020, plus two exclusive new chapters by original artist Sako Tumi, and other exclusive bonus material!
New from Cas E. Crowe
Wolvercraft Manor (#1)
A bride. A groom. A deadly curse.
Forced to attend her brother’s wedding, Saige Wolvercraft returns to her ancestral home, the house where her mother took her own life. Wolvercraft Manor is haunted. Or at least it is for Saige. The rest of her family thinks she’s nuts—a diagnosed handful. Worse, her ex-boyfriend and successful rock star, Jasper Young, is attending the wedding, and he’s the only one who believes her.
When Saige learns that a string of family deaths has occurred in the house over the last two centuries, she realises the supernatural is involved with the manor’s dark history. Not only does her bedroom window opens mysteriously on its own, but cries echo from the attic, and a seance goes disastrously wrong.
After a storm moves in, cutting off the family’s contact with the outside world, the bride starts behaving strangely. It’s time for Saige to investigate. The problem is she needs Jasper’s help.
As Saige and Jasper are drawn closer together and uncover more of the house’s secrets, they learn that something evil walks Wolvercraft’s halls… and it’s coming for all of them.
New from Astrid V.J.
Johara’s Choice (#4)
Locked in a tower with the fear of prophecy holding her parents back, Johara dreams of freedom. However, her time in confinement is spent well, researching the true state of her country. When she realises her father has ignored the importance of ancient ritual, Johara must find a way to break free and avert the gathering catastrophe at the risk of being stamped a heretic, or face the annihilation of her people and their way of life.
Haunted by the horrors of war, Erik has given up hope of ever finding anything truly worth fighting for. With the guilt of his past weighing him down, he’s unable to shake off what has been or move forward to a better future. When a twist of fate allows his path to cross Johara’s, everything changes and he begins to hope there might yet be a chance at happiness. But can he embrace life and the spitfire princess who never does as she’s told, running headlong into danger at every turn? Or will he let that, too, slip through his fingers.
Embark on a magical high-stakes adventure in this standalone retelling of Andersen’s classic fairytale, The Tinderbox.
Picture(s) of the Week:
Wearing my new mushroom tiara/crown, a mushroom dress, and a mug decorated in toadstools and a small snail, I decided to rock the “Mushroom Queen” cottagecore aesthetic on Saturday.
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