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/Twitch:
- Morgan & Friends’ Lazy Sunday Afternoon “Productivity” Stream: – 4:30pm EDT. Come, hang out, eat snacks, and maybe even get some productivity done yourself. (Morgan is on vacation, but Doc and Sako promised to hold down the fort, and she might swing by)
Content Around The Web:
On Youtube:
- Introducing Cozy Fantasy (#CapClave2023) – We’re entering the rise of the Cozy Fantasy! What exactly is that subgenre, and why is it becoming popular? Plus, theories about where it came from. Do you have any favorites?
- Shorts (also on TikTok)
- Query Trenches: Day 27 #querying #writer
- Preptober #5: Playlists! #nanowrimo #writing
- Preptober #6: Worldbuilding #writing #preptober #worldbuilding
- My Last Netflix DVD #netflix #story
- Preptober #7: I picked a project #preptober #wip
- Preptober #8: Characters #preptober #nanowrimo
On Season 7 of the Podcast “Writing Tips and Writerly Musings”:
- Writing For Young Adults – Does writing for young adults differ from other writing? If so, how do writers approach it?
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On The Blog (In Case You Missed It):
- Introducing Cozy Fantasy (#CapClave2023) – We’re entering the rise of the Cozy Fantasy! What exactly is that subgenre, and why is it becoming popular? Plus, theories about where it came from. Do you have any favorites?
- Author Spotlight Guest: W.E. Parker – A writing of science fiction comedy, they’re sharing writing tips and writerly musings.
Upcoming Events:
NaNoWriMo is coming…
What I’ve Been Reading:
Beware of Chicken
A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming????
Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. I’m getting out of here.
Farm life sounds pretty great. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you’ve got the strength of ten men—though maybe I shouldn’t have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster. I’m not used to seeing a chicken move with such grace . . . but Qi makes everything kind of wonky, so it’s probably fine.
Instead of a lifetime of battle, my biggest concerns are building a house, the size of my harvest, and the way the girl from the nearby village glares at me when I tease her.
A slow, simple, fulfilling life in a place where nothing exciting or out of the ordinary ever happens . . . right?
The Gossip and the Grump (#2)
He’s the last man I should’ve picked for a one night stand…
See that guy over there? The insanely tall, broad-shouldered, dark-haired, scowling, “I don’t drink coffee” suit? Surprise! He’s the new owner of my family’s mountain café.
The café that has been my life purpose since I was born in the kitchen there almost thirty years ago.
The café that he’s planning to completely gut and renovate for revenge against my family.
He’s also the funny, charming, irresistible guy I spilled all of my secrets to last week. During the hottest one-night stand of my life. As my dog would say, woof me.
New Works By Previous Guests:
New books from Jessica Turnbull and Alice Ivinya.
Purgatory (Celestial Plague #3)
The world is slowly being swallowed up by monsters and disease.
Ashleigh awakens with no memories of her past and becomes a pawn. The man who created the Sarjs calls himself a god and forces them to do his bidding, including her. She leaves her friends behind to follow him, but a part of her is still in there, fighting to break free from his control once and for all.
As Jenna’s injuries worsen, Cindy must find a healer who can save her. However, the cost of her survival is a painful sacrifice that leaves her permanently scarred.
Raya and Shannon go after Ashleigh, only to find that The Rot is spreading. It’s killing everything in its path and making the Sarjs fall ill before they too are consumed by it.
While Shannon and Raya try to stay alive amidst the chaos, Ashleigh and her rogue Sarjs band together to take down the god and reclaim their freedom. But can they take defeat him before The Rot kills them first?
The Golden Prince (Once Upon a Prince #3)
A perfect prince. An engagement to save a kingdom. Too bad it’s all a lie.
Prince Thomas has always been the perfect prince, but now that his kingdom is falling to famine, he must prove his worth and restore the blessing of Spring. All he has to do is find a mysterious woman from a painting and marry her. It’s a quest he’s been born for. He has everything: the looks, the talent, the perseverance. No matter what peril she is in, he will find and rescue her. And he’ll do so with style.
If Maisie has learned one lesson in her life, it’s not to trust anybody. Having been hurt countless times, she lets people see her mask and no deeper. Her practice at deception makes her a master thief, but now she is forgetting which parts of her are real. However, one thing is certain: she does not need any prince to rescue her. In fact, she needs nobody at all.
The hounds of Winter are gathering, leaving death in their wake. The famine is spreading. If Prince Thomas doesn’t marry Maisie, the kingdom will fall. But how can he learn to love somebody with a shattered heart?
Personal Project Status Updates:
For accountability, (and so you can tell I haven’t just been editing the same manuscript for a decade), I’m going to talk about my projects. I’m gearing up for National Novel Writing Month, and planning my next project now.
My Novel-length Works In Progress:
I’m currently querying my ‘Space Fantasy’ A Dream of Stellarships, I’ve currently sent out 15 queries this month and received 6 rejections. I’m going to send out another query letter in the next day or two.
My Short-Story Length Works-In-Progress:
Poetry Update:
Picture(s) of the Week:
I don’t just talk about Cozy Fantasy, I read it!
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