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Thursday News Bites -Sangue Scremato

11/18/2021

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Hey all! Look what's now available in Italian! :D
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Sangue Scremato e Versi Violenti

Carrington's rather pleased. All the Offbeat Crimes books are in the translation process over at Pride Publishing - currently into Italian and French. Hooray!
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Thursday News Bites - Things Being Thingy

9/2/2021

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Status updates this week:
  • Rarely Pure and Never Simple - no updates. Soon, I hope
  • Ryld's Shadows - working through the first edit and happy to have our editor back at Pride Publishing (hooray!)
  • From the Noblest Motives - reached a little over 15K. That's a quarter of a novel, right? Getting there, getting there.
  • Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters is on sale at Amazon this month for $1.99, in case you've been wanting to start Offbeat Crimes.
  • GRL pre-orders have closed so I could get books ordered - I will see everyone attending in St. Louis in October!
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Thursday News Bites - Pre-order Closing and a Sale!

8/26/2021

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First, quick reminders for anyone who still wants to pre-order paperbacks for signing and pickup at GRL in St. Louis this October:
  • Pre-orders for my books ends on Monday, August 30. This gives me time to make sure all the book orders get here on time.
  • Invoicing will go out on Monday and Tuesday, as well, so don't panic if you don't have an invoice yet.
  • Pre-order Form for GRL - the link in case you still want to get an order in before deadline. :)

Also, Amazon has chosen Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters for their September Monthly Deals. Normally, the book is $3.99, on sale all of September for $1.99. The publisher will be dropping the price at all other sellers to match. Yay!
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Thursday News Bites - GRavitational Attraction, Variants & Offbeat Crimes News

5/6/2021

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Well. I tend to go from no news to too much news. Fasten your seatbelts. Secure the lap bars. This is a bit.
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Gravitational Attraction - An ESTO Universe Novel returns next week! May 11. This is a reissue - aside from the glorious new cover and a few necessary edits, there have been no changes or additions.

Turk and Isaac are back in their fast-paced, culture clash space opera! Pre-orders are up now if you want to snag one early:

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Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Variant Configurations 1 is approaching the end of rewrites - and these are serious rewrites. Just about everything from some of the characters, to the order of events, to the worldbuilding, to the romance needed some help. (Don't despair, dear readers who enjoyed it before. It is, when it's all said and done, the same story. But I hope it's a better told, more compelling story.)

Some things needed more help than others. But once rewrites are done and it's in the hands of line editor, we should be getting a firm date from the publisher on the reissue.

Also - I can confirm that Variant Configurations will be a three book series. Some high level plotting has begun so I don't lose my way and there are working titles:

From the Noblest Motives: VC 2
In All Its Tainted Glory: VC 3


The goal is to have all three out this year. But I need to emphasize this is a goal and not a firm promise in case Stuff Happens.

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Offbeat Crimes is going through translation right now! Starting with, not shockingly, Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters, which has been translated into Italian and French so far.

Something to keep close for a bit, too, is that Offbeat Crimes is in the queue for audio as well. :D In the queue being the operative word. I'll probably have more news on that farther into the summer.
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Gelatina Al Lime E Altri Mostri

​Kyle Monroe, il suo irritante nuovo partner e i loro compagni freak del 77° Distretto devono imparare a lavorare assieme per fermare un crudele assassino che potrebbe perfino non essere umano.
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L’incontro con una strana creatura gelatinosa in un vicolo lascia Kyle Monroe segnato per sempre, svelando strane abilità che vorrebbe non avere e facendogli ottenere la riassegnazione a un distretto in cui tutti i poliziotti hanno abilità paranormali difettate.

Proprio quando sta iniziando ad abituarsi ai suoi compagni di squadra, arriva il suo nuovo partner. Alto, fisicamente perfetto e a suo dire senza alcun talento psichico malfunzionante, Vikash Soren irrita Kyle in ogni modo. Ma, per quanto gli piacerebbe odiarlo, Kyle si ritrova stranamente attratto da lui, e le loro non-abilità si intersecano in modi inattesi. Se riusciranno a imparare a lavorare insieme, potrebbero essere in grado di fermare il misterioso assassino che sta lasciando corpi mutilati lungo le rive dello Schuylkill.

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Gélatine de citron vert et autres monstres

Kyle Monroe, son nouveau partenaire irritant et leurs collègues bizarres du 77e arrondissement doivent apprendre à travailler ensemble pour arrêter un meurtrier vicieux qui n`est peut-être même pas humain. La rencontre de Kyle Monroe avec une étrange créature gélatineuse dans une ruelle le laisse marqué et changé à jamais, révélant des capacités étranges qu`il souhaiterait ne pas avoir et lui valant d`être réaffecté dans un commissariat où tous les flics ont des capacités paranormales défectueuses.

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Thursday News Bites - Offbeat Crimes Box 2

4/18/2019

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Hooray! The second Offbeat Crimes box set is out this week. :) 

This one has both of Alex and Jason's stories and the second Carrington and Erasmus one (though that's also everyone's since it wraps up the series arc.)
  • Feral Dust Bunnies
  • Jackalopes and Woofen-poofs
  • All the World's an Undead Stage
These are ebook only, but it's quite a savings from buying them separately.

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Thursday News Bites - Mage on Amazon, OC sets, Progress!

3/14/2019

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It's finally springy here while I type this, which puts me in a hopeful, green frame of mind. There are more daffodils this year, so my separation campaign has worked, though the squirrels seem to have stolen the tulip bulbs again despite the blood meal. Oh well. 

In writing news, because you didn't come for a gardening blog:
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The Amazon links are here for The Mage on the Hill! Up for pre-order now in all countries that I've checked (UK, Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands, Australia, Canada) and releasing May 7. 

Pre-order links are available everywhere else as well including, of course, at the publisher. :)

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The first box set of Offbeat Crimes stories releases this coming Tuesday at Pride Publishing. That's the first three books in the series for only $4.99. A steal if there ever was one.
  • Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters
  • The Pill Bugs of Time
  • Skim Blood and Savage Verse

The second set is due out April 16.

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Chipping away at the current WIP's.

Progress is ongoing for Detonations and Devotions: Lijun 3, in which Tally and Haru just have a lovely life and nothing at all goes wrong. (If you are screaming liar, liar, pants on fire! at this point, you would be correct.)

Also making good progress on the next Brimstone, The Hunt for Red Fluffy. Looks to be about halfway there? I gave up predicting word count for Shax some time ago, though, so let's just say we're at least a third, possibly more.
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Thursday News Bites - Offbeat Crimes Box Set

2/28/2019

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This is a fun thing releasing next month. The Offbeat Crimes series will be released in two box sets. This first one contains:

Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters
The Pill Bugs of Time
Skim Blood and Savage Verse


For a steal of a price, too. :D
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Also wanted to mention that the first industry review of The Mage on the Hill is scheduled in Foreword Magazine next month.

I'm both excited and quite terrified. :o 

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Friday Reading Day - Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters

1/18/2019

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Hi all! I had an open slot this week, so I thought I'd go delve into the backlist. I feel like I've read this scene before, but it's been some time and now there's Edgar. ;)
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Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters
Offbeat Crimes 1


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Kyle Monroe’s encounter with a strange gelatinous creature in an alley leaves him scarred and forever changed, revealing odd abilities he wishes he didn’t have and earning him reassignment to a precinct where all the cops have defective paranormal abilities.

 Just as he’s starting to adjust to his fellow misfit squad mates, Kyle’s new partner arrives. Tall, physically perfect, reserved, and claiming he has no broken psychic talents, Vikash Soren irritates Kyle in every way. But as much as he’d like to hate Vikash, Kyle finds himself oddly drawn to him, their non-abilities meshing in unexpected ways. If they can learn to work together, they might be able to stop the mysterious killer who has been leaving mutilated bodies along the banks of the Schuylkill
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Yes, the Rare Books Department is a place.

12/2/2017

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Erasmus shakes his head at me and tells me I've taken terrible liberties with his beloved Rare Books Department. (I have and I'll try to be sorry about that at some point.) It's only fair that I set a few things straight. So to speak.

The Rare Books Department is an actual place in the main branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, located on Vine Street. Also called the Parkway Central branch, since its right there, visible when you're on the Parkway. Rare Books is on the third floor and it really does have a glass-door entrance with gold lettering and it really does house the stuffed and mounted body of Grip, Charles Dicken's talking raven, in a glass case. As an aside, Grip is said to be the inspiration for the raven in Edgar Allen Poe's poem. Maybe? But the neon raven in Offbeat Crimes is called Edgar for the poet, so there's some kind of completed circle there.

While the staff in Rare Books takes great care for their collection, I've probably understated their public outreach efforts in the stories. The department is there, as its web page states, to serve the people of Philadelphia, as well as the students, scholars, and researchers who use its collections. Daily tours, exhibitions, and classes help to open the department’s collections to a wider public.

You can visit for tours Monday through Saturday, starting at 11am. You can make appointments for research in the reading room Monday through Friday. You can see the Elkins room, which was given to the library by William Elkins, who not only donated his books, but his actual library.

And, yes, they really do have an outstanding collection of Beatrix Potter illustrations and sketches with, I'm sure, an expert in her work whom I so ungraciously shoved aside to give the job to Erasmus. I very much doubt that they have locked cabinets of spell books, but how would I know? Maybe it's in the back somewhere.

They do plenty of special exhibitions as well. The current one as of this writing is "Big and Small, Books For All," of extraordinary books selected for their extreme sizes and unusual shapes, which runs until March 2018.
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It's such an unusual and wonderful place, I couldn't possibly have made it up. For more information, please see their web page and go visit when you can.
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/rarebooks
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Thursday News Bites - Where's Charon? And Several Other Things

11/30/2017

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OK - so I'm not quite there yet. I'd hoped to have the next Brandywine story done by month end. It's close - at 48K for the word count and climbing, just not quite finished yet. Charon and Azeban's story will be completed soon, though. Then off to the beta to rip and shred. Pack Up The Moon - coming soon. :D
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Azeban The Innocent
Next - The Holiday Stories Are Here! 

Releases begin this week for A Holiday To Remember and continue until 12/30! For all the details, check the Mischief Corner Books website, where there's a lovely cover slideshow.

A Holiday To Remember

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Also, All The World's An Undead Stage has gone on tour! Blog tour, that is. Look for interviews with characters you might not expect, columns from me and one original flash prequel piece. :D

My Fiction Nook - a little post on the theme of family in Offbeat Crimes
Hearts On Fire - Officer Krisk Would Like A Word 
The Novel Approach - a post on who the cast should reflect the setting :)
Love Bytes - an extra special flash fiction prequel with Pecca Teecosi
Anna Butler - a post about the Walnut Lane Bridge (you'll thank me later)
Jessie G. Books - paranormal vs urban fantasy (or You Got Vampires In My UF)

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