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Another quick update today - there are things on the horizon I'll keep for later since it's all early days still. But I did promise to keep you updated on where A Fine Mess is on the Brimstone Scale. (That very scientific writing tool I recently introduced.) So here is where we are as of right this moment: 
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This was supposed to be the post where I tell you all how Emerald City Comic Con is going. Ah, well. Not so much. We're still waiting for new dates for the convention. We shall see. :)
In Brimstone news, I'm going to start looking at A Fine Mess in relation to other Brimstone stories now. Current writing update: A Fine Mess has just reached one Hell for the Company long. I should do a chart or something...  This time next week, I'll be at the first day of Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. I'm a little intimidated. The show floor is hugemongous. If you're in the Seattle area and would like to come say hi or buy some books or yell at me for being mean to Julian, I'll be in the vendor hall: Mischief Corner Books: Booth #943 Look for the MCB dragon:   A lot of my energy has been going toward getting ready for Emerald City Comic Con, but I'm still writing. (Half a page, half a page, half a page onward - The Charge of the Write Brigade, if you will.)
The early Brimstone novels were all eight chapters long. It was sort of a joke, that they would all be eight chapters, no matter how long the chapters got. Potato Surprise - 8 chapters, at about 26.6K. Hell for the Company - 8 chapters, at about 22.7K. Fear of Frogs - 8 chapters, at about 32K (you see what started to happen there?) By the time we get to The Hunt for Red Fluffy, I had to add a ninth chapter and hit about 43K words. We'd gone from snackity-snack size novellas to a light dinner novel size. A Fine Mess is starting to scare me. I'm trying to keep the chapters a reasonable size, and I'm already at chapter five. This is nowhere near the midpoint of the story. Um. Well, then. We'll see how this goes... Last year, I may have gone a little overboard with the conventions and was away in more months than ones in which I stayed home. Um. Yeah. This year, I've decided to cut back a bit, but there are two definite and a third highly probable (we'll see this weekend.) #1 - Emerald City Comic Con Seattle, WA March 12-15, 2020 I'm going to be at the Mischief Corner Books table - booth 943 in the vendor's hall. There may be some points when I run away to attend a panel or a class, but for the most part, I'll be at the booth. :)  #2 - Flamecon Times Square, NY, NY August 15-16, 2020 This one's the probable. We'll see after vendor sign ups. Again - I'll be there with Mischief Corner if all goes well.  #3 GRL (Gay Romance Literature)
St Louis, MO October 15-18 I did snag a Featured Author spot and will be attending this year. No idea whether I'm trying for a panel yet - we'll see. :D So that's one west coast, one east coast, and one in the middle. Trying to spread myself out this year! This third Brimstone Journals collection took a while to get here, right? The publisher has encouraged me to have an exclusive longer story for each Journals collection and I didn't have one for Three until this past holiday season. Anyway, my slow writing process notwithstanding, The Brimstone Journals, Collection Three is now up for pre-order at Amazon. Yay! Release date is February 11, 2020.  The Brimstone Journals Collection Three Amazon Cargo hauler, brigand ship, privateer. Crewed by the exiled, the misplaced, the uniquely strange and even a certain government assassin. Together, they've faced interstellar criminals, the wrath of archangels, the threat of frogs, their own terrors, nearly deadly buttercopters, and government paperwork. Through it all, as Brimstone's inhabitants expanded from two demons on the run to a complement of eleven various and sundry beings, they've become more than crew. They've evolved into family. Join us now for some snippets from the characters' timelines, flash fiction shorts between the stories from Shax and Verin as kids in Hell all the way to events after The Hunt for Red Fluffy. The Brimstone Journals, Collection Three also includes a novelette in which the crew discovers that sometimes the simple task of holiday shopping is much more dangerous than it should be. Also, a small housekeeping note:
The Endangered Fae series may vanish for a bit on Amazon. No worries - the publisher is just moving to a new distributor so they have wider options for how books are offered to readers. Here's where we are with Brimstone things:
 Happy New Year to everyone! Here's hoping for a year full of more good things than bad! I see a lot of writers sharing their plans for the coming year. Here are mine:  Fine. Not quite that bad. But I have put the brakes on a couple of projects for, well, reasons and will be concentrating on Brimstone for now. Brimstone #7 has a title, a purpose and an outline I just had to toss out the window, but look for A Fine Mess in the first half of the year sometime. The Solstice Pudding is here! Available at all the usual places in both ebook and paperback! Part of Mischief Corner Books holiday collection this year, When Holidays Attack, it's fitting that you'll probably recognize a couple of nods to horror tropes in this one. :D  The Solstice Pudding When Holidays Attack Mischief Corner Books Amazon Barnes & Noble Kobo Apple Paperback: Amazon Chief Engineer Shandi Leavenworth has been crushing on Major Tyra Sur ever since she joined station staff, though the laconic customs officer doesn't give up personal information easily. A few scraps of information leads Shandi to the perfect Solstice present, until of course everything goes horribly wrong. Major Sur took the job on Onwa Station for the stability, the quiet, and out of a need to be useful. It's been all of those things up until the woman she's been quietly flirting with at the bar puts in a desperate call for help. There's no question they need to save the station, but Tyra's not so sure about saving their budding relationship.  Updated info on this year's holiday stories! Three are already available with the next one releasing this coming Tuesday. Some are also available in paperback!   Tricks, Treats, and a Spider (11/19) by Kassandra Lea (m/m contemporary, Halloween) Manny's excitement over the first Halloween in their new house deflates after vandalism and theft point to targeted homophobia. Amazon Kobo Apple Barnes &Noble Mischief Corner Books  Stealing Gifts (11/26) by Mere Rain (m/m contemporary, Thanksgiving/Christmas) Guilt over the theft of a rare book prompts Jarrell to risk returning it to its owner – and accidentally wakes him. Mischief Corner Books Amazon Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo Paperback  Wind Me Up, One More Time (12/3) by Kari Trenten (f/f fantasy/steampunk, YA) Natalie and Grace move with their mother to the city for safety, but the wheels of industry grind steadily in Verity and all may not be as safe as it seems. Mischief Corner Books Amazon Kobo Barnes & Noble Apple Paperback coming soon!  Ghosts, Gangster and Garland (12/10) by Jana Denardo (f/f/m poly paranormal, Yule/Christmas) Three monster hunters on a relaxing vacation to a lovely, snowy B&B find ghosts and dangerous hauntings waiting instead. Amazon Barnes & Noble Kobo Apple  The Solstice Pudding (12/17) by Angel Martinez (f/f science fiction humor, Solstice)
Shandi Leavenworth, chief of small craft engineering, makes a series of Very Bad Decisions while trying to attract the interest of her long-time crush. Links coming soon! |
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Angel writes (mostly) Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around queer heroes. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head, she has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate. |
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