Flame Con is confirmed! The last one I was supposed to go to was in 2020. We all know what happened there. The organizers tried again for 2021 - also a no go.
2022 looks like the magic year for the convention to return to Manhattan. Freddy and I will be there for Mischief Corner Books - table number to follow very soon. August 20-21, Times Square Sheraton. It's a heck of a fun time with all the queer creators and fans - hope to see you there!
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A brief check in since I'm visiting my sister in the Virginia mountains. Shadow Run, which I started writing because I wasn't writing, has hit 30 episodes. I honestly thought it would be quite short. A short story. Perhaps a novelette. Ha. We'll see where we are when it's done. I apologize in advance for any cliffhanger episodes as we reach the dramatic climax. Rarely Pure and Never Simple is on track for a June 28 release. Hooray! From the Noblest Motives is swiftly approaching 50K - and is nowhere near done. I'm not even going to try to estimate a word count this time. I'm thinking around 65K? We shall see. Just got word this week that Quinn's Gambit has been translated into Italian! I don't know about you, but thinking about Val speaking in Italian makes me feel certain things, lol Linkies below - I don't see the Kobo version yet, but I'm sure that will be soon:
https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/quinns-gambit-italian https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gambetto-di-quinn-bellora-quinn/1141117253 https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Gambetto_di_Quinn?id=Z55hEAAAQBAJ&hl=en_US&gl=US https://www.amazon.com/Gambetto-Quinn-AURA-Italian-Bellora-ebook/dp/B09WKSQHGQ We have a release date for Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Variant Configurations 1 - yay! The first novel in the series will release June 28, 2022.
We should be seeing a first look at the cover in May, too. :D The second book should be following fairly quickly in early August, barring any disasters on my part. Rarely Pure and Never Simple: VC1 - June 28, 2022 From the Noblest Motives: VC2 - August 2022 In All Its Tainted Glory: VC3 - tbd (but there's a title!) Stay tuned for more news to come! It's almost time! March 8, Ryld gets to meet the world!
To celebrate, Bellora and I have some stuff happening :) Next week, thanks to Gay Book Promotions, we start our tour - interviews, reviews, Ryld's face plastered everywhere! (He would be quite puzzled, I think.) There will be giveaways, so visit the blog posts for more chances to win :D Starting March 1, here's the first week-ish of the blog tour : March 1 Gay Book Promotions @onceandbooks March 2 Lily G Blunt - INTERVIEW Sadie's Spotlight - INTERVIEW March 3 LGBT Book Promotions MM Fiction Cafe - INTERVIEW March 4 LGB Blogger March 5 Gay Book Promotions Blog March 6 Mirrigold: Mutterings & Musings The Faerie Review Lots of stuff happening for Ryld prior to launch date (March 8):
Go forth and sign up for stuff! :D A quick rundown of Where Stuff Is: Variant Configurations:
Ryld's Shadows: AURA 4
Shadow Run
Time to begin the ramp up to release for Ryld's Shadows. We've done a small cover release and now you know what time it is? It's ARC time! I have the book files from the publisher and will be sending them out to the ARC team. More instructions on that in the group. But this gives us plenty of time to do all the things. I also want to apologize again for the missed Shadow Run episode last Monday. Yes, I'm doing much better, thank you everyone.
We'll just have two episodes this coming Monday and I'm sure everyone's terribly upset about that. :D Serials have been with us a long time, as storytellers and listener/readers. The device of keeping the audience returning because they want to know what happens next was probably invented by the first epic poet. While some epic poems, like Beowulf, can be recited in a mere three hours - an audience would stay for this if the scop was a good one - something like the Odyssey takes about twenty-six hours, something much more likely told over several sessions.
(Did Homeric age poets indulge in cliffhangers? No idea. Fun image, though.) So by the time modern, written serials came about in the late 19th century, it certainly wasn't a new idea, just a commercially clever one - getting the readers to come back and buy the paper/magazine every week to see what happens next. Our serial fiction now can be broadly categorized as any story that doesn't conclude in one episode/book/installment, from daytime television dramas, to long-form stories in a TV series like The Expanse, to multi-novel fantasy epics, to bi-weekly updated webtoons, to classic serial fiction. It's all serialized - a story broken up into individual pieces that requires the reader/viewer/listener to come back for the next installment to see what happens next. Shadow Run is that last example - an old style work of serialized fiction where you get a short chapter every week. And, incidentally, I get a chapter every week since I'm writing as we go. I have chapters planned in advance, but unless I'm going to be away, I've yet to have more than two written out at any one time. Shh, don't tell anyone. There were choices to make before I could start writing - how long would the episodes be, when would they update, who would get the POV, what was the broad shape of the story - but I haven't dithered or outlined or over-planned. Here are three characters who get alternating episodes, here's the idea and wheeee! Off we go. Every Monday, a new episode posts on the blog, and so far I've been able to alternate the episode POV's between Zie, Essenin and Davitts. We may be coming to a point where that has to change, but we'll see. Each episode is approximately a thousand words long - sometimes they go a little longer when they have to, but the idea is that you can snap up each episode quickly on a Monday and get back to your day. Episode 1 is linked on the Home Page, and all of the episodes are listed out on the dedicated Shadow Run page, which also contains a running glossary as I make up words. Because you knew I would. If you're joining us later, you'll also find the link to the next episode at the bottom of each installment. I've tried to make this as convenient as possible, :D and do hope you've all been enjoying this foray into serial fiction, cliffhangers and all. Well, holy carrot cakes, the year's gone. It felt like forever and like it didn't happen at all. Whoosh. I'll get used to saying 2022 by about July, probably. I sat here grumbling the other day that I'd accomplished nothing this year. Sat on my squishy butt and did diddly-squat. Which prompted me to look at what I did do this year. OK. Fine. It wasn't a high productivity year, not like some, but there were things.
Not quite the wasted year, then, even though it feels odd to have such a long stretch between releases. Not all productivity looks the same - have to keep telling myself that.
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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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