yeah i know this is very niche and also childish and also by the time this posts i’ll be over it, but i don’t CARE, i’m PISSED at PokémonGo. PoGo is not a well-balanced game. Has not, traditionally been. It started with 40 levels, went to 50 after 4 or 5 years, and the grind to get from 40 to 50 was incredibly difficult, way way way too hard. You needed 5 million XP to get to level 40. You needed 176 million to get to level 50. Plus a…
The Ongoing Bicycle Saga has, I hope to GOD, reached its conclusion, she said in the wary tones of one who has been burned before. The goddamn thing was, as previously mentioned, clicking with every half-cycle of the pedals, and the chain went right back to falling off basically any time I shifted out of second gear. So in an act of last-ditch desperation I brought it to the other bike shop, who had been rude to me the first time I went in there so I didn’t want to…
Last week I gave Young Indiana the new Pokemon Z-A, which came out the week before. The next morning shortly after he got up, I said, “Have you emptied the dishwasher?” and he said, “I don’t know, have you run it again this morning?” I opened it and it was empty and, as I’d filled it at about 11:30pm the previous night, I said, “Oh! When did you empty this?” Indy, mumbling: right before i went to bed at 5 Me: What did you say? Indy, slightly more clearly but…
HEART OF STONE returns! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome (back) to the world of the Old Races as NYC lawyer Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn’t just wanted for murder – he’s also a gargoyle! HEART OF STONE is available in e-book at Amazon, and will be available in print by the end of the month. (Sorry, dropped the ball on that one.) Very excited to have this back out in the world and very much looking forward to bringing the rest of the series…
LAUGHS I have, for years, been telling the story of asking my then-editor Betsy Mitchell whether my upcoming book could have a woman with a HEAD on it, because the fashion of book covers at the time was for them to not. I knew the logic was that readers can identify better with women they can kinda sorta imagine themselves to look like (Betsy also added “at least on their best day, back in high school, while wearing an unnoticeable all-body girdle and just having come from the best hairdresser…