inspiration has terrible timing

I was very tired last night, and had a HUGE amount to do today, so went to bed at a very sensible hour, ~10:30pm. I then utterly failed to sleep for 90+ minutes. Shortly after midnight, having tossed and turned and gotten up to pee and to make sure my son had done his Pokemon for the day so he wouldn’t lose the 20 day streak he was aiming for for a task, I finally thought I was comfortable and worn out enough to sleep. And the first line of…

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Preorder: Wear Wolf

My next Zoe Chant paranormal romance, WEAR WOLF, will be out this weekend! Preorders are now available! Guys, I’m not gonna lie, I love writing the Virtue Shifters. They make my heart happy. Numerous readers have said they’re like reading a warm, comforting hug. I don’t know what else I could ask for, in this era of strife and stress. And I have so many ideas and plans for the world, I swear I just need a Tardis for a few months… (Well, I mean, I guess I only need…

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living ‘on the road system’

In one of the chat rooms I frequent, Snowqueen, a fellow chatter, experienced a small earthquake in a not-very-usual earthquake zone, and found it very disquieting. She does live in a Cold Place, so as she said, “I don’t know how people live in earthquake zones but I guess I live in a place where the cold could freeze your eyeballs so apparently you just get used to things.” Well. I mean. I grew up in an earthquake zone where the cold froze your eyeballs! All at the same time!…

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Guest of Honor in Orlando, March 2024!

Guess who’s going to be in Orlando next month? I’m one of the guests of honor at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference in Orlando from March 13-16, 2024! It looks fun and exciting, and I’m really looking forward to it! I’m sorry I haven’t made this news public earlier, but last year was so difficult that I wasn’t sure until quite recently that I’d actually be able to participate in the conference, so I’d been keeping quiet until I was sure I wouldn’t be disappointing…

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Picoreview: The Mitchells vs the Machines

Picoreview: Mitchells vs the Machines: did not finish This was one of those I’d been meaning to get around to seeing because the reviews were so great, so I finally started it, and…half an hour in, I paused it, read the Wiki, and decided that yeah, no, it was not going to redeem itself and I didn’t need to finish watching it. I 100% believe all the good reviews, honestly. The art style is fun, the animation is engaging, the characters are plausible, etc. It was subtly clear from what…

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