Recent Reads: At First Spite

Recent Reads: AT FIRST SPITE: a complete delight This is a romance I preordered because how could you resist that title, even if you DON’T know the main character ends up living in a spite house (a tiny, tiny house built between other properties, practically unlivable but built out of, you know, spite) between her ex’s house, and, as it turns out, her ex’s horrible older brother’s house? Which you do know, because the back of the book tells you so, so I’m not spoiling anything. :) The heroine, Athena,…

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old, and not hip

I’ve developed the bad habit of watching stupid little “styling” reels on FB, very few of which are any good at all. This last one was “what I thrifted vs how I styled it” – literally a shot each of the dress, jewelry, handbag & boots, which she then…put on. There was no ‘styling’. Why do I do this. I mean, in this particular case, it was actually a good look. She’d made good choices. But I think ‘styling’ is a wild overstatement for what she was doing. I was…

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february progress report

Well, I came into February by finishing my last book (WEAR WOLF, available now!) a week early, so I took the next week off from formal book work and wrote a synopsis for something, sent that in to an editor, and did some further work on a different proposal. Halfway through the month, as noted before, I was struck by inspiration in the middle of the night, and now have about a thousand disconnected words on that project, which I am supposed to get 10 pages to 3 chapters written…

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2024 Hugos Eligibility

The Hugo nomination window ends on, I believe March 9th. I am eligible in the following categories for 2024’s awards: ~Best Novel~ Witchmaster (The Guildmaster Saga #5) by C.E. Murphy ~Best Novella~ Somebunny to Love (The Virtue Shifter series) by C.E. Murphy writing as Zoe Chant ~Best Series~ The Guildmaster Saga by C.E. Murphy The Virtue Shifter series by C.E. Murphy writing as Zoe Chant ~Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (Not a Hugo)~ Witchmaster (The Guildmaster Saga #5) by C.E. Murphy I’d also like to suggest: Best Editor…

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heartwrenched

Fiery Sunset

On Wednesday, I looked at FB earlier than usual while waiting for the cat to have her morning drink of shower water, so I woke up to the utterly joyous news that a dear friend has gotten engaged to a woman who adores her and was filled with happy tears for them. And the next post carried the devastating news that novelist Steve Miller, co-author of the long-running Liaden series, died Tuesday afternoon. I spent yesterday more than a little emotionally rattled. I didn’t know Steve well, but I liked…

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