Picoreview: X-Men ’97

Picoreview: X-Men 97: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH Ok, just to get this out of the way: this post will contain spoilers, so if you don’t want spoilers, look away now I loved it almost unconditionally, so I’m going to talk about the things I think they did wrong more than the ones they did right :D Okay? Beyond this point, spoilers are on you. Although I’m going to start by talking about the Chris Pine Star Trek movies, so you have some space to look away in. :) (There are, mind you, also…

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Agent announcement!

I have just signed an agency agreement with Jennifer Udden at the Laura Dail Literary Agency, and I am OVER THE MOON about it!!!! After an introduction through a mutual friend who thought we would hit it off, Ms. Udden and I spent a couple of months in email contact as I sent a variety of things, from completed manuscripts to very, VERY short book proposals back and forth, and eventually stepped things up with a vone call. Our mutual friend was extremely right: we did hit it off, with…

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Milford writing retreat

I was afforded the unexpected opportunity to go on a writing retreat in mid-May. It was a great success, but I have to start by telling you about the first time I went on this retreat, in 2019, which MIGHT have been the first year this retreat was held. That week, I wrote 41,000 words. Which is a lot. In fact, it’s enough that they said “we’re now going to use ‘murphy’ as our unit of measurement for this retreat forever,” which I thought they were joking about, except it…

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Stalking the Dead Storybundle!!!

I have been remiss in telling you about this Storybundle I’m in!!! URBAN SHAMAN is one of eleven releases (Two of which are box sets with multiple titles! A third of which has an additional novella! SO MANY BOOKS!!!) in this Storybundle, all supernatural detective stories of one kind or another! The first four books – Olympia Investigations by Sherry D. Ramsey, Death Coach by Sandra Wickham, Blood Kissed by Keri Arthur, and Dying on Second by E.C. Bell – are only $5 (or more if you feel like it!)…

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art blog: fat lady with ax

Arright, from my last Saturday evening art zoom, and I did the thing I was talking about, working from a reference piece, doing a freehand sketch, then a quick trace, then trying the freehand again. I like the energy of the first one best but the third one actually…turned out pretty well, even if it’s only blue lines. I didn’t think it was turning out well while I was working on it, but…it might not be bad, actually? The model is Lauren Ashley, working with Adorka Stock Pose Reference for…

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