Today is the release day for DEATH BY IRISH WHISKEY! Do you know what’s special about this book? (Go on, guess, I’ll wait.) (No, I won’t, never mind, I’m impatient.) It is my FIFTIETH PUBLISHED NOVEL. FIFTY. PUBLISHED. NOVELS. That’s a lot! A LOT a lot! One of the two items I remember on my bucket list* that I wrote when I was about 17 was “have 50 books published by the time I’m 50.” I admit that in that scenario, I was thinking of book #50 coming out before…
There was a discussion going on over on Bluesky about dealing with edit letters, and this truth came up: “Editors aren’t always right about the solutions, but they’re nearly always right about the problems.” That thread went on to discuss how the person quoting it, who happens to be KJ Charles whose books I read all of last year and who is also an editor, approaches edit letters; her approach involves suggesting ideas to fix the problems, because it opens the writer’s mind to the possiblity that the book could…
Not very much, and not going to stick, but very pretty in the moment!
It has been a fairly good week over here, work-wise. I’m working on my next paranormal romance, with about 10k on it this week, bringing it up to around 16K/25% done, which pleases me. I have a goal to finish it by mid-February, although (of course) earlier would be better. Beyond that, I mean, like, I’m only level 4 on City of Heroes, but I’m on level 4 in City of Heroes! I’m so happy! :) I have big plans for Saturday which involve alternating between reading a book, napping,…
Picoreview: Freelance: surprisingly cute! This is a John Cena vehicle on Amazon, probably an Amazon original, about a Large American Military Dude who finds himself protecting a dictator he very much does not want to protect, and it’s much more fun than it has any right to be. Like, there’s plenty of dumb, but overall it’s quite charming and has several laugh-out-loud moments. There was a bit where I said “That looks like X will happen pretty soon,” and almost as soon as I finished speaking, X happened, which was…