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While I’m in a Good Mood…

I’m actually not in a good mood, just FAKING IT TILL I MAKE IT, y’all! So! Allow me to share stuff that makes me smile (or at least not barf): When I’m in a good mood, I love to mock

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My Cat Judges My Books

I did a video of Zulejka (my cat) judging my books (and one anthology) and just wanted to share her adorableness! It’s only 50 seconds long. Behold the sweetness that she is: That’s it! I am still puttering around with

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I Did A Thing!

Stupidly, I was discussing book covers with another author, saying that I prefer people on covers rather than the boring, non-peopled covers, and yet readers prefer non-peopled ones (the author mentioned had done a poll asking a FB group of

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Am I in a Freaking Book?

I feel like I stepped into the bad plot of a book. Here is what 2023 did to me before it ended: Less than a week before Christmas, my job told me they were firing me, intending to end my

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Story in Images: the Guild Dancer

HOOMANS, this is cat Zulejka here first to warn all you hoomans with kittehs out there who might not know this! I was playing with this long thin rope-string and my hooman left me unsupervised with it while she went

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Essence & Elixir: their story in images

“They should never have hurt you,” he said. NOTE: AI images were used in this blog post, but I no longer support the use of AI, nor do I use it, because I don’t like the extractive direction big corporations

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Super-Cat Strikes at Book Trailers

If you’re as exhausted as I am, here, have a 56-second-long video of my super-cat kitty-crashing my book trailer (she just can’t help herself) –> She stole that video! BUT! I have others that use ALL THE DRAMA! All. The.

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Seriously?

Anyone wanting a peek into an almost phobic mind fraught with anxiety, here are things my anxiety legit gets afraid of: Anxiety: There’s a speck of vindictive dust on the stove that hates you. Me: Dust isn’t vindictive. Anxiety: This

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The Knife Fight, the Mysterious Goats, and A Sweetly Smiling Neighbor

Re-blogging one of my favorite blog posts about a knife fight I walked into, the mysterious goats I kept hearing, and my sweetly smiling neighbor πŸ™‚ Happy reading! Everything I Can Possibly Cram into a Single Blog Post Alright, so

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What I’m working on in 2016

Anyone curious about what I’m working on this year? Here are the chosen books below plus descriptions and excerpts. In mostly alphabetical order. As to which order I’ll finish them in, I’m not sure, but probably: In this Ruined City

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Sonya Lano

When I was twenty-two, I ran away to Prague, where I now sing to my black cat (who collects dustballs in her whiskers), eat chocolate for breakfast, and have lemon tarts every Thursday.

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