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JoanGrey

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Joan Grey is your friendly, neighborhood wordsmith. She can be found working outside with her flock of nutty hens, inside fondling yarn and knitting, or sitting in front of computer screens; but mostly she's found trapped underneath cats, trying desperately to reach her coffee cup.

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herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia

It is that time of year again--will I manage to actually finish these on time?

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/miniature-braided-paper-ornament/

JoanGrey,
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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Sooooooo, if we traded addresses, we could trade cute handmade art thingies!

<3

mjjmori, to bookstodon
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The hardest thing about #NaNoWriMo is the continual effort of invention.

Even if you know where the narrative starts and where it ends and the big events in between, many more small events are needed to fill 50k words.

It also needs to be engaging with a sense of building tension. This is where one’s craft comes in.

It’s an amazing experience, a humbling fire consuming old mental structures yet powering the creation of new ways of thinking.

#mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting

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@golgaloth @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting

And an outline!

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@mjjmori @golgaloth @bookstodon @amwriting

I've posted this link before, but for someone else, I think.

I'm a heavy outliner - I include all/most of the little side conversations and bits and bobs in my outlines, because I find that with that complete an outline, I can get up to 5-8000 words in a writing day. (The link is ugly, I'm so sorry.)

I know a lot of pantsers and plantsers, but I'm not one of them.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JVbRTRm-_a9SPAnqaMv4NySohIFJddEPIlzKsmsG2LM/edit?usp=sharing

iamgaarden, to bookstodon
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Hello @bookstodon

I'm looking for sff books with female knights. I'm not picky with genre labels, I just really love my female knights 😌

Know of any?

I have read and loved:

  • Sam Darren's Dragonoak trilogy
  • Justin Lee Anderson's The Lost War
  • Craig Schaefer's The Wisdom's Grave trilogy

And currently I'm reading Tamora Pierce's Alanna: The First Adventure

JoanGrey,
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@iamgaarden @bookstodon

The third trilogy in the Alanna world is also about a lady knight and it's one of my favorite series. Just perfect.

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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Hey, @romancelandia
via long time romance reader Marilyn:"I don't read a lot of contemporaries, but this is a really good romance. Different. And the protagonists are actual grownups."

Emma Barry's Chick Magnet is on sale at just under two dollars, for the rest of November.

https://www.amazon.com/Chick-Magnet-Emma-Barry-ebook/dp/B09Y5HHZ6G/

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Wait. WAIT!!!

CHICKEN ROMANCE? I'm so in, you have no idea, omg.

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia
Found via @tuphlos on twitter, this piece has some blood pressure-raising bits; the most important is the assumption that changing the covers of genre romances of different heat levels/sexual content, changes the actual content.

"oh, these books that are no longer coded erotic romance are actually good stories/writing/characters, but I couldn't have known unless they had acceptable covers" is a thing said there.



https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/?mc_cid=714e175360&mc_eid=8bf78c98f8

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @tuphlos

Oh wow, I've only read the first page and I'm ticked off at the smarmy tone. UGH.

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @tuphlos

Also, they're clearly cherry-picking the more modern covers. The number of covers shown goes way down and they're sticking to a very few, specific, sub-genres.

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @tuphlos

This is like a super cheaply and crudely done K-Lytics cover report, with added smarm and anti-romance-genre bias smeared all over it like mud.

WTF.

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@herhandsmyhands @tuphlos @romancelandia

We won't mention the lack of interest in queer romance, of course.

:screams into the void:

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia

Is anyone else having issues with jetpack showing their stats correctly on a free blog?

In days when I have a bit more traffic, the main page will give me a number, but when I click on the traffic tab, the listed blog posts and views do not match that number, they're significantly fewer.

JoanGrey,
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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

You can get jetpack to work at all!?

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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From author Jackie Lau:
It was just supposed to be a one-night stand, but now they have to work together…

Last chance to get He's Not My Boyfriend for

@romancelandia

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

On the 'zon?

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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If it's a kindle unlimited book, it's not FREE--just like a show or movie on Prime isn't free.

@romancelandia

JoanGrey,
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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

KU is a paid lending library. It's not FREE. I pay for that.

And by paying for it, I pay the fucking authors.

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@peachfront @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Yeah, tell me about it (the low pay). I'm a KU author and I'm just... I don't want to go wide, because just the thought of having to do all the marketing etc myself is wrenching, but KU's just... not paying.

(Admittedly, I do need to poke my ads, but... :whine:)

ExcessivelyDiverting, to bookstodon
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'Pride & Prejudice's Alternate Ending Scandalized UK Audiences

https://collider.com/pride-and-prejudice-2005-alternate-ending/

@bookstodon @histodons

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@ExcessivelyDiverting @bookstodon @histodons

Initially, I thought you meant that Austen had written a here-to-fore unknown alternate ending and I was shocked, but no, this is about the 2005 movie. Phew.

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia

Being a voracious reader of a certain age, I was reading Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children novels back in the early 1980s, as they were being published.

So I've been familiar with the whole "modern humans interbred with Neanderthals at various times" thing.

This "Neanderthals were smarter than us" take here is new to me; food for thought, but at first read I'm very much not convinced.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/10/ludovik-slimak-neanderthal-hunter-reinterprets-our-prehistory

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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Ooooh yeah, I read those when I was... uh. In my formative years, as well. :waggles eyebrows:

skaeth, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I need #BookRecommendations please! I’m looking for low #fantasy recommendations. Romance can be there but I want plenty of adventure & banter to go along with it. Nothing epic- magic should take a back seat and it’d be amazing if the main character did not have magic at all. Best if MC is not royal/deity/etc.

The closest thing I’ve read to this is Intisar Khanani’s The Dauntless Path series (which is amazing and I highly recommend). Anything else like it?

#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

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@skaeth @bookstodon

Legends and Lattes.

FeliciaDavin, to lgbtqbookstodon
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My books Thornfruit (first in a queer fantasy trilogy with a polyamorous romance at its heart) and Edge of Nowhere (m/m sci-fi romance) are both free in the Narratess Indie Sale, and I'm excited to check out some of the 300+ other books in this event! You can filter by genre, price, and whether books have queer content. https://promotions.narratess.com/ @lgbtqbookstodon

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@FeliciaDavin @lgbtqbookstodon

Holy sh it, I just realized who you are.

I loved Thornfruit. I have to go back and re-read it and get the other two books.

HI!! I'm a total fan!!!

CindySue, to bookstodon
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Making bread this morning. Cinnamon sugar bread is up first. It's in the bread machine mixing now.

Now I just have to figure out what kind to make once that's done. I need another sandwich bread because the 15 year old made a pretty Italian loaf, but it's also small. It will only last today for sure.

Have any recommendations for good bread machine cookbooks? I am currently using The No Mess Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook.

@bookstodon

#bread #cookbook

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@Jennifer @CindySue @bookstodon

This looks really good. I'll see if I can make it - I don't use a bread machine, but bread's (mostly) just bread. I think I've got rolled oats in the house. I'll have to check.

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I'm about halfway to setting up to making my own audiobooks to sell. They might be slightly less 'perfect', but they won't be AI and they'll be available.

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia

The post:
https://www.tor.com/2023/08/08/the-problem-with-small-town-witch-romances/

The book:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Lovely-Sight-Monster-Paranormal-ebook/dp/B09VCSYBDX?ref_=ast_author_mpb

JoanGrey,
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@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

Ooooh, this is pointed directly at me. Hmm. So much to think about and also, such a clear statement about what's been bugging me about many of the novels in this genre (and in Paranormal Women's Fiction, the one I'm currently writing in).

THANK YOU for posting this. I'm definitely going to read it a bunch. <3

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