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So yeah. I have deactivated my account on the old book of faces (or tits and asses as it used to be--I've long thought of it as assbook, for a lot of reasons). I deactivated instead of deleted mostly because I want to hold onto my identity. Really I only waited so long (since October) because of a few personal reasons, mainly family with things happening. I was an early adopter, probably long about early 2007. I decided then I didn't like it much (I was still hot into blogging then) and dropped off some six months later. I rejoined ...
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Just dropped in to mention this wonderful review of THE SILVER SCAR. The folks at Skiffy and Fanty read EVERYTHING and know EVERYTHING about SFF, and they support all writers in amazing ways if you haven't ever checked them out. I always covet a wonderful review from them. Book Review: The Silver Scar by Betsy Dornbusch While you're there reading, take a look at my last post for them about losing my dad and gaining some peace from his things too. Month of Joy: Old Things by Betsy Dornbusch Heck, look around the whole site while you're there. It's chock ...
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I'm thinking a lot about these concepts with Liam Neeson's horrific admittance that he sought out a random black man (cringe; I hate that phrase) to kill after a friend was raped. We can analyze the wrongness of his statements from all sorts of angles: hurting people of color, potentially destroying his platform to do good, betraying the respect people might have for him, and that it reeks of seeking forgiveness from marginalized people, thereby making his redemption their responsibility rather than his own. Setting the racism aside (hopefully I don't need to outline how his were racist acts), it ...
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Photo by Dmitry Bayer on Unsplash I have a blog post up at my friend Rae's A New Look On Books reflecting* on the importance of mirrors to my writing, stories, and well, really, everybody. *see what I did there? I'm pretty quiet because I'm writing a new book. Not ready to say more than I have a title, characters, and it's secondary world fantasy with a sort of magic I don't think I've ever seen before. I'm also doing something a bit different in that I'm keeping track of daily wordcounts in my Filofax. Nothing in writing is more boring than word ...
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Test Test is this thing on? Ahem... TaDa!! New website! What do you think? Thanks to our longtime friend Tyler, it's all pretty now. In other news I started a new book and it has some weird mashups so I'm going back to secondary world fantasy for this one. I always feel a bit safer playing in worlds of my own making. No one can actually tell you "that isn't right" because how can they know? It came out of your own brain. That is, assuming physics don't apply, and I find a dash of magic takes care of that ...
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