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faves of 2024: YA horror/thriller/gothic

The Invocations

Don’t Let The Forest In

Have You Seen This Girl

Lockjaw

Old Wounds

All The Dead Lie Down

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s

Compound Fracture

Let's make it official! A cover revealed!

BEETLE AND THE CHIMERA CARNIVAL the sequel to BEETLE AND THE HOLLOWBONES will be available NEXT SPRING, APRIL 2025.

✨You can preorder the book here!✨

You can also preorder from your favorite bookstore or request a copy from your local library. Preorders help books get noticed, so it's a good way to give extra support to books you believe in!

Watch the whole thing before exporting, preferably when you're not sleepy or otherwise in a state where you'll pay less attention.

If you're making a video it should be because you want that video to exist.

It is NOT true what they say about upload schedules, you absolutely do not have to post frequently or regularly. Take your time and make a video that you're happy with and that has good pacing.

More people use subtitles than you think, so it's worth it to make them accurate if possible. I revise my script to make it match any places I re-worded stuff while recording, and then copy/paste it all into the subtitles thing, and youtube mostly does a good job at lining it all up. I only have to tweak some of the timing where it leaves the words on the screen for way too long during a break between speaking.

When watching other people's videos, take note of things that annoy or bore you, and avoid doing them.

its from a collection by different authors (Douglas Adams,Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury etc)… 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jX9YA3TN9nEkmw6BdsumB2dXJZge8hJ/view?fbclid=IwAR3_t4zQjW18xZS8Pezb_9r3jAMcgTkyuSGyJAOT6i1dM31t2ZVPXj9YAHw

made a simple google doc for my favorite old(er) lgbt books (pre 2010) since i talk about them so damn much but their titles have been pretty scattered.

Fantasy paperback week (mostly)! What a wonderful, musty week indeed.

This, my friends, is one of my favorite things. It is a set of Ace Books’ unauthorized publications of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (1965). The story here is tortured (and you can find a fuller accounting on Kirkus Reviews). Basically, Donald A. Wollhiem approached Tolkien about producing an American edition of the books in paperback and was snootily turned down (Tolkien apparently saw paperbacks as “degenerate”). Offended, Wollhiem hunted around and found an apparent loophole in copyright law at the time (I do not pretend to entirely understand this) that had allowed the trilogy to fall into the public domain in the US. He quickly published these books, beating Ballantine’s revised editions to shelves by five months. Tolkien and Ballantine waged a war against Ace in the papers, accusing them of pirating the trilogy — eventually Ace relented, gave Tolkien royalties and let their (still popular editions) go out of print.