The Young Wizards New Millennium editions box set is on sale.
Grab one now!
(And look, there's even a QR code!! Woo woo.)
Buy directly from the writer! Support small businesses! Help fuck the patriarchy!* Etc., etc. ...Did I mention that all our ebooks are DRM-free? Did I mention that we replace them for free if you lose them or change platforms? Because I am not a greedy billionaire, and have no space program to fund.** 🙂
(And if I didn't need a brain scan before editing this thing, God help me but I need one now. I LOVE THE LIGHTWORKS EDITING SOFTWARE BUT SOMETIMES IT DRIVES ME NUTS.)
...God, but I'm tired. I'm going to bed now.
(Don't want ebooks? I have a Ko-Fi and I'm not afraid to use it. Don't you be, either. Please and thank you!)
*A sentiment of which @petermorwood heartily approved, BTW. Didn't take much to get him started. 😏
**I mean, it's not like I wouldn't love to have a space program. Just don't ask me to do the math. Converting between Imperial and metric is about my speed these days. (But at least I know that needs doing, so I won't lose any space probes...)
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Honey Possum or Noolbenger (Tarsipes rostratus) feeding on nectar, looking for nectar... family Tarsipedidae, order Diprotodontia, found in SW Western Australia
One of the world's smallest marsupials, weighing only 7 - 16g.
Do you perhaps have a book rec tag or a go-to favourite list?
not so much, but I can share my favourite books I've read this year!
I've read 34 books so far this year, and most of them I've been somewhat meh about. but the six listed above are certified day ruiners. in that you will lose all productivity and ignore everything you urgently need to do and just read instead.
if I had to pick an ultimate favourite, it would be Long Live Evil. there's a relationship between two side characters that scratched my brain in exact right way, and I cannot stop thinking about them....
and then next up on my reading list are these three. I’m excited to start them:
the author of Running Close to the Wind is actually on Tumblr, so shout out @ariaste!
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It's crazy and wildly unfair the types of people who will be out there with no shame over any of their behavior meanwhile I'm stuck being nauseated at myself for every very normal conversation I have with someone
Send Diane Duane to the Reichenbach Falls to outline a cyber/steampunk Sherlock Holmes novel
...Well, they say you're supposed to declare the challenge in the topmost sentence. Will that do, you think?
So let me tell you what's going on, as sometimes when an idea sneaks up behind you and hits you over the head, you should, you know... just shove it out there and see what people make of it.
Background: Once upon a time, I wrote a short story for this Holmes & Watson anthology. Here's the first paragraph of the story.
It was early autumn of the year 1895 when Holmes and I, having been caught up in the events earlier that year that surrounded the return of the abominable giant “rats” of Sumatra III, were at last able to return from deep space to the familiar environs of Baker Street. After months of headlong flight among too many planets of five systems, being caught up in not merely one or two but three major on- and off-planet engagements, and pursuing (or being pursued by) malefactors and their minions through the unexplored catacombs of an anciently abandoned alien city, the prospect of resuming something like our normal routine came as a great relief.
...So who'd like to see the prequel novel?
But first (because I am a career-long outliner, as discussed at some length here) will, of necessity, come the outline. ...This is because I don't want to waste my readers' time, any more than I'm willing to waste my own. (Not least because as too-recent events have reminded me: Art's long, but life's too damn short.)
Adding a break here, because the logistics on this are a touch complex. WARNING: contains very time-sensitive changes to travel plans (six hours, and the clock is ticking!), multi-national rail journeys (on senior-citizen discounts), writing work done to good effect in foreign places... and the Falls.
...First: a shade of meta background here. For the past week and almost-a-half I've been away (again) from the rural cottage I long shared with @petermorwood, to see if I could start to break through the shock and grief into starting in on writing work again. It's been a tough quarter-year since suddenly losing him: and what's increasingly been feeling like "the Empty House" has not been—as you might imagine—a place terribly conducive to the imaginative life, when for nearly three decades there was always another mind, and voice, imagining things in there with me.
Getting away, though, seems to have helped. And without warning, this last week or so, the novel for which that paragraph up top served as an inadvertent precís has abruptly stood up and said, "Let's go!"
Problem is: right now I'm terrified that going straight back to the Empty House will strangle it in the cradle.
...Here, though, is a thought that came to me abruptly when I started work on the pizza in this post.
Why not extend your stay here for a week and see if you can nail the outline down in that time? The flight back to Ireland can still be changed, and at no additional cost... for (glancing at the clock) the next six hours.
And (glancing over the European horizon) Reichenbach is right there... just a few hours away on the train. What an energizing place to do such a work! (I've been there before—a story that will come out over the process to come—but not for nearly fifty years. Again: Art is long but life is so short...)
So who's in to help me make this happen?
Over the next six hours, I need to raise enough $ to put me up in the hotel in Reichenbach for a week. (Looks like about US $1000 at the current exchange rate.) This doesn't seem like appropriate territory for a GoFundMe. Never mind: I've got a Ko-Fi.
Want to send me to Rechenbach to get this job done?
Go over here and drop something into the pot. Tag your contribution as REICHENBACH so I know what it's for.
Please bear in mind that you need to do this within the next six hours of my uploading this post. Otherwise I can't reschedule my return travel without it costing me various arms and legs.
Who knows, maybe this will come to nothing. But without putting it out there for people to see, I'll never know.
What you get: Daily, probably multiply-daily, updates. Chunks of the outline as, day by day, it gets written. And the complete final outline, when it finishes up within a week of my getting back to Ireland. (Because a few days of polish probably won't kill it.) ...And probably some food posts, because (shrug) writers gotta eat, yeah?
And yeah, of course I'll go up to the Falls, and post video for those who've assisted in this endeavor. I've been before: I know the way. :)
...So there it is for you, folks. The ball's in your court(s) now.
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Someone bought this design on a shirt today so you should all look at. It just feels so soft, I need to make more art just for the sweetness and pleasure of it like this one.
okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:
look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly
i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.
UPDATE: I happened to have all the ingredients for the spinach muffins on this list and made them today, and folks, they're GOOD. They have a very nice mild flavor and don't actually taste like spinach at all
Ppl on twitter talking about redacting Dr who back to Peter capaldi. I say why stop there. Here's my pitch for a new season: open with Sylvester McCoy waking up from a nap. 'phew!' he says. 'that was a long nap. I had the strangest dream...' Then he steps out of the TARDIS, immediately pratfalls, hits his head, & regenerates into Billie Piper.
#this but unironically roll it back to nine#i'll never not hold he's the best one by far
start the next season with a fully reshot version of Nine's regeneration and at the end of it he turns into Billie Piper. the Doctor (Billie Piper) locks eyes with Rose (Billie Piper) and they both start screaming.
start the next season by playing the opening of Time and the Rani but when it cuts to the inside of the console room lying on the floor is a suspiciously Billie Piper shaped figure dressed in the Sixth Doctor's outfit and a curly wig
the curse of fatal death starring Billie Piper who regenerates into Billie Piper who regenerates into Billie Piper who regenerates into Billie Piper who regenerates into Joanna Lumley.
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I love the Young Wizards books so much, and I wanted to ask: are there any Earth animals that have wizardry that we haven't seen mentioned in canon yet? How have you decided which animals will have it?
Generally speaking, I'd say there seems to be (or have been) a trend for them to be at the top, or near the top, of their local food chains.
There absolutely are various species that have wizards among them that haven't been mentioned in (print) canon yet... simply because their presence hasn't been germane to whatever the plot of a given book was. I try to avoid flinging data like this around where it's not really needed, in order to avoid boring people—or annoying them into thinking that I'm one of those Show All Your Work (Whether It Needs To Be Shown Or Not) writers. 😏
