Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. –Gustave Flaubert
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? –Henry Ward Beecher
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. –George R.R. Martin
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At long last, Land of Midnight Days by Katrina Jack is available for purchase from Ecanus Publishing. Currently available in e-book only, a print run is planned sometime in the future, so go! Buy! Make sure it sells enough that I can get my grubby little paws on a physical copy! You can buy it on Amazon and Amazon UK.
But what’s it about? Oh, very well, I’ll tell you.
What would you do if your life was filled with fear: hide, run away – or would you fight back?
In a city at war with itself, Jeremiah Tully already knows how to survive. Now he must learn how to live. Mute from birth, of mixed-race heritage, his only possession a charmed flute, Jeremiah tries to discover where his remarkable talent as a musician will take him.
As Kate says, miss it, miss out.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. –Jane Austen
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. –Oscar Wilde
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. -Isaac Asimov
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That’s right, I’ve finished the revisions! Again! For good (I hope)! And now, a stats breakdown, because I’ve been staring at spreadsheets all day and decided to do one of my own because my spreadsheets are better:
Once again, I’ve printed a hard copy to look over before I get it sent off. Seymour has graciously offered to go over it for me, and I hope he’ll find the time to do it before next year because he is an excellent editor. He just has even less time than me. *sigh*
I could do with a nap in one of these right now!
Photo courtesy of Jessie Harrell via WANA Commons
So tonight, now that all my hard work is done (I hope), I’m going to leave my laptop turned off, pop in a lovely Disney movie, and spend some time with my long-suffering family. They deserve it, I deserve it, and more importantly, my brain needs a rest! Of course, I could always amuse myself by trolling the internet for fun things to post on the ’90s Kid Facebook page. That’s always a fun time! Incidentally, if the nostalgia bug hasn’t bitten you yet, check it out. You may wind up with a severe case. I know I have! 🙂
Okay, time to go. Must load up with good food, good tunes, good drinks, and good rest! After all, I’ve got another vacation coming up, and as anyone who’s followed my previous vacation posts already knows, I’ll be in serious need of a vacation to recover from it, so I had better rest while I can. Happy Tuesday, y’all! ♥
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I’m still busy revising like mad. I’ve only got some twenty pages left to revise. Something tells me they’ll be some of the hardest twenty pages to revise, right up there with the former Chapter Seven (I think it’s now Chapter Nine – either way, it was a bear to fix). And now that I’ve checked in, I must put the screaming one to sleep and get myself back to work. To the Writing Cave! 🙂
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It’s been a week of ups and downs here in my neck of the woods. Thumper is now walking…when he feels like it, which frankly, isn’t that often. Stubborn little guy. He and Cricket are working on molars, so I’ve got two cranky little guys running around my house. Seymour’s grandma passed away yesterday after years of health problems, so we’re dealing with everything attendant with that as well. We’ll be seeing a lot of the family over the next few days, as the visitation is Friday, the funeral Saturday, and the family reunion/40th anniversary party for Seymour’s parents/Thumper’s birthday party is on Sunday. Going back to work on Monday will feel like a vacation at this rate.
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Revisions continue. I’ve added over 10,000 words and more than 30 pages in the last 27 days, and I still have about 90 pages left to go before I’m finished revising.
Hey hey hey, I’ve been interviewed again! This time I owe my thanks to Ed Evans, proprietor of Sisters Noire. Because apparently I can’t shut up, this will be the first part of a multi-part interview, so if you’re interested in hearing more about me blathering on about Lokana and books and writing and such, stay tuned for updates!
Also, check out Sisters Noire. It’s seriously cool stuff.
And now, back to the writing cave. I’ve passed the halfway point of my revisions, so there was some happy dancing done the other night. I’m really looking forward to being done with the edits (or at least with this round of them, anyway) because between the heat, a killer week at work, and all the critical thinking I’m doing in my off hours, I feel like my brain has transformed into a big gray puddle of goo. Said puddle of goo must now think I’ve gone pond-hopping because I’ve been spelling things the British way all day.
And with that, I’ll leave you all with this:
Happy Thursday!
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Photo by Kay Kauffman
We can be the heroes and heroines in our own lives. We can set out upon a quest. We can write our own stories, and within those tales, discover something extraordinary. We can have an extraordinary life. -Tricia Drammeh
I read that about an hour ago and was inspired. This post almost didn’t get published today, but I’ve still got ten more minutes to go before the weekend is officially here and I think I can make it! Anyway, Tricia is a wonderful lady and I highly recommend visiting her blog, where you can find the rest of the post that I quoted above.
Anyway, it’s late, I’m tired, I’ve got boatloads of work to do, and I’ve recently become addicted to Pottermore. If you’re there, let’s be friends! I’m SkyKey6037 and just got sorted into Hufflepuff tonight, so that was pretty cool, although I have to admit I was hoping for either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw. Oh, well.
And now, to the writing cave! Happy weekend, y’all!
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The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. –Tom Clancy
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 