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Ice Storm: The Refreezening
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ice Storm The Refreezening: Once again the ice has come to Texas, taking down trees, power lines and my ability to post. In fact this is my sixth or seventh attempt to post this little note from my phone as cell service is sketchy at present. At last report we could be without power until …
What’s Next for Outrageous Fiction?
Reading Time: 4 minutes WHAT’S NEXT? A valid question, asked by (possibly) tens of readers, and one I’m happy to answer, now that we’ve successfully posted all of our first-in-series, posted and released The Libra Gambit, and completed the serial edition of The Crew Who Came in From the Cold. Following that run, our next task is to get …
Slight Interruptions-Updated
Reading Time: < 1 minute TL;DR – Turns out, it wasn’t that bad! *Happy Dance* Time for some end-of-year housekeeping-slash-KonMari action. To that end, the website will need to go offline for a little while, during which time we will be doing some scaling back of infrastructure that requires deleting the website and then re-installing. I’m sure absolutely nothing can …
The Editing Room Floor: And Billie’s a Crowd
Reading Time: 6 minutes We’re back, and in celebration of The Libra Gambit’s release, here’s a scene that was cut somewhere during the second draft, after we realized there was no room for another spy on the Moth. Side note: We love Billie, so much we even dream cast her (Lesley-Ann Brandt is a treasure!) and we fully expect to …
Who let the books out?
Reading Time: 2 minutes We let the books out! Affirming just a little bit late, that- some of us-Autumn is the Best Season, we are pleased to announce the release of The Libra Gambit, Book 2 of The Zodiac Files, alongside the re-release of a leaner, meaner, keener (sorry, I’m a slave to the Rule of Three), Gemini Hustle, …
What’s Going on With The Gemini Hustle?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Take Two So, in a somewhat backward, bet you didn’t see this coming, fashion, The Gemini Hustle has a second, much shorter, edition. Going for a fresh edit wasn’t an easy decision to make, but over the years since its original publication, and the writing, re-writing, and editing of The Libra Gambit, it became clear …
The Editing Room Floor: Empty Calories
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s another from The Libra Gambit’s editing room floor, and one which includes references to possibly the most comforting food I have ever known (says the person with no nut allergies), the grilled peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich, also known as the fluffernutter sandwich. Side note, the fluffernutter tends to use marshmallow cream, but my …
The Editing Room Floor: Prologue Fail
Reading Time: 12 minutes What can we say? Sometimes there are scenes that don’t make it into the book.* Maybe the scene didn’t gel with the rest of the story, or went off on a plot tangent too far. Maybe the scene stopped the action, or was confusing. And maybe, just maybe, the scene left the beta readers tilting …
Question of the Month – April 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hello! First, yes, it is now May, and while April’s question was timely, it took a while to collect the answers (we’re a global operation, don’t you know) and then for me, Kathleen, to sit down long enough to post said answers. I swear, things will calm down. Eventually. But, onto the question. As some …
The Why
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just taking a moment to share two videos that drop some wisdom on several whys, from why we don’t trust ourselves to why we create to why we can’t explain why we know what we know. The first is from The Quitcast, and is third in a series for Intuitive writers, which I’m following closely …