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The Umbralings Urban Fantasy Bookstore is almost ready to go live (you can see it here).

The Bookstore Site: https://www.urbanfantasybookstore.com/collections/all

Here is the link to an onboarding document for those interested in it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecnocAbUzvMSp1Kc5Nn8W1huDzZuPpJpTpbElyPoD24Bz_uQ/viewform

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I am working with an individual who is starting a website focusing on marketing urban fantasy books for indie authors. Once he gets everything up and running, I will post it here.

At this point, it will be UF. He may start a sister site for PNR.

He asks for a link that runs through his website because that will help generate some income to keep the website up and running.

He is a UF Author and he’s got some really great people on there, at least in my opinion

#WritingCommunity #reading

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I was speaking about the intersection between space opera and fantasy the other day. After, I went to CANVA and made this graphic. Clarke’s third law is any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic.

The unsophisticated would consider Siri a demon in box that speaks. Is the button on a microwave a wand?

I have a character who does her best to explain her magic in terms of theoretical physics. And so I frequently wonder where the intersection is.

You?

#humor

Doris found the Viking cruise. She signed up for a bit too immersive.

#flowers #roses

#RandomThoughts

When your elderly relative conflates a white supremicist threatening a Black woman with a firearm and destroying her property with people defacing a crisis pregnancy center.

I can't change her perspective. I know that. I'm here to help her because she can't live entirely alone. But there are days I want to weep. 😭

This is the same person who is one of the kindest, most compassionate people you'll ever meet. To everyone.

#randomthoughts # coffee

I had a late night last night. M y dog woke me at 5 AM, and I’m just dying’ here. There may not be enough coffee in the known universe.

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So the neighbor kid shot out my daughter's glass screen door with a hand crank BB gun. It could have hit my daughter, her husband, or their dog. It can do as much tissue damage as a low-velocity firearm.

Cops notified. No charges filed—this time. The parents are upset with the kid. But it's on them for not teaching adequate firearm safety rules.

There's 40 inches of snow there. Let them shovel off excess energy for a few days. Lucky they didn't give them an AR-15.

Me being asked on FB for the name of this site:

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Not beaten up by the FB AI. Yet. Maybe tomorrow.

#RandomThoughts

Me: Bad storms. 🌩️ Tornado activity. 🌪️

My daughter in NH: 40 inches of snow overnight, No power for 30 hours.❄️ ⛄

Trees and flowers near me: Welcome to allergy season! We survived the storms and we're out to get'cha. 🌺

Weather gods rubbing hands together: Going to freeze those buds out in two days. 😈

Sister: I bought a composter. 😇

Me: We don't have a garden. Our lawn has been dug up and turned into rocks. Where does the compost go? 🤷 😕

#SaintPatricksDay

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Question. I have a character who choses the personal pronouns of ze/hir to fit a certain profile.

As I am going through revisions I feel like I'm in the La Brea tarpits having all other characters respect her choices whenever they mention her.

"Is ze coming?"

As opposed to: "Is she coming?"

Would to be reasonable to limit the use of ze/hir to being in her presence or in official communications?

A local high school librarian resigned after the hoards of Christian fascists reduced the books in her library to 47.

The facists are coming after the books in the city library as well.

#coffee #morningcoffee #goodmorning

It has been an exciting evening here in East Texas. We’ve had a tornado over by Lakeland, which is thankfully a long way for me. We’ve had just incredible thunder and lightning storms with heavy hail and the rain going through here. And we are not done off tornado watch until midnight but I think it might be getting a little better and I hope nobody got seriously injured or hurt.

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