This is a post from my substack, partly about an urban fantasy giveaway and partly about my books. I want people to remember there's a free urban fantasy book giveaway on the 8th!

https://open.substack.com/pub/journeywindrow/p/happy-november

Urban fantasy free for all. Free ebooks on November 8, 2023. I am one of the people checking links on November 7th to make sure they work. Not KU. FREE.

https://open.substack.com/pub/journeywindrow/p/free-urban-fantasy-books

I will keep people up-to-date on the exact place that will be identified to go and be able to get the links for the free book download. I just wanted to make sure people knew this was going to happen.

#bookbanning

I am not on Twitter/X. A friend sent this to me. I’m gonna be talking to the library today about these yahoos. I think we’re going to buy the library two new copies of these books. And yeah it’s not just about replacing the book. They’ve got to spend time to do all the things they do to enter into the library collection. This is what happens when extremists can’t get their way.

Okay, all I'm so far behind today that I'll be up till the wee hours.

Sharing my MidJourney foray into Halloween.

I don't comment often here. Kinda busy. My day didn't end until around 8 tonight what with being involved in "Good Trouble." I do stop by and read when I can. Today I hoped to encourage people to be that person who is willing to take a stand against Christofacism and #bookbanning.

I didn't realize how much what I said meant until after the meeting when others came up to me.

Of course, there was also a cameraman for the opposition who deliberately tried to knock me down as he called me names

#bookbannng 2/2

I was fortunate to be able to speak for about 2 minutes. Extemporaneous. Pointed out I was both a CPS worker and an attorney (retired now) and books they want removed from the teen section help kids who have been hurt realize what's happening to them is wrong. They often report and seek help. Repressive families don't want that.

While I was there one right winger demanded the GBLTQ+ teens be removed from the room. (Grrr)

I was asked for a TV interview. OK. Stand up and shout

#bookbanning
See something, say something. I recently found out Mothers of Liberty is attacking my local library—the board, the librarians, etc.

We always say: why doesn't someone do something? The first time I ran into them I confronted them as liars. Then I notified Mothers Against Greg Abbott and lots of them called in support.

Today I went to the meeting and pointed out that the book they want teens not to read is about child sexual abuse.

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Me: tooters, I wander off for a little while I come back and I’m seeing the same obsession with Twitter and I wonder why. l I dumped it a long time ago and I don’t miss it. Most people never had any followers on Twitter. It’s like a circle of Dante as hell. sometimes people send me Twitter links, and I can’t even look at them because I’m not a member.

There is Coso, Threads and I’m moving into substract because I’m finding a good marketing tool for a writer. Let X die. Have a good life

#digitalart #snapseed #icolorama I started noodling around on midjourney with a complicated set of instructions. At first this looked like it was shrouded in mist. So I took it into other programs to see if I could make the pumpkins glow. And get rid of the mist. So having spent half an hour trying to fix it I think it doesn’t look too bad. Not as good as a lot of things. I’ve seen this fall, but not too bad.

I'm here off and on. Don't always comment a lot. But I wanted to share this information

For those who enjoy free ebooks I learned about a fantasy ebook giveaway tomorrow, the 6th of October.

I was an ARC reader for one of the books (Witch of the Lunar Order) and the author sent me this link in her newsletter.

https://frompagestoportals.substack.com/p/6861806e-3bfd-4d6f-8ca2-4dd5003d169c

On another site today, I was talking about my foster dog and everything. I’m doing with her right now regarding extinguishing, inappropriate behaviors and encouraging appropriate ones.

And one of my friends said he never understood how difficult it would be to foster a cat.

I replied: Thank God there is no foster cat big enough to drag a 150 pound person around. 🤣😆😂.
#randomthoughts #dogsofcoso #catsofcoso

#dogsofcoso #randomthoughts

Thinking of starting another blog page for foster dogs.

Improvements?

Furever home wanted for: 5-year-old spayed Boxer. Velcro, wants to be your lap dog. Eager to be your best friend.. Works for kibble/training treats. Starting obedience training. Rides well in car. Alert, friendly, rarely makes noise, non-aggressive. Wants to please. In training to be a dog model. ;)

Needs home with a tall fenced yard. No cats.

Ear amputated due to malignant nodule.

#dogsofcoso #randomthoughts

Dogs are funny. My foster dog is still decompressing. Today I gave her a small blanket to see if she wanted to arrange it for some thing fluffier on her bed. And she took a very great care with it, picking it up in her mouth and moving at all around. So that she could lay next to it…. Hey whatever floats her boat.

#randomthoughts

It's one of the reasons that no matter how outraged about things I don't like (generally political) that I not fixate on wishing harm on others.

Justice? Sure. But the sword of justice is double sided. It cuts both ways.

Anyway, I'm going to go celebrate Poetry eating for the second time in three days.

She's a Boxer dog, very gentle, even timid. I can tell that once she was loved. I wish I knew what happened to her dog parents. (sigh)

#randomthoughts
I have limits. Today there was someone weeping and wailing about the depth of her loss because her sister died. (not here)

For some reason, I looked at her account. Filled with vile hatred. Wishing death on others. Celebrating harm that befell others.

I used to do death and dying counseling. I could have reached out. Almost did.

Instead: blocked.

What goes around comes around.

Maybe she'll learn something from this. Doubt it.

#WritingCommunity I have no idea why, I’m going to have to go ahead and check the settings, but for some reason this pre-order is listed under humor on Amazon. Does this sound like a book on humor to you?

Good morning CoSoNauts. Remember punctuation is important. #coffee #humor #WritingCommunity

Good morning CoSoNauts. I was going to post a morning coffee meme but for some reason I can’t upload it. Is that some thing that’s because we’re getting a lot more people and the system is stressed? And for some reason I am being asked to create a poll. LOL

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