Foundryside kind-of review (more a reading journal), on the blog. Still trying to figure out what to do with the blog. #TeamPRH

I figure that the only way blogging right now will work for me is if I just do it for myself.

@charlesatan.bsky.social was right: I’ll be finishing all the English volumes of the Apothecary Diaries light novel this week. I’m down to LN 14 & 15. Honestly curious what my withdrawal symptoms will be like when I’m done.

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Love this, Adan & Feli! Also, as someone who read the early version, you should totally get representation!

Picking up where I left off in EMPIRE OF AI, and I just keep thinking, the whole world is Omelas, and instead of a child being sacrificed to suffering, it’s whole communities or countries.

#flotilla #gaza Video from @ yusufomar on instagram Proud of the flotilla, everyone did a great job quickly responding to the attack. I definitely get why the boats stay spread out. How pathetic is it to bomb a ship SO far away from Israeli territory in the middle of the night?

Ok, Apothecary Diaries is nice and I will likely get into the LNs bec I need to know the rest of the story, but it is also, um, slow. So fine, I shall be watching the show with the chainsaw coming out of a guy’s head.

After around an hour addressing my inbox post-2 week sales trip, I’m happy to report that I’ve gotten the unread emails down to the 500s.😂

Have read all existing chapters of Dandadan, which means I’ve voluntarily subjected myself to the torture of waiting for a new chapter every week. Yay, me.

Ang pinakamahal talaga na Grab sa SEA, liban sa Singapore, ay ang Pilipinas. As in malayo compared sa iba

Missed a PO for a key title, so now am quite upset with myself because it might arrive late.😔

I just got onto the Dandadan bandwagon, and I’m only 80+ issues in, but I have to say, the Evil Eye/Jiji arc is an amazing allegory for creating a kind society for PWDs.

Andaming kelangan gawin, huhuhuhu.

Anas has social media in Gaza that predates the war, is #83 on the Gaza Vetters list docs.google.com/spreadsheets... and his older brother is @osamabasilps1.bsky.social whom I’ve shared before. Anas and his family are living in tents and trying to survive but they are focused on their future ❤️

When you want to conduct a genocide without people seeing what you're doing, you kill all the journalists. That's exactly what Israel is doing. They just murdered 5 Al-Jazeera journalists living in a tent next to al-Shifa hospital. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Listening to a masked man kink, stalkerish dark romance and why is it hilarious??

This last week, I find I have a day to finish a book before some deadline. You’d think that would result in a lot of books read in this month, yes? No, it does not.😂

I may have confirmation that I’m a cool mom. My son’s gf apparently checked out my Spotify lists (wc I honestly didn’t know you cld do), & has told my son that my musical taste is cooler than his. Yay, me.😄 On a side note, they are also offering to help me move my playlists to Apple Music.

Trying to finish five books by Weds and sample a few others. Wish me luck.

For today, being a supportive wife means explaining what “slutty little glasses” are to hubby and sending him pics of Jonathan Bailey in them, so that he doesn’t feel too bad about having to wear his own glasses.

“Luck is the magic that happens when the right reader feels the right book in their soul - and then cannot shut up about it.”

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

It's been my experience that many of the people who denigrate any sort of genre writing don't read much or any of it, or if they ever did, it was decades ago. It's easy to minimize what you don't read, in a market segment you don't know how to address, with an audience you won't deign to approach.

Saw a report of the marketing initiatives on display at the last Seoul Intl Book Fair, and my god, they were amazing, not expensive (mostly, I think), and fun! Hats off to the Korean pubs and organizers who came up with them.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Apparently a real headline from Rolling Stone. I, for one, will not be surprised if Grok turns into Skynet.

Sometimes, I wish the local whisper network worked better for the authors. If not to prevent them from signing up with questionable entities, at least to prep them for what to expect.

Really should’ve placed my summer Friday schedules on my calendar, because I keep forgetting about them!

"Mapping New Stars" is a finalist for the World Fantasy Award?! 😱 Congrats to all my fellow contributors and especially to our editors @sydneyficant137.bsky.social Gabriela Lee and Anna Sanchez!!!

Welp, power has gone out in our condo. What now?

In a strange turn of events, I have become a football coach. Have I played football before? If you count one semester of football in PE over 30 yrs ago, well, yes. And how good was I? Speaking as objectively as I can, I was awful.😂 The only real thing I have going for me now is that I can teach.

To be completist by reading the full Rights & Wrongs series in recommended order, or to just go blind into Rose in Chains, knowing it’s pt 1 of a trilogy based on The Auction, hence the ending will not be…satisfying…yet? The issue being the first 2 fics are 160k+ words each. The Auction is 320k.😂

And that's film adaptation #1 for #RomanceClass ❤ Carla de Guzman's SWEET ON YOU has been adapted and will be released as RECIPE FOR ROMANCE. Red carpet when??? Congrats, Carla!!! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Haven’t finished a book in over a week, but today I’m very into this manuscript that I’m finding it hard to work instead of just curling up in bed to finish it.

I recently pitched a book that talked about “glimmers,” which are microdoses of joy, like this beautiful cup of hot chocolate. Bombs are dropping in diff places today, & who knows if or when a bomb will drop on us bec of mad world leaders, so please, take this glimmer & I hope you find your own.

I’m sure this notorious psychopath who just unilaterally started a war because he was bored will wind this down with great care.

Wondering how we go on reading and promoting our books, doing our jobs, etc., in the face of an impending world war.

Whatever Iran decides to do in response is 100% the fault of Trump and Netanyahu. Maybe when Americans are at risk yall will finally realize how pointless and destructive war is and stop letting these white supremacists to drag you into global conflict.

Bakit po ako nagtra-trabaho, e diba naka-leave ako?????

Welp, jt seems I’m selling “cozy Omegaverse” now. I do love my job, fr. The wonders never cease.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Filipino author’s book—ACCIDENTS HAPPEN by F.H. Batacan—in the midst of juggernaut authors’ titles at this week’s fiction bestseller wall at Fully Booked.❤️ #TeamPRH

Had a hectic week full of interactions, so am decompressing by actually…working.😛 But the kind where I update my excel master list and then take a closer look at all the titles. Because if all I have to do is to study titles, that’s kind of relaxing to me.

Just finished S4 of Slow Horses and now feel bereft until September (when S5 comes out).

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Spring ‘26 title presentation last night from RH Adult, so now am torn between reading one of my print books or one of the many great manuscripts presented.

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

My laptop hates me. It keeps crashing and then takes at least 10mins to boot up. On the plus side, I use the time for my mobile games.😆