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Bringing in an associate editor can be a bit nervewracking, but she's looking good so far and we'll be able to take on more clients, so yay!

This time of year it's so hot and laid back that I just want to collapse on the couch with a CJ Cherryh novel and relax, but noooo I have work booked until April. I'm not complaining but I'd rather be in a pool all day.

If you want to listen to youtube ad free on your phone, the Brave browser is perfect. It even keeps working on a black locked screen. White noise, lullabies, a sports game, you name it. It's perfect.

Do not fall for the lumberjack. Be impervious to his rough-fingered charms. Go back to your high powered job in the city and date someone with money and a small cosy mansion in the Hamptons.

A reminder to anyone trapped in an airport due to weather conditions right now: You have a right to stay in a nearby picturesque village while the airline sorts out a rebooked flight for the 27th. They also have to provide a widowed lumberjack for you to fall in love with. Know your rights.

This is not a good time of year to hit a brick wall with my editing. I just have health issues that came out of nowhere and sleep issues and an uppity cat and I can't deal. Please send ice cream and a Todd Agnew CD stat.

How did Tolkien write so much? The answer is he didn't have two-factor authentication for every aspect of his life

Starting to see lots of year end posts about # of submission, rejection, acceptance, etc. Don’t compare your year to theirs. Everyone is climbing their own mountain. Just keep moving forward. You’re doing just fine. 💙📚📝 #WritingCommunity #SFFH

So hard when your friend dies and his birthday comes up on Facebook. I miss his owl videos, his silly bird gifs, his Electric Callboy music videos. I miss the jokes and the rants.

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

Mood.

Just paid less than 3 dollars on Amazon Kindle for Terry Pratchett's biography. This is great!

You know it.

Finished round two of edits of a nice YA steampunk novel and now I have an hour of free time before I must try to sleep.

Yes, this....

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

So many things involved in emigrating to get married. I don't even have a dress. Must get my passport in January. Ugh ugh ugh.

What a nice morning at the beach. I love taking Sunday off, it's relaxing and I dont have to worry about comma splices.

I love this ministry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kysE...

Copyediting the last ten pages of a book is less nerve-wracking than the first ten, but for some reason it drags on for much longer. So I'm procrastinating on Bluesky.

Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:

Working in publishing is weird because I grew up reading for pleasure, like thousand page books in a week type of thing. And now I read purely to fix flow and grammar and I don't get the time to relax with a good book any more. I love my job but.... It's kind of ironic I guess.

Do not mess with the editors! Your participles will hang, your commas will splice, oh yessss...

Anyway, while the press is freaking out over Hunter's pardon, they're not talking about the fact Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense is a bigoted misogynistic drunk who sexually assaults women and publicly called for the killing of all Muslims at a strip club.

Well, in spite of fighting people off with a stick, my schedule is pretty much full until April. I am so blessed. I have a wide variety of authors to work with, although I do have my favourites. 2025 is looking like a great year.

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

This a great story and very funny. If you enjoyed it (and why wouldn't you?) I recommend Alex's collection 'Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma'. You won't be disappointed.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends. Please take in huge doses of tryptophan and enjoy this time with family. Tomorrow's frienzied sales hunting is about to begin!! (Because in South Africa we have no Thanksgiving, but you'd better believe we have Black Friday.)

Ok, so my twitter account is now dectivated again. (Don't ask me how I got another one, I had to see if I could reach a friend on there but couldn't) and with a reset email and a couple of clicks I'm free of Musk again. Bye bye, Lemur.

This song is so funky. Africa you are in my bones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9K...

Finish editing this book or lie here overheated and sickly like some sort of feline grinch.

His mercy's enough His grace is sufficient So come if you're needing forgiveness and healing His mercy's enough Oh, and this is our hope The cross it has spoken Death is no more Christ is the Lord Oh this is our hope, yeah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y8...

Today is my birthday but also my book's birthday! Dreidel of Dread is unleashed upon the world. Get a copy or, if you want to congratulate me without spending money, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for any of my books you've read! alexshvartsman.com/2024/11/19/d...

There's something so nice about a fresh social media site. Everything is new, the bots haven't invaded and started talking to each other, and you can actually interact with other humans.

Today I found out that Afrikaners call thimbles finger hats, and it's the cutest thing ever.

Just finished reading @alexshvartsman.bsky.social 's The Middling Affliction. His first book in The Conradverse Chronicles. It was lots of fun and I was compelled to read more than I originally planned to today. alexshvartsman.com/the-conradve...

The white sheep are placid And feed in quiet places; Their fleeces are like silver That the moon has known. But the black sheep have vigor In their ugly faces. The Best of all the shepherds Wants them for his own. Marguerite Wilkinson~~Black sheep.

And just like that loadshedding returns like an unwanted guest stealing beers out the fridge and hogging the couch. We have two power stations back online and we're at Stage 4 of rolling outages? What is wrong with this picture?

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet Isaiah 62:1