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This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

Fun Theda Bara fact: a house she once rented on West Adams is now used to house Jesuits.

I asked if he’d ever considered following his father into films. The rest of the meal was spent with him regaling us with stories of touring with his parents when he was small and silent Hollywood.

In the late 80s, I happened to be seated next to Leiber the younger at a lunch at an SF con. There were the usual question for half the meal from the rest of the table. Then he said I was quiet and did I have questions?

Welp. December 1 and I am already down for the count thanks to Starbucks. #whamaggedon

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Aetna won't cover HPV vaccine? 🤬

I know there are people in the insurance industry who just love RFK Jr because he's giving them the excuse they need to not cover stuff. Which saves them money while raising premiums.

I laugh because I am a fan of B5, Trek, SW, and Who and found myself nodding and agreeing. There’s being a fan and being A FAN. The latter? With extremely rare exceptions, avoid at all cost.

(Never got into Supernatural in part because of the crazies.)

A gray cat kissing the paperback copy of The Marriage Method by Mimi Matthews.

Happy book birthday to @mimimatthewsesq.bsky.social !! 🎉❤️😻
Here's Phantom giving The Marriage Method his kiss of approval. #HistoricalRomance #MarriageOfConvenience #RomanceBooks

The illustrated cover of SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE by Olivia Dade (subtitle: "A Harlot's Bay Novel") is a warm peachy pink, with golden light coming from an overhead light fixture. The picture is set in a bakery, with racks of golden-brown pastries and loaves of broad. In the foreground, a pretty fat woman with long brown hair is sitting on a table, with a handsome fat man with ruddy hair and a beard standing between her legs. She has a hand tugging on his apron, and he has a hand on her thigh. They are nearly kissing and gazing at one another with desire and adoration.

SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗

The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!

www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...

For Americans, it’s on sale at Amazon. My copy will be here next Tuesday.

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She apparently also said they should have Nick Fuentes on, so she’s clearly carrying water for him now.

My Novel November project has decided not only are my leads in a romantic suspense, which is *not* what I set out to write, there is a sinkhole in the middle of the plot big enough the city council may have to pass a special appropriations measure to fix it. :: sigh ::

How's your writing going?

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But the idea this company is positioning their books as something to instagram with, showing it peeking out of purses, makes me feel it's more "book as accessory to make me look smart" than to actually read. Like it's trying to appeal to the performative reading folk.

Trust me, you aren't. When I saw them, my first reaction was that they looked like a classic lit book who didn't need a fancy cover because if you picked it up, you were probably already looking for that specific cover.

Antifa, 1925. (Read the whole post.)

On a dark blue-green background, the headline reads: November is coming. Are you ready? On the left is the cover for Surviving 30 Days of Novel November. On the right are the words "Daily motivation to hit your word goals. Survival tips for when the writing gets tough. Permission to be imperfect (and keep writing anyway). Below that is a cartoon of a woman sitting at a desk, head on her laptop, arms hanging loosely, either in exhaustion, defeat, or both. Below that are the words "Your Novel November companion. Because every writer needs backup.

Day 15: Your main character decided they're in a different book than the one you're writing 😅

"Surviving 30 Days of Novel November"—because sometimes you need more than caffeine. 📚💻

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#NovelNovember #AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingMotivation

Not seamless. There's a tag sticking out on one side.

I knit a Fair Isle cozy for my iPod NaNo once when I saw the ones they were selling at the Apple store. Took me about an hour. That one was seamless.

On a blue background are two old photos of a young man. On the left is a full-length one of him in full uniform (including puttees) outside a house. On the right is a head and shoulder portrait of him in uniform, a medal pinned on his chest. Below this, on the right, is a metal disk inscribed Samuel G. Hicks, Private First Class, Ambulance Company 145. On the left is a medal with a red bar with three white stripes at either end. Below that is a crown and suspended from that is a Maltese Cross with two swords crossed behind it. This is a Belgian Crosse de Guerre from World War I that was awarded to him.

Today we remember my husband's great-uncle, who served as an ambulance driver in WWI. Awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre for the number of men he pulled off the field and got back to hospital alive, he did not speak of what he saw in those days.

#VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay #WorldWarI

Oh. That explains *so* much.

I’m battling my way back from anemia following cancer treatments, and I’ve been on a rollercoaster of late.

Yes! Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty 3 has just dropped its first episodes.

Birthday besties! It’s my birthday as well.

May there be many more for us both.

Hey, what got me started writing was me snarking “I can do better than that,”at something on TV when I was a kid. Mom said, “Okay,” and pointed me toward the typewriter.

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I critiqued a manuscript where a young lady in the 1800s got from the Port of San Pedro to the San Gabriel Mission in a couple of hours.

I pointed out that, if there was traffic, I couldn’t get from San Pedro to San Gabriel in two hours with a car and freeways.

The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war. The text beside and below it reads: Lorelei released his arm as if it had burned her like the magic-repelling iron rails currently being planned by Imperial engineers to crisscross the vast Empire—part of the mortal world’s endless, vicious fight to extinguish the life and color from every corner of the continent. Meanwhile, the god of war and justice who stood at the head of the Imperial pantheon, Divine Jovar, smiled in benevolence upon His chosen few . . . Including the man who loomed before her now, certain and protected in his god-touched path of conquest. Unfortunately for him, Lorelei had her own divine sponsor—and more than enough personal stubbornness to move mountains.

This week's Book Quote Wednesday word is "color," so here's a snippet from Lorelei and Gerard's first meeting in my fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen, which you can preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

Less than 12 weeks to wait!!! ✨💖✨

#romancelandia #bookqw