Drea

I'm trying to find a cover of Gold Dust Woman that I heard who knows how long ago. It's not the Hole cover (which is a favorite), but it does have that more aggressive feel. Was it a metal cover? Maybe? Does anyone have a favorite Gold Dust Woman cover?

Book events can be full of beautiful moments, but also they're at least 50% rejection. Often more. For hours, for 2-3 days. So if it's not your thing, just thank the writer and move along. You don't need to tell them why you think their work is "gross" or what they're doing wrong.

Did you know that Longmont is closer to Fort Collins than it is Aurora? I DID NOT!

Today has been an adventure, but I’m at MileHiCon, my table is set up, I am wearing my Boo headband, and I am as ready for this as I’m capable of being.

Happy Halloween! 🎃
May you all have a fabulous day and night, with exactly the amount of spooky you are hoping for.

My mother's cousins are my aunts. My uncle's children are 20+ years younger than me, and guess what? I'm their weird aunt.

This continues to be the dumbest timeline.

Summoner: Two Anthologies of Paranormal Romance Summoner and Summoner v2.0 are paranormal romance anthologies about a demonic phone app and the sexy chaos that follows.

We are in the final week of the Summoner Kickstarter! You can support 8 indie authors and a tiny press, and also enjoy two paranormal romance anthologies about a demon summoning app and the sexy chaos that follows! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

a backhoe tearing down what appears to be a small annex building on white house grounds behind boarded up fencing, with hi-vis vest-wearing workers milling around and the white house partially visible in the background

this is not a great image and it will be in one thousand campaign ads

Did a brewery book event today with four other authors. Didn't sell a single book (not sure if anyone did). This is officially the worst event I've ever done, sales wise. A year ago this would have devastated me. Today I'm not happy, but I know it was the event, not me. Not my books.

This my tiny press’s project!

Nothing convinces me you're compensating for something more than open carrying in the grocery store. In a city. With the gun just clipped to your pocket or waistband. Yes, you showed us all what a big man you are.

I have a newsletter!

Wow, that took me forever to put together.

Carys (Seer of the Strait, Lady of the Bridges) has a couple half siblings, but she has no idea, and possibly never will. Britt (A Broken Crown) has a half brother who is going to be VERY important in the second half. Sweet kid, bookish, in over his head.

Summoner: Two Anthologies of Paranormal Romance Summoner and Summoner v2.0 are paranormal romance anthologies about a demonic phone app and the sexy chaos that follows.

My tiny press has launched its first Kickstarter! Not one, but TWO anthologies of demonic paranormal romance could be yours! Support 🌶️📚 indie authors!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

It's the day after an event, so I just wanna be lazy, but as I still have not made it on the NYT bestseller list, I apparently need to get back to work.

If your position can be debunked by spending five minutes or less on Google or Wikipedia, it's probably not based in fact.

Not from Michigan, and not sure I know anyone who is, but if you're out there, HB 4938 is a special kind of heinous that disguises the censoring of the LGBTQ+ community (especially trans people) in a sweeping "porn ban" that will also cut access to education materials. Everything about it is bad.

Okay. I need an angel investor to give me $100K to start up a niche bookshop that also has a decent community space and maybe a coffee cart with offices for a publishing company upstairs. We'll employ my kids and all their neurospicy friends and they can learn valuable life skills in a calm setting.

I can feel my to-do list glaring at me.

I'm trying to set up a space where I can film content, and I have put more thought into the aesthetic of this small space than I have the rest of my house. Any day now the hyper focus is gonna slip and I'm gonna just throw up my hands in defeat and it'll go from carefully curated to eclectic AF.

The Mendelevian Oracle: Second Edition! An educational/oracle deck, and accompanying book, made of the elements of the periodic table reimagined as fantasy creatures

My friend Robin is doing a 2nd Edition of her periodic table oracle deck, with revisions to the book and a new printer that prints on 100%-post-consumer recycled cardstock. @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

Me: Wow, I've got a lot to do this week.
Universe: Yeah you do!
Me: ...what's that supposed to mean?
Universe: Oh, everyone needs you this week. No one cares about your deadlines.

The Spirit Halloween has opened! Spooky season is officially upon us!

“Why not just have AI do it all for you?” is not the proper response when an author is talking about the copy writing side work they do to support their career. Calling said side work “real work” and the novels “fun writing” is also not the vibe.

Social media post from Grant Howitt: you're damn right I'll combine Latin and Greek base words in my world-building, motherf*cker I'll combine them in the same WORD, I speak ENGLISH, this language is an active crime scene.

I cannot be held responsible for the unhinged decisions I make while world building. But also, English.

So I switched WIPs and wrote over 1000 words yesterday for the first time in over a month. I am simultaneously irritated with and proud of myself.

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' 'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'

My favorite part of this is you just know this guy was one of those "AI is the future and you all need to get over it" bros.
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

FDA panel promotes misinformation on antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say Nearly all of the 10 panelists emphasized what they said were risks of the drugs. Some claimed, without evidence, that antidepressants don't work at all.

Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”

I'm going to try working on an old WIP that's been sitting at 20K for a little too long in the hopes that my stupid ADHD brain will go, "Eh, bored with this, let's write Lady of the Bridges instead!"

I was recognized in public today! I was at the Ren Faire, waiting for Jacques de Whipper to take the stage, and a woman a few people down goes, "Weren't you at Book Bash? I bought your books!" I was so delighted! And kinda wished I hadn't been eating a giant turkey leg at the time, but oh well.

Why are all the t-shirts in Torrid's Nightfall line oversized? I'm already fat, I don't need a completely shapeless shirt making me look fatter. You can't tease me with the gothy fashion and then go, "Ha ha, it's SO unflattering."