katelyn hurley

Q: did I really quit my job to write books?

A: that wasn't the only reason, but it was among them, yes

Q: have I done this before? Do I know what I'm doing?

A: this isn't my first book, but this is the first I have hopes will see the light of day. So... no.

announcement

here it is. Here is the (redacted) first draft of my contemporary fantasy novel, working title "Firewalls"

now to turn this pile of words into something coherent. then revise it a few more times. Then find an agent to find me a publisher. Long path ahead, but the first step is done.

I am SO close to being done with v0* of my ~*~super sekret side** project~*~ that it is driving me crazy

*v0 meaning it won't be ready for public consumption, but I'll finally be willing to talk about it

**not sure what a side project is when I don't have paid employment, but whatever

I wonder how much of my life has been spent processing triggers for man-db

went to a (very) small town dive bar at 9 PM on a Sunday. met a duck. 10/10 would (very) small town dive bar at 9 PM on a Sunday again

check out this little guy I bought on ebay

it's ancient and runs like molasses and the wifi doesn't work

but it's adorable and I love it. I'm gonna wipe it and install Debian and use it as a portable text editor :)

Watch this United A319 completely disappear into dense #fog while landing at DEN this morning! 👀 #aviation #weather

Do I know anyone who's good at Android? I need some assistance

solidarity

i should find a tech company to go work at for a week. all my hoodies are getting threadbare

guy taught my quantum class in college

small world

Cute registration number - 313 is Detroit's area code.

Does anyone have any handy links to interviews or blogs about what it's like to go through the process of raising a seed round?

(not asking because I want to do so myself, I have other reasons for wanting to know)

i make my own Russian dressing github.com/kjperry/reci...

this is what i do for the corned beef hildaskitchenblog.com/recipe/insta...

never made my own rye bread, but that's on the agenda for next year (this is probably year 4 of the Week)

Day 3 of Excessive Reubens Week*, day 3 of confirming that reubens are my favorite food

*the week after St. Paddy's Day when I buy all the clearance corned beef and eat nothing but reubens for a week+

Really sad that now that I am ~*~funemployed~*~ there is no way I can justify dropping the cash to go to the last RailsConf :(

I've never tried eating a clock. It's too time consuming

We used to be a country.

quit my job

Rooting for the Eagles solely based on my dislike of the word "threepeat"

ESPHome is the neatest, most useful piece of software I've encountered in a long time

ESPHome + Flipper + bunches of esp32s and RF transmitters + zigbee wall buttons = no more single-purpose remotes to lose or take up space

With the way my life is right now I probably won't even get to fly domestically before those are phased out. A girl can dream, though!

(I still have the KLM house thing you gave me on my desk 🙂)

gonna cut this sticker off this box and put it on my shirt and head to the airport because flying cargo is probably my only remaining chance of making it onto a 747

First DNF of the year: Marlon James's "Black Leopard, Red Wolf." Either I'm just not in the right place for this one at the moment, or it's an intentionally-confusing book where everyone speaks entirely in riddles, and also it's completely about genitalia.

3: Caroline O'Donoghue's "The Rachel Incident" (fiction, 2023). 4/5. I think I just really like books about messy, morally-reprehensible 20-something women in non-American settings.

2: Hannah Grace's "Icebreaker" (romance, 2022). 1/5. Wouldn't have finished if I wasn't trying to find out the appeal of "hockey romance." I think I figured it out (hockey players: hot, sociable, can fight; team: found family + spinoff potential) but my life is worse overall for having read this.

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My first finish of the year was Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (fantasy, 2023.) 2.5/5. The plot was bad and the characters suffered for it; the themes also felt like every other modern fantasy book and I was expecting different from historical fantasy. Fun enough, though.

Katelyn Hurley Katelyn Hurley has 243 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Story: Substance, Structure, Style, ...

My reading goal this year is (at least) 30 books: 10 fantasy released within the past 5 years, 10 fantasy released anytime, 10 in any other genre. Be my friend on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/10...

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