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When Atlas Takes A Coffee Break

As you guys know I might have a few opinions. Couple hundred. And while I’m often in doubt and often in error, there as some things that get under my skin in a way you can’t even begin to imagine.

Lately, everywhere, I’ve been listening about how the problems in America are because we’re trying to maintain our place at the top of the unipolar world.

Honestly, I hadn’t heard unipolar at all in news media or opinion pieces since my brother’s cohort was lamenting that “the good guys lost”...

It’s Up, IT’s UP

I think I broke Amazon.

No, seriously. They didn’t even bitch after Darskhip Thieves. Renegades and A Few Good Men went through without a peep. I guess having an hysterical Latin mom threatening them with la chancla if they keep asking her to prove she’s herself got a note put on my account saying “Do what the crazy woman wants. It’s not worth anyone’s time.”

So, A Few Good Men, Third of Darkships, is once more available electronic.

And hardcover is in the process of publishing.

Ahem...

Slightly Different Cyber Monday Deals

If you like gaming figurines, or Or for people that just like to paint and collect minis, these are own created.

Let’s support our own.

Promo code HOYTSHOCKED, for 25% off of orders over $10 (I told you he was one of us.)

AND THESE PEOPLE ARE HAVING A MASSIVE BOOK SALE, AND I COULDN’T LIST ALL OF THEM:

It’s a Cyber Monday Extravaganza

FROM SARAH A. HOYT, ON SALE FOR 1.99

Darkship Thieves

Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. She never had any interest in finding out the truth about the Darkships.
You always get what you don’t ask for. Which must have been why she woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in her father’s space cruiser, knowing that there was a stranger in her room. In a short tim...

Sunday Vignettes

Since tomorrow I will be doing Cyber Monday Promo, I didn’t mean to inflict two promos on you. And yes, I am slightly better. What happened is the dry coughing irritated my throat and got my asthma going, so there’s still some coughing going on, though substantially less every night. Will probably be on in a couple of days. I hate when my body takes a reaction to something, in this case medicine, and views it as a suggestion on how to kill me better.

Having auto-immune is like living...

Very Afternoon Much Awake, Wow Wow Wow

So, it turns out the reason I was hacking up a lung was the blood pressure meds. Which I’d started when the coughing started. And of course, no one told me this. As a side effect I got told it’s “a diuretic.” At this point, it’s complicated by the fact that anything that makes people cough makes me cough ten times as hard (my airways are touchy) and that my throat is raw from coughing, but it’s …. tapering off.

However last night was another of those wake up every fifteen minutes coughin...

Well, That Was Fun

This is very much a state of the writer post, and the state of the writer is mixed. I seem to have hit some kind of respiratory allergy that keeps worsening, so I spend most of the nights trying to hack up a lung.

(Allergy, because it’s been going on for two weeks, and I haven’t given it to anyone, including my husband, and we kiss!)

It’s not a huge problem, as I don’t think it’s impairing my breathing. It’s just annoying because I’m not sleeping, which means I have a case of “don’t w...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving, guys. I’m doing family stuff.

Younger son matched way up! Older son and DIL agree.

And Yet Thankful

Well, we got our butts in a bear trap and no mistake. Which is a funny thing to post about when I want to do a post on thankfullness.

But we’ve got our butts in a bear trap. And I don’t see any point lying about it. It certainly won’t make things easier, and it will make you distrust me, at which point my talking is useless.

So — we got our butts in a bear trap. And we must escape, even if it means chewing our tails off. Right now, still looking for solutions that free our tails. And h...

What to Do When Someone Disagrees with You – A Guest Post By Frank Fleming

We live in a very contentious world with constant, angry arguments online and it feels like people don’t even know how to deal with disagreement in a healthy way anymore. Disagreement is a part of life, though, and we have to know how to navigate that. You could just ignore the disagreement, but that seems wrong when you have a strong belief. Instead, you need to learn how to correctly engage with someone who thinks differently than you.

What to Do When Someone Disagrees with You

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