Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 122

The Experts Are Falling

Before I start this, because I have a lot of friends who are experts in their fields, and might perhaps be somewhat startled, let me explain.

I respect experts in their given fields. At my age, I’d like to say I’m an expert in mine. Well, in the spinning of tales, at least. The fiction publishing field has changed so dramatically since I first started pounding on its doors back in the eighties, that it seems like every five years there’s a new way to get in and to make it big. And it ev...

TANSTAAFL DAY FIVE- Good Lord, Is It Really Morning? And Free SF picture.

THE GOAL IS $50,000the counter stands at: 16,323.94(Updated at least every 8 hours, more often if i happen to be here.)IT ENDS JULY 16TH.

The Short Version Of Why I’m Doing This: I started the blog to promote my writing. It did that a little, but mostly it’s its own thing. I have fans for the blog and fans for the fiction, and never the twain shall meet.

After years of friends (including Jerry Pournelle, and no I never did it in his lifetime) telling me I should do a fundraiser or ...

TANSTAAFL DAYS- Day Four – Happy Fourth and thank you to everyone who has donated so far! Free sF Picture Released Under Creative Commons License

THE GOAL IS $50,000the counter stands at: $13,417.16(Updated at least every 8 hours, more often if i happen to be here.)

IT ENDS JULY 16TH.

The Short Version Of Why I’m Doing This: I started the blog to promote my writing. It did that a little, but mostly it’s its own thing. I have fans for the blog and fans for the fiction, and never the twain shall meet.

After years of friends (including Jerry Pournelle, and no I never did it in his lifetime) telling me I should do a fundraise...

A Singular People!

This year is my first year in what a local friend calls “Free America.” As in “Welcome to Free America.”

My heart will always be in Colorado, but over the years, the fireworks have gotten smaller and smaller, and any excuse will do to cancel them.

Just about the best shows were in Manitou Springs, where the fire department would go door to door for donations, and buy fireworks depending on how much they got. When one of our friends gave them a lot of money, the show went on FOREVER.

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Red White And Blue Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you’re me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMM...

TANSTAAFL DAY 3- Making things more convenient update and free sf picture released under Creative commons license.

THE GOAL IS $50,000the counter stands at: 11,703.97 (Updated at least every 8 hours, more if i happen to be here. Longer, maybe, overnight.)

IT ENDS JULY 16TH.

The Short Version Of Why I’m Doing This: I started the blog to promote my writing. It did that a little, but mostly it’s its own thing. I have fans for the blog and fans for the fiction, and never the twain shall meet.

After years of friends (including Jerry Pournelle, and no I never did it in his lifetime) telling me I s...

Free Pin Up 1

REE, objectification. Oh, shuddup. I like pinups for the aesthetics, and besides they make me happy. (Even if this one is built like a boy.) There might be some males, soonish, too. Or couples.

Anyway, I’m going to try to do one a day through the fundraiser. They are released to you under Creative Commons Licence (CC BY.) You can use it in any way you wish, including for computer background, calendar and/or book cover.

Or just look at it.

Copyright 2022 Sarah A. Hoyt. Released unde...

That Grey and Dreary Future

Humans don’t know the future. But we think we do, or at least can extrapolate it.

This worked very well in the times of Gorg and Morga, cave people who donated us the brain we think with. (Okay, no, I don’t know for sure, but as an explanation, it sort of works.) It didn’t take a genius to know if you went to fight the Hurgs over the ridge by your lonesome self, or even with your three brothers you would lose. Why they had 100 people and that new fangled throwing spears thing. The same...

TANSTAAFL DAY 2- In Which The Writer Slept Late

Note SF Pinup #1 released under Creative Commons below, as a kind of general thanks to everyone for putting up with the fundraiser.

THE GOAL IS $50,000the counter stands at: $8,861.81 (Updated at least every 8 hours, more if i happen to be here.)

IT ENDS JULY 16TH.

(Sorry for the late update. I’m going to get some coffee before the regular blog.)

The Short Version Of Why I’m Doing This: I started the blog to promote my writing. It did that a little, but mostly it’s its own t...

A Sad Excuse For A Post, and Free Gift

Yes, in the future I’ll be doing normal, full posts on this blog, under the fundraiser post, but posting that first one was scary and incredibly stressful. (No, you have NO idea how much.)

So, what the heck, some of you liked this picture when I posted it here, so…. The following picture is my own artwork and is hereby released under the creative commons attribution license.

This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they cre...