Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 242

Odds and Ends

Very odd.  For the end of the year.

Yes, this is very late.  Mostly because we were picking son up from airport, and apparently today is the most popular day of the year to pick someone up at the airport.  It was crawling SLOWLY towards arrivals.  Also, son didn’t wear a banana costume (family joke) so it took us a while to figure out where he was standing. And here we thought we’d taught them to always wear banana costumes while traveling.  Not only does it make it easier to fine you, no kin...

Science Fiction Disasters That Never Happened: the Robots Will Make Us Obsolete

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This one is tricky, because so many people still believe it.  Kind of. Sort of.  Or at least they piously believe it when people with socialist inclinations are in power and it’s a good way to explain why there are no jobs, as opposed to you know their craptastic policies causing it.

It’s still there. Still a believed myth. Just the other day (I think in Denver, but we might have been driving to Colorado Springs to see younger son) we passed a sign saying “robots can’t steal your job if you’...

I AM Alive

I’ve just been assembling the amazing library system and painting shelves and stuff.

I completely forgot this.  I’m sorry.

That Time

There will be another post, but right now have this, which also explains why I’ve been …. kinda scattered around here.

Mad Genius Club

There is a sense to this last week, as the year speeds to its end.  Most years, there is, of course, though it’s often submerged in the sense of rushing and getting things done for the end of the year.  Parties, friends, one last chance to see people and get gifts wrapped. That sort of thing.  This year, it feels like I’m getting things done, too, but there’s...

Merry Christmas to Man and Beasty and More Sale Items

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Merry Christmas to men, beasties and odd creatures.

AND yeah, there’s some sale items, should you need to relax with a good book.  (Which pre-kids, and eventually again, was the totality of my Christmas.)

Witchfinder if 99c for the next couple of the days. (Yes, I’m almost done with a new cover, but not today.)

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In Avalon, where the world runs on magic, the king of Britannia appoints a witchfinder to rescue unfortunates with magical power from lands where magic is a capital crime. Or he did....

You’ll Need An Elephant Gun to Stop This Sale

But why would you want to?

Three Mysteries, three dollars.  Is the family driving you insane? For three days you can buy three mysteries very cheaply and withdraw to a world that’s supposed to be insane.

Meet Dyce Dare, 99c a piece.  (And yes, sequels and audio on the way.)

Dipped, Stripped and Dead

 

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A Dyce Dare Mystery
When she was six, Dyce Dare wanted to be a ballerina, but she couldn’t stop tripping over her own feet. Then she wanted to be a lion tamer, but Fluffy, the cat, would not o...

Drumming

[image error]I no longer cry when I listen to The Little Drummer Boy.  But no matter how silly the rendition, the family does shut up, because they know I’m listening.

Kind of like everything stops and we stand up for the anthem.

So, why cry?  And why have I stopped crying?

You could say I’ve stopped crying because I’ve gotten used to the idea.  Inured, maybe? though that’s a terrible word.

You see at some point in my twenties I realized what the whole thing was about talents, and about if you save your l...

Just Quickly

Yes, I owe you vignettes and promo, but guys, I’m up to my neck in underlayment.

This is 99c to midnight the 26th.

Dragon Blood: A Collection of Short Stories

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From the trenches of WWI where the Red Baron just can’t help turning into a dragon, to the desert sands of a future world where humans have become something else, from a coffee shop between worlds where magicians gather, to a place where your worst nightmare can love you, let Dragon Blood take you on a series of fantastic adventures.

W...

The Super Stupendous Holiday Sale Marches on and OW!

Hi guys.  I might not post new material till tomorrow, mostly because OW, laying down floor makes everything hurt which makes it hard to sleep… which… but I’m holding on thinking how much easier the house will be to clean afterwards and also I’ll be able to reach all my books!

Meanwhile today Two collections of short stories are on sale:
Crawling Between Heaven and Earth, inexplicably only till midnight (inexplicably because I thought I’d done 48 hours.  I must be weirder than normal.)

Rememb...

The Super Stupendous Holiday Extravaganza Goes On!

Yes, yes, more post with wordy things sometime today, but time and floor wait for no woman (I’ve varnished the breakfast nook table because over the last few years we’ve somehow stripped the polyurethane off it.  To be fair, it’s probably my mad cleaning, rather than how much use we make of it, but…) and we need to lay down floor now, so we can do the library tomorrow.

So….

The world’s worst promoter realized at like 3 am that I’d forgotten to advertise the 99c Sword and Blood at Insty.  (Did...