Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 8

Thank you to everyone

Thank you for your comments, everyone.

To make things more confusing, we were away from home and had to drive back, and I was out of internet range for most of it.

We still don’t know if we’ll be traveling for the funeral. It’s a tiny country so they expect Wednesday and I don’t know if we can make it work.

I can’t see comments on Holly’s post (don’t ASK ME WHY. I’m the blog owner) on the back panel. And WP won’t let me comment from the front. But I have read all the comments, and ...

Tell me how you met Sarah

Good morning, Huns, Hoydens, and other Creatures!

Sarah’s out of pocket and I promised to accompany family to the Fair. So, please don’t panic if your comment stays in spam til after your bedtime today! I’ll get it later.

That said, can you all tell me how you first found Sarah’s writing? Where, when, and why, and what made you keep reading and come back for more? Fiction and non-fiction, both.

And also, check out the newly updated author website: https://www.sarahahoyt.com/ it’s ve...

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 assoc...

These Memes Are Made For Posting

Yes, I know I ...

From The Prometheus People

News update: 45th Prometheus Awards show set for Zoom at 2 p.m. Saturday (EST) Aug. 30

For immediate release:

The 45th Prometheus Awards ceremony will take place Saturday Aug. 30 at 2 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Pacific) via Zoom and is open to the public.

This will be the first ceremony in the Prometheus Awards’ 46-year history in which both of this year’s winners – Poul Anderson (1926-2001) and Michael Flynn (1947-2023) – will be recognized posthumously, with eloquent, personal, reveal...

This totally is a post

So, what on Earth is going on….

Well, I had a doctor’s appointment this morning which went on to mid afternoon. Normally I’d have posted last night and scheduled, but I got pulled away by a minor emergency and ALSO ….

Hearing someone in your duct tape family died is a little sapping to the focus. Even if you were if not expecting it, aware he wasn’t doing well.

And then last night. Oh, dear Lord. I’m sitting here on three hours of sleep. THREE HOURS. And that’s a high estimate.

Y...

An OLD Kind of Dumb

First of all, sorry this is so late. Yes, yes, I am still fighting the clanker. DEAL.

I’ve changed the cover of No Man’s Land, but I’m still not happy. To be fair, it’s a big ask for the thing to produce Ellyans. But…. well, I wish I were a little less autistic about it, okay? Or obsessive. This might just be “obsessive.”

Anyway I’ve been staying up late and beating on the clanker, and I’m cranky and a bit out of it. I need to write — for my own sanity — and haven’t been able to.

A...

David Starr, Space Ranger – Reading the Future of the past

(Like the Nidiot I am I scheduled this…. and forgot to flip pm to am. And for this I stayed up till midnight actually two am. Which means I carefully changed am to PM because…. Yeah. There’s a proud tribe of Nidiots and I’m their chief….. Sigh.)

For those of you who just dropped (from outer space!) in here, this is what I’m doing and why.

Yes, we did a double reverse and went back to this book, since one of you (Thank you Uncle Lar) sent me a copy. I refused to buy one because they run...

Steel Sharpens Steel

I was thinking today that the problem is we tell kids that they should choose something they love as a job. Then they’ll “Never work a day in your life.”

Leave aside for a moment the fact that you can’t always pick what you work at. People don’t seem to realize that, or that the circumstances of your job aren’t always under your control. When I was in trapub people kept telling me to take charge of my career or write what I was most passionate about. And I kept going “you do realize that’...

Pretty In Memes

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