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Blog Funding Days, Day 13 of 15

THE DAILY POST IS BELOW!

Hi!

My name is Sarah A. Hoyt and I run this blog, in addition to writing novels, cleaning the house, managing to keep the mathematician in touch (eh!) with reality, writing the occasional short story, attempting to manage my publicity and publishing. I’m tired. very. And frankly there are — right now — weeds in my front flower beds that are taller than my sons. (Who are both over six feet.)

The main reason to run this fundraiser is that I write this blog and...

Buying The Narrative

It has been many years since any of us bought the narrative: literally or figuratively. Though I’ll point out that I spent ten minutes, this morning trying to figure out if I should subscribe to the local newspaper — in paper.

Why, in heaven’s name? you ask? Well, because I’ve found it’s easier to clean the quail housing — the trays underneath at least — if I line them with newsprint. And for a hot minute there, it looked like the newsprint would be cheaper from the local rag, with print...

Day 12 of fifteen of Blog Funding

TODAY’S POST IS BELOW THIS.

With more pretty pictures.

(My prompt for this was “muse of novel writing.”)

Anyway, yesterday I figured out a way that hopefully will actually work to get stuff to ya’ll. And I found out I’m NOT late on getting the collection of USAian stories to those that contributed enough to get it. Turns out I gave a deadline of August 23. I’m still trying to get it out of the way soonest.

Meanwhile, of course this year it’s all different…

(And this is the...

Though Hell Should Bar the way

Yesterday in the Huns discord, we were talking about …. um…. aging and other subjects. Honestly, I’m not as sensitive as Granny Weatherwax. You don’t need to mumble about the maiden, the mother and “the other.” I don’t feel like a crone, yet, but my medieval definitions, I definitely am. Not only because they lived much shorter lives than we do, and sixty would be “old and full of years” but because the kids have left the house and are adults, and though we don’t have biological grandchildr...

Blog Funding, Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Blog Funding, day 11 of 15

Yes, I really am going to combine them. You see, I just did the overdue chapters of Witch’s Daughter, and am now going to do Winter Prince.

So, first, pretty picture:

And now, due to the inordinate number of hours I expend on this blog, and the fact that the most common sentence said in exasperation by husband is “Must you do the blog right now???” I believe I should be paid.

(And I’m arranging to send out rewards for last year’s fundraiser hopefully a...

Fundraising Post, Day 10 of 15

With Pretty Pictures!

POST OF THE DAY BENEATH THIS ONE.

Tenth day of funding. Big jump overnight. Fingers crossed, because, well, I believe I deserve to get paid for the almost full time job of running the blog.

I am however aware this is a hard year, and not just for us, but for everyone else, as well. I’m aware a lot of people can’t donate even if they’d wish to, and that a lot of people have greater needs.

Yes, I need to finish disbursing stuff for last year. It’s not b...

Till The Bright Land

Christopher Anne Samson, RES’s beloved spouse and valued commenter of the early days of this blog has passed on to glory around one pm Eastern.

I suspect at this very moment she’s asking Himself for some explanations, and she will be advocating for all of us.

G-d give her perpetual rest in the splendor of His light. And make us worthy to meet her again in the bright land.

To Meme Or Not To Meme

That’s silly. It’s Saturday! Let’s MEME!

Fundraising Post, Day 9 of 15

POST OF THE DAY BENEATH THIS ONE.

So, it is the 9th day of fundraising. It’s going… slowly. But not stopped.

I’m doing chapter updates to the two novels in Chapter House after this. Today has been slow due to health follies. I did warn it would be slow to the end of the month because it’s “fund with doctors” TM.
It will get done.

I continue to deal with fundraising by posting pretty pictures, which, yes, are free for the taking. (They’re midjourney with light mods. Not as much as I’d...

It’s Time To Take The White Pill

It’s amazing how every time I post something telling people things are not quite as bad as they think, and defeat is not guaranteed, someone or other presumes to lecture me on how oh, no, it’s much much worse.

The prize this week goes to the gentleman who tried to tell me that a Romanian type of outcome was impossible because we can’t organize and march shoulder to shoulder without being arrested or something. Because, you know, the outcome in Romania was organized (it wasn’t. I have rea...