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November 26, 2022

Almost Forgot . . . (Okay, I Did Forget)

In 2015, I posted this:

Thanksgiving is over, and it’s Christmas time, so here’s your Argh tradition:
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(Full disclosure: it’s Dec. 26, 2015, as I type this, but I forgot to post this in time this year. It’s not going to happen in 2016, you betcha.)

And it didn’t happen again in 2016. It happened again in 2022. Look, it’s been a rough week here, but we made it through Thanksgiving–those of us who are Americans and also not turkeys–so now it’s time for us to withstand the Christmas season, about which I am ambivalent. What am I not ambivalent about? the Drifters. Here’s your yearly intro to the season, Argh People. Happy Holiday, whatever you celebrate.

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Published on November 26, 2022 06:38

November 24, 2022

This is a Good Book Thursday, November 24, 2022. Also Thanksgiving.

My favorite Thanksgiving book is Thanksgiving 101 by Rick Rogers because it has a great gravy recipe.

So what did you read this week?

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Published on November 24, 2022 02:26

November 23, 2022

Working Wednesday, November 23, 2022

If you’re not in America, rejoice that you are not making a huge meal with a huge bird in the middle of it. If you are in America, uh, good luck, unless you’re like me and said, “Bah humbug,” and decided to stay home and make spaghetti for one. (I get cranky in the winter.) Which iw just as well since I thought all day today it was Sunday. I can see me now, meeting people at the door on Thanksgiving and saying, “What the hell? It’s Wednesday, go home.” That would be bad.

So what did you work on this week?

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Published on November 23, 2022 02:36

November 20, 2022

Happiness is Not Being in Buffalo

Apologies to those of you still getting pounded with snow in Buffalo, but ye gods, that’s awful up there. I thought it was tragic when we got three feet here, and you’re over six feet now. So glad I’m not in Buffalo. Also happy for electric blankets and really good air cleaners. It’s just that kind of week: Practical Happiness.

So how were you practically happy this week?

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Published on November 20, 2022 02:08

November 18, 2022

Argh Author: Gin Jones’s A Dozen Days of Death

Gin Jones’s A Dozen Days of Death (Helen Binney Mysteries) is out now!

With less than two weeks left until Christmas, Helen Binney’s social calendar is peaking, even as her energy is waning due to her lupus. She’s managing to balance enjoying as many holiday events as possible without triggering a flare, until she stumbles across a crime that requires her unique insights to investigate.

This time, it’s “only” a theft, not a murder, but the elderly victim at the Wharton Nursing Home is so brokenhearted by the disappearance of the handmade Christmas gifts she’d made for her friends that she’s starting to fade away.

What started out as a simple—and safe!—investigation becomes complicated due to the influx of holiday visitors to the nursing home, all of whom are all potential suspects. And then there’s the near-mutiny by the residents over the introduction of an ugly Christmas tree.

The dozen days of Christmas are rushing past, each one marked by another, even worse new ornament on the tree, and the thief’s victim is drifting closer and closer to death by despair. Can Helen bring back the nursing home’s holiday spirit or will a thief become a killer?

A Dozen Days of Death is exclusive to Amazon for now.

See Gin Jones’s website for more info! 

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Published on November 18, 2022 02:13

November 17, 2022

This is a Good Book Thursday, November 17, 2022

This week, I mostly read the first 10,000 words of Rocky Start, and cut a lot of them (those screams you’ll be hearing in the next couple of days will be Bob’s). I also went back and read some Rivers of London, just because I needed something I knew would be good.

So what did you read the you knew would be good? Or not.

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Published on November 17, 2022 02:05

November 16, 2022

Working Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Well, our plan to start Rocky Start in January is moving along nicely: Bob says we’re at 11,000 words, which is impressive because we were only at 7000+ when I gave it back to him. We’re at the interesting part of the beginning where he says, “How about this?” and I say, “Oh, I like that, how about this?” and he says, “That’ll work,” and then we look at what we’ve got and it’s too many characters and doesn’t make sense. That’s okay, we’ll fix it.

So what did you work on this week?

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Published on November 16, 2022 01:29

November 13, 2022

Happiness Is Knowing You’ll All Comment Even Though I Don’t Have a Post

It’s been nuts here. I’m working on two books at once, dealing with a new medication that’s realigning my brain, getting the house locked down for winter, and talking sternly to my cat who has taken to disturbing my typing with a very polite paw on my arm that is impossible to resist. Strangely enough, this all makes me happy, but not as much as knowing that I could put light bulb jokes up here and you’d all still comment.

So go ahead. Make my day.

My favorite light bulb joke:
Question: How many mothers does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: It’s okay, I’ll just sit here in the dark.

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Published on November 13, 2022 01:02

November 12, 2022

State of the Collaboration: Rocky Start

Bob’s working on Rocky Start, and I’m cutting Lavender, so we’ve been pretty peaceful. Until I read what he’d done with my first scene.

Geography. I’d rather have parrots.

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Published on November 12, 2022 02:24

November 10, 2022

This is a Good Book Thursday, November 10, 2022

Well, I totally ballsed up Working Wednesday, distracted by the election on Tuesday, and moving my usual phone call with Mollie to Wednesday, and trying to figure out cuts to Lavender and how we were going to organize the new book this time through with Bob, and I just forgot it was Wednesday at all, until the sun started to go down (so early) and I thought, “Better check the comments to make sure nobody did anything horrible” and it turned out somebody did: Me. I forgot Working Wednesday.

So here’s Good Book Thursday, right on time! I haven’t read anything recently because it’s been nuts here except for a YA fantasy that was good but not re-readable so I won’t mention it. And now I have to go cut Lavender and revise the start we made on Rocky Start (prophetic) because Bob wants to finish the book by Thanksgiving. And you wonder why I’m scatter brained.

So what did you read this week? (Aside from the election results if you’re American. I’d say it’s tense being an American right now, but then there’s Ukraine. At least our parties aren’t bombing each other. Yet.)

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Published on November 10, 2022 02:17