Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 161
December 4, 2019
OH GUESS WHAT TODAY IS ITS WEDNESDAY SO IMMA POST THE FIRST FULL CHAPTER OF RECEIVER OF MANY TONIGHT...
I can’t beat the torrents at their game, so how bout I just repost RECEIVER OF MANY to the usual...
Will Thetis and Achilles appear in the books at some point?
Yes. In Ilion, the 5th book.
December 3, 2019
mollyringle:
Something I wish I’d grasped in my 20s (at which time I was a much snarkier person...
Something I wish I’d grasped in my 20s (at which time I was a much snarkier person online and off):
If you often blog and/or review books online and also are a published writer or hope to become one, it is IMPORTANT to be courteous in your posts and reviews. When you approach a publisher or agent or another author for assistance with your book, they’ll likely look you up. And if what they find is a lot of reviews where you’re using your snarkiest all-caps language and lots of eyeroll GIFs to shred other authors, guess what: they’ll probably decline to work with you.
You can definitely write unfavorable reviews. That’s fair! As an author, I don’t mind too much if I get a two-star review that says “This wasn’t for me. I found it too melodramatic/slow-paced/flippant/etc.” That’s courteous while reflecting the fact that some books aren’t a match for some readers.
But throwing all the shade at your disposal to burn some book you didn’t like, while it may amuse your friends and yourself in the short term, is likely to hinder you from getting what you want in the long term.
In fact, this is relevant advice even if you aren’t planning to be a published writer, because being pleasant to work with is basically going to advance you in every job on the planet. Whereas being someone obnoxious to work with…isn’t.
December 2, 2019
December 1, 2019
queenarsinoeoffennbirn:@therkalexander actually depicts Aphrodite in a similar manner in her short...
@therkalexander actually depicts Aphrodite in a similar manner in her short story, The Last Seed.
WARNING: The story (as with the writer’s other works) contain explicit sex scenes.
Say it louder for the ones in the back
Broke: blonde haired Aphrodite
Woke: Aphrodite constantly changes shape, gender, and ethnicity so she appears beautiful to all that behold her
November 30, 2019
November 28, 2019
Who’s your favourite character to write?
Hades, honestly. :)
Mostly because he’s just an interesting character to unpack. I have a lot of fun writing subtle emotional cues for him and digging into his interactions with other characters. Not just Persephone, but with Hermes, Hecate, and Thanatos.
