Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 93
May 23, 2021
introvertedsocialworker:Come talk with me about my favorite book series thanks Also go follow...
Come talk with me about my favorite book series thanks
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Would you ever consider maybe compiling your short stories (such as The Last Seed and The First Press of Olives) into one book?
I’ve thought about it, and if I did it would be a 99¢ offering on Kindle, along with a preview of the first few chapters of Receiver of Many, but I’d still keep the stories up for free elsewhere. Maybe I’d write and include a new story in there too. It would mostly be a convenience charge so folx don’t have to look them up on AO3 or Lit.
I don’t think I’d want to publish them as a trade paperback compilation, though…
I feel that keeping those titles, plus A Box of Beauty available for free so people can sample my particular style of smut and story writing, specifically, is important. It helps people sort out whether or not they want to invest in a whole ass series.
I don’t know… What does everyone else think?
Would you buy my short stories in an ebook compilation?
Thank you! I kind of absolutely love them as a couple and there’s a very good chance that I’ll end...
Thank you! I kind of absolutely love them as a couple and there’s a very good chance that I’ll end up spinning The Last Seed into a full book because I’ve been itching to tell a story about Ares, Aphrodite and Hephaestus for quite some time.
Hey Kata! Hope you're doing good. I'm looking forward to the release of The Good Counselor.
I like how Persephone and Hades were perceived by the Olympians to be a couple lacking passion. However they end up being more faithful than the Olympians
They will definitely be making an appearance at Olympus in front of the whole Dodekatheon, and there will be strange things afoot.
But anything else I have to say about their appearance would be fraught with spoilers, so you’ll have to read about it when it comes out ;)
May 22, 2021
Have you ever tasted pomegranate? I'm very picky when it comes to fruit, but after consuming so much Hades and Persephone media (including your books!), I'm honestly kinda curious and thought I'd ask.
I regularly eat them when they’re in season!
The seeds taste genuinely sweet but very slightly sour with occasional bitter notes if the entire pith hasn’t been pulled off the seed.
They’re also extremely long lasting. I have had one on the kitchen counter without refrigeration for up to five days (I live in a Mediterranean coastal climate so YMMV)
The best way to eat them it to buy them whole (the prepackaged seeds taste cloying and are usually wilted, picked too early and weeks old. Ew).
Get them between September and November if you’re in the northern hemisphere. Then carefully score the skin around the crown with a sharp knife and score the skin in sections to get through the pith but not enough to bleed the seeds. Break a section out, really enjoy the color of the seeds because they look like little jewels.
Pluck one seed and roll it on your tongue then bite down and if it’s a good one your mouth will be flooded with dark juice vaguely reminiscent of wine but sweet and slightly tart. Chew it up; there’s plenty of fiber.
Take a small handful of them and eat them.
The best pomegranates in my opinion are the ones with the darkest red seeds, so red they’re nearly black, sometimes skin that’s cracked open in places if you get them at a farmer’s market.
When I wrote a couple scenes in my books, I had to find a way to open a pomegranate by hand without a knife. Harder than it looks.
Here’s the excerpt from Destroyer of Light feature Hades, Persephone and a pomegranate:
