Red Tash's Blog, page 242
December 9, 2011
Author Heather Adkins is ready for Christmas in her sweet hat!
Author Heather Adkins is ready for Christmas in her sweet hat!
A Red Tash Christmas
December 8, 2011
How Come Jesus Gets Industrial Disease?
Peeps, Amazon has surprised me this morning by rolling out a new...
Peeps, Amazon has surprised me this morning by rolling out a new author program that *could* lead to more people reading my books…so for a limited time (90 days), I am going exclusive with Amazon with This Brilliant Darkness.
If you use a Nook, iBooks, a Kobo, or a Sony reader, or you are a Smashwords diehard, and you've been considering downloading This Brilliant Darkness, you'll want to do that today, before the book comes down from those sites. It will not be available again there until March of 2012 at the earliest.
Also, if you are on Amazon, grab TBD before it goes back up to $1.99 later today. I may be raising the price to $2.99 before Christmas, as well. Lots of experimenting going on.
Of course, if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can borrow This Brilliant Darkness for free!
Custom decoden Kindle case, handmade by me
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Dang, I need this case like yesterday. How much does it cost? Do I want to know? I'm kind of afraid to look. I just got this one for my Fire, but egad, this is terrific.
December 7, 2011
Writer Wednesday! Jeff Mariotte on the Kindle Fire. Sorta. Yeah, no, not really.
It's winter (nearly) here in the Midwest,...
Today I'm editing the chapter with Deb's first bout....
Today I'm editing the chapter with Deb's first bout. I don't understand why JK Rowling didn't like writing about Quidditch. I like writing about derby.
The period flew by, with our girls alternately roughing up Bleeding Heartland and then letting them score. It was a close game, and I was sent in to jam.
There are many things I can't recall from my days with the Godsmackers, but I will never forget the feeling of digging deep into my skates, bounding off the floor, fighting gravity as it pulled me sideways through the turns, before barreling through the waiting pack of rollergirls. The feeling of my teammates—of Apri—whipping me past the crowd, the wild speed threatening to topple me as I fought to stride into it, multiplying it.
The hardest part wasn't avoiding the hits. I actually enjoyed those—the jarring feeling of another body slamming into mine, banging my ribcage, thumping my hips. I also loved the challenge of avoiding everyone's skates—tippy toeing through the pack—that was unbelievably fun. No, the hard part for me was holding my arms in as close as I could to avoid getting a penalty. My pesky elbows just didn't want to stay in. And worse than that, my wings. I could never take my mind off them.
Next book, there needs to be more than one bout.
If you've been living under a rock and you still think of roller derby as the old school "We stand upright when we skate" quasi-sport of yesteryear, here's a little video for you that'll give you more of an idea what today's derby is like. You might consider throwing a few bucks their way, as well.
Help Long Beach RD meet their funding goals for season 3:
(Of course, there's a lot of banked track in this vid, and most derby today is flat-track, but you get the idea.)
