Amy Laurens's Blog, page 37

A Night Of Grieving

Im sitting upstairs in my new office space, quiet piano music and rain sounds playing to block out the TV below and to help my son block out the sounds of his mind, because hes having trouble getting to sleep lately (arent we all? I slept through the night last night and it felt like a miracle).

Its a strange, liminal kind of space. Im not in a room, but Im in the house. (My office space is the upstairs landing, with my back to the linen press and my front to the stairs and every other side...

Made-It… Tuesday?

Yeah, its been one of those weeks, and its only Tuesday night >.< Never mind. Next week is shaping up to be much, much less frenetic, and then there are two weeks of school holidays. Phew.

But! We did make things last week!

In particular, we made something ridiculous like 20 or 30L of grape juice. (5 or 6 gallons, for my USian friends.)

A weekend in the recent past (because what is time anymore when we are all home, all the home, all the us, all the times, every time), a local-ish vineyard opened its doors to the public. Its crops had all been adversely affected by the January Australian bushfires, and were no...

< Never mind. Next week is shaping up to be much, much less frenetic, and then there are two weeks of school holidays. Phew.

Alive

Schools essentially closed to all but necessary students on Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon my school announced that staff could (and should) work from home unless rostered on for supervision. So today was my first day trying to sort out what this all-four-of-us-at-home-all-day thing looks like.

My husband has a desk downstairs in the main living/kitchen area. Theres a little one he built out of pallet wood a while back upstairs in the landing, but its been covered in boxes of crap to sort out...

Time Sensitive: 50% Off On Top Writing Courses & Lectures

WMG Publishing is offering 50% off on all their writing lectures and courses for TODAY ONLY. Use the code MarchSadnessSpecial20.

This is a one-time thing that I havent seen them do ever in the last four years, something that they are doing to try to help give people access to positive things to do and learn during quarantines and isolations.

I started publishing my work seriously in 2017. Now, in 2020, I have my 19th title up for preorder, and one of my novels won the state prize for best...

FREE Workshop On Using Kickstarter For Fiction

Mega-best seller Dean Wesley Smith and also-best seller and games-man extraordinaire Loren L. Coleman have put together an amazing, FREE workshop on how to use Kickstarter effectively to boost your fiction. If youre a writer, or an aspiring writer out there, I highly recommend this great new course.

(Actually I highly recommend a lot of Deans courses there on Teachable, but this is the only free one

Happy Release Day! Trust Issues, A Shifter Romance Novelette

The urban fantasy novelette Trust Issues is out today, hurrah! Go check out this story about a date gone terribly wrong.

There may be cookie-cutter sharks. You never know your luck. O:)

Alternatively, Im working on rebooting my newsletter, and in the next week or so Im going to start offering Trust Issues as a freebie for signing up. Youre welcome to hold on for that announcement if youre happy to add your email to my bi-monthly newsletter and would like Trust Issues for free

Inklets: It’s Been A While But Here We Are

Both of the March Inklets are stories of mine and in fact, there are THREE of them, because Inklet #30 which has just released is another DOUBLE ISSUE!

Also, the price of the ebook versions has been revised downward! You can now pick up ebooks of the Inklets for between 99c and $1.99 on the ebook platform of your choice!*

Made-It Monday: BOOK STICKERS!

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something Ive made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something youve made in the last week (ish; lets say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things weve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

Mostly line edits, this week, tbh. So many line edits. Change Of...

Uplifting Music Video

Because I dont know about you, but 1 min 35 sec to just chill and listen to uplifting music feels like a necessity today >.<

What have you found on the web this week?

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What I’m Hoping To Achieve (Do You Want A Sneak Peek?)

Wow, the weeks are flashing by this year! Not necessarily a bad thing, with all the global chaos going on.

It does mean I need to get a wriggle on though if Im going to meet all my writing goals for the year