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Books I’m reading: May Edition

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and plan on doing a lot more. Books I’m reading (note that these are no recommendations. I’m not liking 100% of these):

Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Giles Going Wide Unboxed by Patty Jansen Holly Lisle’s Create a World Clinic by Holly Lisle Let’s Get Digital by David Gaughran Magonia by Mari Dahvana Headley Restore by Vince Antonucci The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Why...

How I Survived My Second Book Signing

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Don’t let that relaxed, calm, and passive face fool you

Me Tackling Fear — On the Radio and in a Crowd

[image error] My sister got me a cute shot glass ^ in honor of CIRCUS IN A SHOT GLASS’s upcoming release!

But before I think about CIRCUS IN A SHOT GLASS, I have to finish getting through this week. If all went well (I’m writing this post on Sunday), I was on the radio yesterday and will try to see if there’s a link to the segment on the station’s website. And tomorrow…is my book signing!

Aaaaaaaack!

It would seem I’m tackling a lot of my fear this week…head-on! I HATE being in crowds and I do not like bei...

Cover Reveal? (Things Heard in a Graveyard)

I’m not entirely sure that this is what I’m going with, but here’s what I’m thinking for my cover. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Should I scrap it and buy some different art?

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Front and back, there it be^ (Sadly, I cannot do anything but color on the spine. I only have Paint to work with for that sort of thing.)

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No word yet on a cover for Circus in a Shot Glass. I imagine there will be news in the next few months. Stay tuned and…

Keep your pen on the page,
Beth

 

Things Heard… Cover Help!

Later this year, after Clean Reads has released Circus in a Shot Glass, I’ll be releasing a novelette (Things Heard in a Graveyard) under a pen name. My editor is all lined up, formatting is looking good. There’s one big thing I’m missing: THE COVER!

Please help me decide on a cover. I have three options so far, and your vote matters. Here is the blurb first (the tone of the book is often humorous with irreverent looks at death and loss):

WHEN HIS ESTRANGED FATHER DIES,
ARYS BOHN MUST COME TO...

One a.m. Drawings

Some weird stuff comes out of my pen in the wee hours of the morning. This is actually normal.

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I Used to be Her Jo

I was writing poetry this (Thursday) evening, and really got myself in a funk. The topic of the poem was a personal look at how a loved one used to see me versus how they see me now. For better and for worse, I’ve changed over the years.

I’m not a good poet, but here’s what I wrote (I stopped writing is because I was getting too emotional.) It’s called I Used to be Her Jo:

I used to be her Jo, Joy

I used to be her Jo

Father didn’t want me

But Marmee loved me so

I never was Pop’s Joe, see

I’m...

Trigger Warnings

Greetings!

It would seem that edits for Circus in a Shot Glass are done! …knock on wood. I mean, I haven’t heard anything, but I’m assuming that they are. But there was something I was wrestling with that I contacted Clean Reads about:

Does my book need a trigger warning?

First, let me explain what a trigger warning is: It’s a label put at the beginning of a book that warns readers of potentially upsetting/disturbing content.

My publisher was fine with me putting one in, so wrote it and sent...

Drawings and Writings

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“Breathing Lessons” by Beth Overmyer

 

So, this past week was a bit of a struggle. I was sick, tired, and had many pages of galley left to proof. But I MADE IT!

Galleys – CHECK
Sickness – LICKED (mostly)
Tiredness – Errrrr…two out of three?

And I picked up the fantasy novel again, the one I’ll someday publish under my pen name (publicly connected with my real name): S.M. Tinker.

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Enough of the random pictures! …Okay, just one more:

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“Pinterest...

A Short History of Lady Catherine Says

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I didn’t know about Jane Austen. I mean, wasn’t she some long-dead author of some novel-book-thingies? Yeah, they sounded too girly. I was a tomboy. So I read lots of good books, mostly genre (which is great!) But until around 2005, I did not know what I was missing.

My friends the Allen family introduced me to the five+ hour BBC version of Pride and Prejudice with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, and I was hooked, I tell you–HOOKED! The characters were fresh, real, vibrant. The costumes were...