Richard McGowan's Blog: Smashed-Rat-On-Press - Posts Tagged "lithium"

Well... This year, instead of handing out poisonous chemical-laden candy to help rot out your teeth and rev-up your akathisia, we're reining in the official publication date of Mantissa Etherbright's new release, The Maiden Who Turned to Water. Hurray!

This fashionably slim book was scheduled for debut on November 15, but you can now find it freshly minted HERE.

To mark this special day, we're giving away free e-book copies of it to the first 352,128 customers who ask for it. Just drop a note of inquiry with your format preference, and you'll receive in return a pointer to the secret, underground-but-very-cozy, location where you can pick up a copy of your own. Even the e-book contains the same seven internal black-and-white photographs that appear in the lovely paperback edition. Get it today to fill out your Virtual Library... Or, you know, you could get it on paper as well.

As always, Mantissa has asked me to remind you that no cute hedgehogs were harmed in the making of this book.

P.S. While you're sending all of those cards, letters, and private messages of inquiry, don't forget that you could obtain any SROP title in a fancy e-book edition for free merely by asking for it... Just follow the bread-crumbs to the Halloween House of Horrors... Mwahaha...

Once upon a time, just before the world ended on December 21, 2012... Oh, wait, Children, Children... Did you miss that event? That's too bad! *

Anyway... I did most of a NaNoWriMo that year. That is, I drafted from scratch, re-drafted multiply, proofed, designed, and published a novella of about 35,000 words in 20 days. It's called An Uncommon Surfeit of Lipstick. (It is kind of a lesbian romance fairy tale because that's what some of my pseudonymia like to do with their spare gray cells.)

OK, 35,000 words is really about 70% of a NaNoWriMo, I guess. But I'll take a gimme on the other 30% because Awesome Typesetting and Dazzling Design, Woo-Hoo! And it was a rush-job that took about 2/3 of a month.

You could read the book, too, for free, but chances are you won't bother because there are about 2.5 million other distracting books published this year alone.

This month, instead of wri’ mo’, to save what's left of my burned-out brain, I'm gonna Ma Mo’. That is: welcome to the first day of SROP's National Novel Marketing Month. During November 2019, I'll plan to occasionally pop up and tell you about a SROP book, which you could obtain for free if you could find a copy of it ** amongst the other 2.5 million distractions of the year.

Meanwhile, back in Santa Banana, we are still recovering from a truly wild Halloween Night. Casualties: two. Sanguinity accidentally broke the heel of a sparkly pink stiletto and Mantissa pulled a hamstring getting out of her costume at the end of the night. Other than that, no rodents or other mammalian creatures were harmed or mutilated.

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* If you still want to read about the end of the world, you might try cracking open The Girl Who Grew Crutches From Seeds, which does have a chapter encompassing that phenomenonal event, and how it affected the protagonist, Chlorina, and her BFF.

** Not available in stores! Order now exclusively from SROP! Our operators are standing by 24/7 to take your orders!