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Daily Book Challenge: Day 6

Day 06 – A book that makes you sad

The Works of Hans Christian Anderson (Matchstick Girl, The Little Mermaid)

I wasn’t sure how to answer this at first – I thought about something like Les Miserables or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and I was leaning towards Phantom of the Opera (book form only!) but the thing is, they don’t particularly make me sad. I was going to say how many it’s just that I escape through fiction and no matter what the character is going through – I’d rather be in their worl...

Pitch to Cassie, and some other Agents/Editors

If you have a manuscript that’s looking for a home, you can check out the infohere- I can’t attest to anyone besides Cassie, who is our senior editor with Champagne (Burst is an imprint, if you were unaware). Of course, you can always just hit the slush pile at Champagne any time, but I’ve always had better luck getting attention when people were saying, “Throw stuff at me.”

And yes, I’ll do the daily book challenge. Later. I have to get ready and go to work now.

Daily Book Meme: Day 5

Day 05 – A book that makes you happy

Whaaaat? It’s not my first book – it’s the first that someone thought actually had going for it though. As much as I might kvetch about how I suck or how I want to be like such and such, the fact that I got this baby out there and I didn’t have to compromise too much, I’m content. Course, getting this marketing down without looking pathetic, that’s still in the works.

Daily Book Challenge: Day 4

Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series

Apparently I should read ahead and plan before picking six different series. How about, here’s 10 series I like, and I tell you my favorite and briefly why?

The Song of the Lioness Quartette – Alanna: The First Adventure

Normally, first titles in a sequence have a tough job. From my own experience, you not only have to hook your reader almost from the get-go, you have to build your world (moreso in science-fiction, fantasy, and historical pieces) bu...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 3

Day 03 – Your favorite series

Okay, I have really no idea how to answer this one. My first thought was the series that I’m reading, but I haven’t finished them yet. My next thought was that I love long book series – I know, I should finish one before starting another – I love it when an author moves me out of a three-act structure. And I think three-act structures work very well, but I like variety.

So, here’s some of my favorite series, both finished and currently reading, that I like. I can’t...

Daily Book Challenge: Day 2

Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times

I’m going to limit this as to the only time I refer to C.S. Lewis – quite frankly, he’s preaching to the choir, and while I don’t agree with him 100% on everything he does (quite frankly, I am Christian but I find several of Narnia’s books rather tedious and obvious) I also quite enjoy exploring philosophy and rhetoric in prose.

That, and I like unreliable narrators. Obviously, this narrator is so over-the-top obvious I don’t even know if we ca...

30 Day Book Meme: Day 1

So I was stalking on goodreads and I found someone doing a daily challenge – I figure hey: It’ll get me back into the groove of updating regularly. I know: I should be doing Top 10 Tuesdays, so I’ll probably work those in as well.

Day 01 – Best book you read last year

I first heard about Octavia E. Butler on a list of POC science-fiction and fantasy writers, and she was the only one I never heard of.

WHY DID I NEVER HEAR OF HER BEFORE??? WHY DID IT TAKE ME ALMOST THIRTY YEARS TO DISCOVER THIS WO...

I shouldn’t whine about how hard promo is and never update, heh

To be fair though, the WOTI site keeps me busy, but I think I’m going to have to pick something to keep me regular here.

Not at When Words Collide this year – I know, I said I was gonna go, but something came up at the last minute and I pulled out – but apparently things are going very well in accordance to the people I know who are going, so hopefully life will calm down a bit next summer. I have a ton of work to get done before Comic Con anyway. But if you happen to be in the Calgary area –...

777 Meme Continues/Busy Summer

I’m on the last day of my vacation this lovely day – I’m on a 4 on/4 off, hence the going back for the weekend – my apologies for not posting, I’ve been trying to orchestrate other things and get other work done, not to mention basically just taking off and enjoying this glorious, albeit humid, weather. I have another 12 days off at the end of summer – life is good when you can bank overtime – but let’s just say that my ‘Summer Reading’ is probably going to have to wait a bit longer. There ar...

777 Challenge / Sci-Fi Fangirl Cometh

So fellow Burst author Audra Middleton had an idea for a meme – for as many days as possible for the month of July, we over atWorlds of the Imagination and as many guests as we can, are posting WIP’s of a speculative nature – but only seven lines, on page seven or seventy-seven seven lines down. I cheated because the scene in question is short but it’s close enough.

And in case you’re wondering, yes, Champagne/Burst is based out of High River, which is apparently the worst place effected by th...