Beth Bishop's Blog, page 7
October 4, 2015
I Learned A Lot About Myself From A Dead Guy
As I teacher, I try to learn from my experiences. At times, the lessons are so blatant that I take immediate pause and think, “This is a teaching moment. What have I learned here?”
For example, when you’re fourteen and walking down The Strip in Panama City Beach, you don’t hitchhike, no matter how sore your feet are, especially when the offer is from a carload of forty-something, mostly toothless men in a rusted-out Ford Crown Vic. You absolutely do not trust your brother when he tells you to...
October 3, 2015
What A Surprise
For the last two months, things have been a little…weird with the publisher of my Camellia books, and now I know why. The former CEO sold the company. The messages we are getting from the new owners are very encouraging, and it looks like Eternal Press and Damnation Books will now be imprints of a larger publishing company that will provide a much wider range of genres, including erotic adult color books (meow). They even plan to make an imprint for YA, which will be good for FAIREST. They pl...
September 28, 2015
Release News
Compass Rosegarten (Camellia book 5) will be available for purchase beginning October 1st. YAY!
Not up to speed on the series? Grab books 1 through 4 fromiTunes or any of these sites:
Eternal Press(all print and ebook formats available; enter code 61NF17DV2LEX at checkout to get 50% off all books)
September 23, 2015
September 21, 2015
Gear Grind
Lately, I’ve laid off Sims 4 in favor of playing Diablo 3 with Fluffy. These weekend level and gear grinds remind me of how we used to do this 9 years ago with Diablo 2, back before Spawn. We’ve had some really good runs lately, and it’s good to be able to bring up new characters when you get bored with your high-level folks. But…grinding for perfect gear is a chore not long left untended. So, I switch back to my monk, start working on finding the one fist weapon I need to max my DPS on the w...
September 18, 2015
Current-day Job
I have a cousin who has an awful life. She has no job. She lives in horrible conditions. Her landlord refuses to replace her broken water heater or fix the holes in her floors. Her van breaks down all the time. Her lawn mower breaks down all the time. Everything breaks down all the time, and she fixes it all herself as best as she can because she likes to learn how things work. That’s good because she has no money for anything.She has two daughters, both over the age of 20. One is in the Army...
September 14, 2015
Inkshares Project
Hi, y’all!
I have a new project up on Inkshares. I wrote an epic fantasy starring a kick-ass psionic warrior. If I get enough pre-orders, Inkshares will publish the novel. Check out the details and the first two chapters here. Then, if you like it and you have the funds, please pre-order it.
Also, the novel is officially in the NerdistCollection competition, so your pre-orderscould help me get published specifically by that them.
As always, I appreciate your support, whether you are a reader...
September 13, 2015
Interviewer Techniques
Marco told me that he tells the same joke to every person his department interviews for professorships:
A man is about to die, and the angel of death says to him, ‘You can see Heaven and Hell first and then decide where you want to spend eternity.’ So the man goes to Heaven. Clouds, harps, people sitting around chatting. It’s pretty boring. Then, he visits Hell. There is a hot tub and music and a bar. People are laughing and having a great time. He says, ‘Okay, I choose Hell.’
When the man di...
September 10, 2015
White Noise
I stood at the pump, smelling the rain come from the west. Big fat rain, the kind that you can walk in and not get wet. It’s been an odd summer, too wetthen too dry. Ancient oaks are falling, and I’m filling my gas tank on my way to buy groceries.
I stood at the pump, hearing snippets of someone’s phone conversation as it drifted from the store’s front to me. I wondered if there were times that my mother went to church just because she needed a break from my brother and me, because she needed...
September 9, 2015
Editorial Aid: My List of Overused and Abused Words
Why I need my list:One thing I have been told repeatedly is to edit the hell out of everything before trying to get it published. This stands to reason, as a manuscript full of typos and incorrect word usage is a turn-off for agents, editors, and publishers.Great, butno one has ever told me how to edit the hell out of something. I figured that grammar and spell checks factored in, but beyond that, I wasn’t sure, and those checks don’t catch everything. Thus, I developeda system for myself, an...
