R.J. Blain's Blog, page 38

Unawakened has Released, banned from facebook, and the move from hell…

The cats are too tired to write anything today, so you get the super duper grouchy human today.

The movers beyond sucked. They sucked so bad they managed to trash the apartment they were moving us out from, including damaging the property, PLUS destroy a lot of things, including several family heirlooms. To add insult to injury, we’ve done at least eight runs with our super big pickup truck.

This pickup.

Yeah. Let’s just say I left a scathing review. We have to go back tomorrow to t...

Plaidypus: a Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) Coming December 21, 2021! Warning: contains a minimum of two Canadians and a magical adventure to Australia.

After a close encounter of the hotspot kind, Nadine’s paws are full figuring out how to feed her thirsty vampire of a brother, trying to convince the CDC she actually can be a shapeshifter infected with the lycanthropy virus, and dodging the pack of crazy women out for her blood—or her brother’s body.

She’s not sure if they want her or her brother, but she doesn’t want to find out.

Nadine knows one thing for certain: her backwater town is too small for everybody coming to pay her famil...

The Female has Officially Lost it.

Dear humans,

Do you see this can?

The female walked over a mile for this can. “If I exercise for 20 minutes, I can have a v8!” she exclaimed. With much excitement. This can, this thing filled with vegetables, somehow has raised itself up to be the equivalent of catnip or something.

She has 48 bribes of these cans, 1 of which she has earned. She walked over a mile for a can of dead vegetables preserved in salt.

Humans are strange.

The female has talked a lot about health, disab...

News Re: Kobo & Kobo Plus (Subscription reading service)

Greetings, folks!

I (R.J., as the kitties are busy sleeping because they’re lazy) have some general news for you regarding Kobo! A lot of it is good, especially for those who are on a tight budget.

So, I’ll just plow through this so y’all can get back to your Friday night.

1: Don’t panic if you notice some books go offline from Kobo for a day or two. I’m in process of finishing transferring books from a distributor to directly with Kobo. Once the process is started, it should only t...

Let’s talk about abled vs disabled for a few minutes.

A beloved friend sent me a surprise dragon skull! It’s PINK. I very much love it. It is made out of pink Aragonite, which was mined in Brazil.

This is a repost from the R.J. Blain facebook page, but I (the author) felt it was worth repeating. A few notes before I begin:

1: Nothing specifically triggered this beyond a general awareness (and a tendency to roll my eyes) over the inclusion of criticism the books are too repetitive for their liking.

I am not at all upset or bothered by t...

Booksniffer: a new (and kind of entertaining) book app.

Dear humans,

The female is being amused by a new app that is currently in the works. Booksniffer’s icon, admittedly, made her giggle, which led to her poking and prodding at it. Here is a screenshot of it in action.

To join the fun, you can go to the Google Play or Apple Store doohickeys and download it, then just plug rj blain into the search box, and it’ll pull up a place for you to check out the books and follow me. You can also see stuff here, too. As I’m always game to try new thi...

Let’s Talk about Chronic Pain & Mental Illness.

Dear humans,

Please forgive the clutter under the female’s desk. It’s very difficult for her to get under there to clean. Earlier today, we brought up health problems, life, the universe, and generally everything. Someone commented about how the female’s symptoms were in line with fibromyalgia.

This is ridiculously common. We can’t shake a stick over how many times people automatically assume pain, anxiety, and depression somehow equate to suffering from fibromyalgia.

We’ve, frankly...

Book Faire plus News from the Trenches!

Meet the female’s new chair. This is Baby. Blue Boy, Baby’s 2 week old predecessor, went to the Great Chair Graveyard in the sky due to a manufacturing defect. It tried to dump the female’s not-so-small ass directly onto the hydraulic pole of death, doom, and nooooooooooos.

No females were hurt during the exchange of the chairs.

Blue Boy was a nice chair, and the female dodged death from chair hydraulic pole thanks to most of the seat opting not to bust its seam.

The female’s Saturd...

And because it can always get worse…

No, Client from Hell should not be releasing on Kobo tomorrow. There was a technical glitch, and while I’ve attempted to fix it, customer service has not gotten back to me.

As such, kobo readers may get a preorder file tomorrow. It does not have the book, because I pushed the book’s date back to the 27th of JULY because I couldn’t have the book done by now without killing myself.

So, that’s ‘fun.’ Not.

There’s like not even any make-goods I can do on this because it was a stupid error. Annnd, t...

New Audiobooks Available at Authors Direct!

Greetings, folks!

The female, AKA RJ, here. The cats are sleeping, and frankly… I’m way too tired today to help the felines manage the keyboard. So, I’ll just get onto the chase.

You can find the new audiobooks here. This should automagically sort from newest to oldest to help you locate the new titles. (I hope.) If you want a list of other vendors you can acquire the audiobooks at, here is a list of the new audiobooks below. The audiobooks should also be available at chirp (the ones that ...