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2021 Writing Productivity Spreadsheet

Dear humans,

The female has created an updated 2021 Writing Productivity Spreadsheet. This is the thing she uses to help manage her projects and keeps her on track. If you’re an author, please enjoy and make use of this. You can access it here.

If you like it, you can toss pennies in the female’s jar by buying some of her books. There are links on the project master list page within the spreadsheet.

We understand people will take this, make adjustments, etc. We’re just sharing what ...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 5 plus a release date and news regarding Booked for Kidnapping.

Dear humans,

We are pleased to announce the next Vigilante Magical Librarians book will be titled Booked for Kidnapping, and it will be available at all major retailers for $5.99 on September 7, 2021.

You can preorder now at Amazon. Other vendors will be available soon. (Within the next 72 hours.)

Before there is any panic that this is a preorder, the female felt it necessary to make sure her extended vacation (taken between May 2021 and August 2021) actually comes to an end. Basic...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 4.

Dear humans,

The smoke is more gray than orange today. We assume this is good. We do not assume the air outside is precisely breathable, so we are avoiding the evil outdoors.

The male purchased the female the best tacos she has ever eaten in her life yesterday. This is what they looked like:

If you live in the Cupertino area, the taco truck is located on the corner of Stern and Stevens Creek Boulevard in the parking lot of the gas station next door to the 7-11, across the street fro...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 3.

Dear humans,

We have returned. Again. The sky is a little orange here, the air is clogged with smoke, and the female is feeling a bit murderous today. As such, we are limiting our general commentary, as nobody needs us bad mooding all over the place (even more than the female has already bad mooded all over the place today.)

So, let’s get this show on the road!

Forever Marked by Rinna Ford. (Book 4 of The Marked Series.)

Genre: Paranormal Romance.

Emelia thought claiming her cast...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 2.

We do really like colored smoke, humans.

Dear humans,

It is day two of the ‘thank you’ book faire! Thank you to the kind authors who took the time to share Booked for Murder and A Chip on Her Shoulder to their readers. We do really appreciate it!

As mentioned yesterday, we have not read any of the books in this faire, so please judge for yourself if you will like the book. Read the sample, see if the book appeals to you! If you have read any of the books, please feel free to slide into ...

A ‘Thank you’ Book Faire, Day 1!

Dear humans,

We like how pretty smoke can be, so we have used this picture of colored smoke.

A bunch of kind and generous humans helped share Booked for Murder and A Chip on Her Shoulder recently, so we are putting together a book faire as a thank you to those kind individuals!

Please note that unless we say otherwise, we have not read these books. (And we might be shopping right alongside you!) As such, we have not done any checks on them beyond content advisories, which were given to ...

A Chip on Her Shoulder has Released!

Dear humans,

After a deal with loan sharks sours, Darlene’s brother is permanently transformed into a chipmunk. Not one to accept impossibility as a good excuse for failure, she’s determined to rescue her brother and secure revenge against those who’d poisoned him with grade-a transformatives.

If she wants to perform a miracle, she’ll need to join forces with a divine, but the man upstairs and his angels refuse to help.

None of the other so-called benevolent divines are willing to h...

Updated Release Dates: Wild Wolf and The Flame Game

Wild Wolf’s new release date is now January 19, 2021. This will be updated and announced to vendors soon.

Assuming I get approval from a booked promoter, The Flame Game will also be rescheduled for the end of November. Expect November 24 for the Flame Game, but it has not been confirmed yet. If the promoter cannot reschedule everything, it will have to stay for October, but I tried.

I’m tired, so I’m spreading things around a little.

Sorry.

Yes, the Female is Human. Surprise.

Insert sarcasm font here.

Things the female is not:

PerfectCapable of withholding important (to her) opinionsNice (well, some of the time.)Tolerant of livelihood being threatened by anonymous strangers, probably with zero qualifications as an editorA machine (The female really, really hates being called a machine. It instantly triggers depression.)

Things the female is:

TiredDepressedAnxiousStressedUnhappy

Things the female has considered the past few days:

Quitting (because wo...

Amazon’s “Report Issues” Tool: Why, After Catnapped, R.J. Blain/Pen & Page Publishing Titles may be Unpublished from Amazon… and What You can do to Help.

Hey, folks. R.J. here.

Rather than give you an impersonal cats’ eye view of a rather troublesome problem I’m facing, I have the wheel on the blog for today.

I am strongly considering, after the release of Catnapped, pulling all of my titles from Amazon. Right now, there is a plague of “armchair editors” who are reporting issues on Amazon, which result in quality notices and threats of book suppression (AKA, our books are pulled from sale) if we do not adhere to the editing recommendations ...