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The House Lost at Sea, other news, a Q&A session, and shenanigans!

If you follow us on facebook or read our newsletter, you have read most things in this blog post, human, but there are a few new things we want to tell you about! (There is a new Q&A answer at the bottom of this post for those who have read it on FB or the newsletter already.)

First, I love to sleep on my living bed. The female does a very good job of staying still for my enjoyment.

I thought you might want to know about this critical fact of life.

Now, onto business!

The House Lost at Sea...

Client from Hell: A Magically Hellish Comedy (with a body count) can now be pre-ordered!

Dear humans, please forgive the female. She has a migraine today. She wrote 260 words before she retreated into the dark to sulk. She was required to get out of bed to eat, and she’s not long for this world… at least for today. She even made a new legend in her tracking worksheet so she could mark days she had migraines and couldn’t realistically work.

260 words is better than no words, female. You did good.

See, you did so good I posed for you. Aren’t I adorable?

So, I bet you’re here about...

Building a Productivity Spreadsheet: Step by Step Guide (with pictures.) The Expanded Edition.

Dear humans, As there were a lot of questions and hesitancies about how to build the super fancy productivity spreadsheet, the Furred & Frond Management has decided to help out. By that, we’re going to build a brand new spreadsheet with you. The female was going to do this as a video, but the voice portion isn’t working and she’s not feeling up for fixing it. (It is a headache day.) Please note that we are not offering the spreadsheet for download. By doing so, the female would have to...

For Authors: Building a Productivity Spreadsheet

Dear humans,

The female started posting in-progress pictures of her new spreadsheet today, and as a result I have taken it upon myself to show off her hard work, expose all of her secrets, and teach you how you can build your own productivity worksheet.

Time Investment: 2-10 hours depending on Excel skill level, patience, and tendency to make everything nitpicky perfect. The less pitpicky you are, the faster it’ll go.

The female is developing some nitpicky tendencies, so she’s about three...

Book Reservation form for 20 Books Las Vegas signing (November 13, 2020 at Sam’s Town.)

Greetings, humans! The female has put together a list of books you can reserve for the book signing at Sam’s Town on November 13, 2020. Click, check the ones you want, and closer to the time of the event, the female will email you with the estimated total for all of your books and instructions on how to pick your books up at the signing!

You won’t pay for any of the books until the signing itself, and should you not be able to attend the signing or no longer want the books, it’s not an issue....

Witch & Wolf Sale plus a Book Fair!

Greetings, humans!

Witch & Wolf: The Complete Series is on sale for $0.99. It contains four of the female’s older books, which are Inquisitor, Winter Wolf, Blood Diamond, and Silver Bullet. They have recently undergone some polish and have been given chapter names.

It will return to its full price of $9.99 at the end of tomorrow, so if you like werewolves and the female’s oddballed sense of humor, now’s a good time to get your paws on this set–or gift it to a friend in need of werewolves.

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The Female will be at 20Books in Las Vegas November 10-12, 2020 at Sam’s Town. She will be at the signing on November 13, 2020.

Headline says it all, humans! She’ll be attending the signing on the 13th, so if you’re in the Vegas area, can visit the Vegas area, or otherwise want to meet her, that’s when you’ll want to head over to Sin City for some book fun!

The signing will be huge.

More details to come, including times that day and so on.

In other news, the male took the female out to dinner, and this is what she ate:

It was even better than it looks. It was divine. Don’t ask about the bill. (They both agreed it was...

Stuff, Stuff, Stuff, and More Stuff.

Dear humans,

The female is tired. She hasn’t written any new words in two days, as she’s been doing all of those things required to finalize books for publication. In good news, The House Lost at Sea is finished. Hooray!

In bad news, she’s still scrambling to get other stuff done, including some polishing work on older titles. That’s mostly done. (She just needs to name a few more chapters, as she really likes naming the chapters of her books now. It’s an obsession. She might need help.)

We...

The Beard has Returned.

We call the male the Beard because he has a fluffy chin. He has safely returned. However, he is not providing food like males should, and the female is whining because she’s hungry. World might be ending. (World also might be ending because she was up at Dark Thirty to make sure the Beard was awake to go to the airport on time.

Here is a picture of some tasty treats the Beard acquired for the female when she was dealing with a doctor’s appointment. Tasty treats are tasty, and she doesn’t let...

The House Lost at Sea and Other Shenanigans from the Blain Household

Dear humans,

The female has taken to coping with the male’s disappearance via foods the male doesn’t like. Yesterday, she ordered from the Vietnamese place, which is one of her favorite nomnoms. She really loves this nomnoms, humans. She was so excited to go outside and meet another human to retrieve these nomnoms.

Not pictured are two other of those fried rolls that she so loves. They’re very tasty. Also not pictured is the mango slushie with strawberry she also purchased, as the Vietnamese...