Business first! This just in from Tantor Audiobooks!
To celebrate Barnburner‘s fifth year as an audiobook, Tantor is knocking 75% off of cover price, which means you can get this fine cozy mystery set in Maine, written by Sharon Lee, narrated by Traci Odom for only $4.00.
The sale ends on July 12.
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I strung my lights. I couldn’t make Plan A, over the bookshelves, work, so we’ve gone with Plan B. Of course. Plan B being over the windows. It will be fine.
Paid the bills and accounted them, and getting ready to pour a glass of wine and sit down with my headset and my tablet and see if I can’t reconcile their sudden differences.
Everybody have a good evening. Stay safe. Stay strong.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
Breakfast was half a blueberry muffin, with a side of cottage cheese; tea. The idea that I had no idea what I was going to eat for lunch woke me up, which seems unfair, though, really, it was almost 8.
Went to sleep listening to Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day — the chapter where she Speaks with Tony at the cocktail party, which is — so much fun.
I have a haircut scheduled for 11, so I have to decide if I want to keep my hair at what passes for “long” nowadays, or if I want to chop it all off until it stands up in terror. I will before that time of reckoning refresh the cat’s on-demand bar and perform my other duty to their felineships.
I have a chiropractor’s appointment at 3, and in-between I shall be continuing my solo game of chapter jigsaw, which is necessary because I find Good Solid Blocks of Narrative Here, and then There, and then Over Here, and Then — is boring, flat, and annoying. I’m aware of the complaint of our books that there are too many characters in too many places, doing too much, but — nobody wants a bored author. At least, I don’t want a bored author, so here we are. Chapter jigsaw to mix things up and keep them interesting.
What’re y’all doing today that isn’t boring?
I’m afraid I have to take back to the professional photo place at least 3 of the copies they made for me (so that I didn’t have to cut up the originals to make a collage). I knew the quality of the copies could not exactly match the old originals, a few of which were really rather poor to begin with. However, using the autocorrect feature on the copies apparently tweaked the skin tones into some alien from outer space attempting to look human. You would think the professionals would have noticed this (well, I would have thought they would) and not tried to pass them off as acceptable. I’d rather have the colors–and even the fuzziness–match the originals than try to be “better” like this.
Ahhhhh, but I love books with many characters! Especially when so many of them are related. I love watching the extended family come together and move apart as their various Necessities demand. I do have my favorites that I long to read more of (Daav, Val Con anyone?), but I sincerely have not found any character that I didn’t want or enjoy reading about–well, not the Department of the Interior, but that is a given. So often my reading preferences are out of step with what is deemed Acceptable or Preferable. Cue my immense delight when I found your world!!!
I love the many characters, in many places, doing many things, and then coming together to solve or celebrate!
It is one of the best things for me. I can get bored with a series that has less than 3 “voices”.
Those people can complain, but they’re wrong 🙂